Deconstructed / Reassembled Portraiture: Kim Van Stygeren
Kim Van Stygeren’s portraiture works at Queenston Mile Vineyard are well made contradictions of recycled materials and a strong painterly hand.
Bart Gazzola
Bart Gazzola has published with Canadian Art, Galleries West, FUSE, Hamilton Arts & Letters, BlackFlash, ArtSeen, ti<, Long Exposure, New Art Examiner and Magenta. Past curatorial projects include REGION (Contemporary Saskatchewan Painting) and Personal Geographies (an overview of The Photographers Gallery collection). In 2020 he curated an exhibition of photographs at AIH Studios titled Welland Times Present Times Past.
Gazzola was Editorial Chair of BlackFlash Magazine (3 years), and was the visual arts critic for Planet S Magazine. He held the latter role for more than a decade, publishing reviews about Saskatoon visual arts and the larger community twice monthly.
Since 2015, he's been a frequent contributor to The SoundSTC and is the facilitator of the 5 x 2 Image Makers Conversations, through Rodman Hall Art Centre. He's been a contributor / editor at Curated by the Covert Collective since late 2020.
In conversation: Jon Shaw and Transfigurement
Jon Shaw’s exhibition of new work at NAC documents the devolution of the former General Hospital on Queenston Street in St. Catharines, in both an artistically and socially engaging manner.
Collected Art Writing Challenges from New Art Examiner
A collection of selected writings I published with New Art Examiner, as part of their Writing Challenges. A contributor would suggest an artwork or idea, and we’d all write approximately 250 words on the artwork or topic.
Be[e]ing & Seeing: Compounding Visions
Charmaine Lurch’s exhibition Compounding Vision at the Riverbrink Art Museum offers visual metaphors for how we understand – or ignore – history.