Diverse Transformations
The latest iteration of the annual St. Catharines Juried Exhibition is both a visually evocative and conceptually engaging exploration of the theme of Transformations.
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.
Sheldon Rooney: a carnival of colour and motion
Sheldon Rooney is a prolific artist who works in a varity of media, and in this artist feature, he offers a preview of his upcoming exhibition at NAC.
Thompson’s we know more now: experience rendered in mark-making
Bruce Thompson is presenting a new body of work, all about experience and memory in mark making, at Rise Above Restaurant in downtown St. Catharines.
A Fall Update: What About Rodman Hall?
There’s been several serious developments in the relationship between Brock University and Rodman Hall this past Summer. Your intrepid #artcriticfromhell puts on his hip waders and offers this update.