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.
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.
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.
‘Despair is the damp of hell’ (Donne) / Käthe Kollwitz: Art and Life
Käthe Kollwitz: Art and Life is a beautiful yet harrowing exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the first of three exhibitions showcasing the works of this significant artist.
Meet me at the Curtain Call
An new installation of artwork in the public sphere in downtown St. Catharines by Lilly Otašević blends formal elegance and historical relevance.