After Batoche: the paintings of Brian Kon
Brian Kon’s paintings at the Welland Library are more historicl than about aesthetics, in being inspired by Indigenous and Métis narratives.
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.
The Road to Tepeyac: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Alinka Echeverria’s exhibition The Road to Tepeyac is an engaging and empathetically charged installation that is socially relevant on numerous levels.
More calendar than quality: the mediocrity and mythology of Lawren Harris in Where the Universe Sings
The recent film about Lawren Harris has taken on the quality of hagiography, similar to general attitudes about the Group of Seven in larger Canadian society. I offer a response to both the film and this mythology here.
Rust Belt Wonderland
Some thoughts on Bas de Groot’s Welland Memorial and how it evokes personal memories and how it exists in the larger Welland ‘post industrial’ environment.