June-Etta Chenard: depth and meaning
June-Etta Chenard’s work is both aesthetically and conceptually evocative, and she’s the focus of my latest artist feature.
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.
Laika: the more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog
Victor Vasarely’s Laika, in this iteration of Up Close & In Motion at Rodman, spurs a few thoughts and considerations about art and politics.
Lucia Lakatos: “…impossible to say which was which…”
Lucia Lakatos’s mixed media works at Beechwood Donuts explore assumptions and contradictions about human / animal relations in terms of larger social and environmental issues.
Up Close and In Motion: A year in review
An examination, looking backwards and forwards, of Up Close and In Motion; a year long exploration of the collection of Rodman Hall Art Centre.