Avery Mikolič- O’Rourke’s aesthetic of image and time
Avery Mikolič- O’Rourke’s aesthetic of image and time is the focus of this 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.
Why I am difficult, so often: a response to hatred and hate mail
Your intrepid #artcriticfromhell does not suffer fools, let alone gladly, and ignorance gets slapped down hard. This is about my handling of a troll on behalf of a writer for The SoundSTC.
Conor Mac Neill’s Tall Tales (and Tails)
Conor Mac Neill’s exhibition Canadian Myths and Legends appeals both to adults and children, playing upon stories that we heard as children and that still resonate with us, and this place, now.
I’ll be your mirror: Alejandro Cartagena’s Presidential Selfies
Alejandro Cartagena’s exhibition A Presidential Guide to Selfies explores issues of propaganda and politics in an exhibition in the VISA gallery that is relevant both regionally and internationally.