RP2 @ NAC
Ready Player Two, at NAC, is a diverse and entertaining collaboration by Brendan Tang and Sonny Assu: I spent some time in the environment they created and offer these responses.
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.
Twins, doppelgängers and fetchs
Up Close & In Motion invites repeat visits and consideration of the works and how they engaged with each other. I offer one place to stand when interacting with the current offerings of this ongoing curatorial selection from Rodman’s permanent collection.
Dennis Tourbin : October Fragments
Dennis Tourbin’s October Fragments (from Up Close & In Motion) is a work that offers both historical and regional commentary on what, to some, is history and others still understand as a lesson for contemporary times.
The Painted Drawings of Tony Calzetta
Some thoughts on Tony Calzetta’s work, based on our conversations when I’ve visited AIH Studios in Welland.