MUSE: Nature in the Urban Core at City Hall
A brief response to MUSE, at City Hall in Downtown STC, highlighting works by Sandy Middleton and Pete Malaguti.
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 can no longer support the Saskatchewan Arts Board
An article responding to the anniverary of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and why I no longer support it, citing instances of incompetence and ignorance by staff that led to my departure from #YXEArts.
Contested Narratives / absence omission redaction / Carry Forward at Rodman Hall
Carry Forward, curated by Lisa Myers, is a show that offers contested narratives by history, and how it continues to be a space of disagreement and dissent today.
Shelter vs Symbolism / The Tent Project at GPAG
John Notten’s The Tent Project succeeds in some ways, fails in others, but offers an interesting symbol that has an historical, and contemporary, power.