Full Fathom Five Flattened: Kurt Swinghammer’s Melt at NAC
I offer some ideas and reactions to Kurt Swinghammer’s eerie and evocative landscapes at Niagara Artists Centre, part of In The Soil 2018
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.
Contemplation and Consideration: Up Close & In Motion at RHAC
Former Assistant Curator Emma German and I sit down and talk about the current iteration of Up Close and In Motion, Slow Art Day and the past – and future – versions of the show as the year long exploration of Rodman Hall’s collection takes on a new form.
Obscured and overt, obvious and implied / Amber Lee Williams’ (un)hidden at the VISA
Amber Lee Williams, a prolific interdisciplinary artist in Niagara, walks me through her graduating exhibition at the VISA Gallery.
More than surface: Just Resting Your Eyes at Rodman Hall
The first of a two part exhibition of the BFA graduates from the MIWSFPA at Brock University. I visited it repeatedly with several fellow artists / writers and those conversations became this response.