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.

MacDonald’s Menagerie at NAC

Melanie MacDonald’s Florida Noir, in the Dennis Tourbin Gallery at Niagara Artists Centre, is another example of how she’s one of the finest painters in the region. We talked about her influences and I offer some impressions of the works on display.

An exhibition about “women taking up space” that, in its latest iteration in Rodman Hall, is the best installation I’ve seen of a show that mixes politics, aesthetics and history.

Another in my ongoing Artist Feature series, I sat down with Clelia Scala to talk about her multi faceted, performative works and the ideas that shape them, and make them come alive.

Norval Morrisseau was an artist whose influence and importance can’t be overestimated. Welland Museum displayed several of his works as part of their Canada 150 programming, and I offer some thoughts on the work and the man, and his legacy.

Bart Gazzola

MacDonald’s Menagerie at NAC

Owning Space: Material Girls

Of Masks and Metamorphosis: Clelia Scala

Thunderbirds in Welland

The A Word