Part 8. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
A further update on Brock University and Rodman Hall, specifically as regards the position of Director of RHAC.
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.
In the Soil 2017: your intrepid #artcriticfromhell’s purely subjective synopsis
Your intrepid #artcriticfromhell offers a mad round up of my wonderful experience of In The Soil.
Peculiar Practices in Grimsby & Beyond
Tony Calzetta’s work at the GPAG is massive and stands somewhere between signage and symbol, between painting and postering. I visited the show with Geoff Farnsworth, and our conversations turned into this article.
Denouement (the outcome of a complex series of events) / Rodman Hall
Some thoughts on several of the works in the Brock Unviersity Department of Visual Arts Honours Exhibition from your intrepid #artcriticfromhell.