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.

Sesquicentennial Divide

The Grimsby Public Art Gallery offers a nuanced conversation between two artists from their collection (Carl Beam, Frederick Hagan) that, in light of #Canada150 events in this country, offeres more questions than answers. An engaging and smart show.

An exhibition that seems banal, boring and not at all appropriate when talking about culture. But after an amazing walk through and talk with Curator Marcie Bronson, the show took on a very different and very interesting flavour.

Further updates on the Rodman Hall / Brock University situation.

Geoff Farnsworth was one of the first artists I met here in Niagara, and his portraits are among some of the finest I’ve seen, combining both a strong sense of his sitters and a distinctive style that is both intense and yet seems to enhance the portrait. Another of my ongoing Artist Features.

Bart Gazzola

Sesquicentennial Divide

Part 7. Experienced, and Expunged, Voices

Farnsworth: The Figure is More Than it Seems

The A Word