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.

Farnsworth: The Figure is More Than it Seems

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.

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Wish You Were Here: 23 Days at Sea

An exhibition at NAC that challenges the idea of space, place and time: “time stands still in travel” was an idea that I brought with me into this show, and the works are as diverse as they are resonant about ‘travelling.’

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