Amber Lee Williams / “Embracing Randomness”
Another of the early artist features I produced for The Sound: I sat down with Amber Lee Williams to talk about her artwork and ideas.
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.
Reading The Talk: Wampum, Covenants and History
An exhibition exploring history that is almost collaborative in the approach taken by the artists and curators, centred around the historic Dish with One Spoon treaty. I offer some impressions of the ideas and artworks in RHAC.
Sandy Middleton / a multiplicity of practice
One of the first artist features I produced with The Sound, on the very different bodies of work of Sandy Middleton.
Grimsby Bi Annual 2016 / Regional Contrasts
My response to the 2016 Grimsby Public Art Gallery Bi Annual Exhibition: a diverse show with artists of various calibres.