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.
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.
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.
konkreet vizual pome: bill bissett
bill bissett’s lunarian life at NAC is a show that, to paraphrase a fellow arts writer, is queer as in odd, and queer as in gay. A major influence in Canadian poetry and cultural spheres, I offer some reactions to bissett’s painted works.
Artist Profile: Matt Caldwell
I talk with Matt Caldwell, a young painter living in Niagara, in another of my ongoing Artist Features for The SoundSTC.