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.

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.

I talk with Matt Caldwell, a young painter living in Niagara, in another of my ongoing Artist Features for The SoundSTC.

William Griffiths’ works in the Dennis Tourbin space are engaging images of the industrial wasteland, and we talked about his work and aesthetic.

An artist feature – the first I wrote here, in Niagara – on Kati Mazi, an emerging Niagara based artist who works in sculpture, found objects and other interdisciplinary media.

Bart Gazzola

konkreet vizual pome: bill bissett

Artist Profile: Matt Caldwell

William Griffiths: a history in texture and time / lovely ruins

Artist Profile: Kate Mazi

The A Word