William Griffiths: a history in texture and time / lovely ruins
William Griffiths’ works in the Dennis Tourbin space are engaging images of the industrial wasteland, and we talked about his work and aesthetic.
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.
Artist Profile: Kate Mazi
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.
Case Closed at the NAC
Some impressions and responses to Case Closed at the Dennis Tourbin space at NAC, with work by Katie Mazi, Matt Caldwell, Jenn Judson and Alexandra Muresan.
A Painted History at Rodman Hall
I offer some impressions of Stuart Reid’s curatorial project A Painter’s Country at Rodman Hall.