#artcriticfromhell | arts writer & curator | I take pictures of what's left when the world ends
Sandy Fairbairn’s exhibition of images of St. Catharines was the third exhibition of six I curated for the Mahtay Café in downtown St. Catharines. It was on display from mid December 2022 to the end of January 2023.
Julianna D’Intino’s Connecting Rods: A Survey of Industry in the Niagara Region, 2015 – 2022 was on display at Mahtay Café & Lounge in their main space in the Fall of 2022.
This was the first in a series of curated exhibitions of Niagara based artists, that I’ve put together to show in the downtown of St. Catharines, beginning in the Fall of 2022 and coming to a close in the Spring of 2023.
I visited the now shuttered Rodman Hall Art Centre site recently, and this brought to mind an old article, about a past exhibition, that played with hauntings and ghosts.
In 2021, I was contacted by the University of Saskatchewan: they are in the process of purging artworks from their collection. This is a brief opinion on the lack of due diligence and ethics that seem to be tainting this, and too many, institutions.