Shelter vs Symbolism / The Tent Project at GPAG
John Notten’s The Tent Project succeeds in some ways, fails in others, but offers an interesting symbol that has an historical, and contemporary, power.
Writers’ Blocks: Sheldon Rooney’s visual library
Niagara based artist Sheldon Rooney’s work in Up Close and In Motion at Rodman Hall is a visual library executed in woodcuts. I offer a more literary response than usual, to this citation of significant authors.
Goodbye Rubberhead / Geography, Memory and Canadiana at Rodman Hall
In this version of Up Close and In Motion at Rodman Hall, Assistant Curator Emma German shares a work by a Canadian Art icon – John Boyle – of another Canadian Icon, Stompin’ Tom Connors. I offer some ideas of history and Canadiana, and how we came to be where we are now.
“The bottom is a really interesting place” / A conversation with artist Bevan Ramsay
Bevan Ramsay and I exchanged some questions and thoughts on his work at Niagara Artists Centre, Lesser Gods, from his collaborators to his concepts.