#artcriticfromhell | arts writer & curator | I take pictures of what's left when the world ends
The first of a two part exhibition of the BFA graduates from the MIWSFPA at Brock University. I visited it repeatedly with several fellow artists / writers and those conversations became this response.
J.E. Simpson and I met at a “pop up” exhibition of his work in NAC, and found we shared some of the same interests in text and art and the spaces between. I visited his studio and continued the conversation.
A dense exhibition, and Vanessa Dion Fletcher’s multi media work greeted you as you entered the gallery at Rodman, and it often held my attention on my repeated visits. Some thoughts on this work that intersects with performance, video and two dimensional media.
Brendan Fernandes’ Philia may be the most moving, the most evocative and disturbing art work I’ve seen, in recent memory, and it made me rememeber how there is “no point when “then” stops and “now” begins.” An amazing initial artwork, from the Rodman Hall Collection, to start off Assistant Curator Emma German’s year long series Up Close and In Motion.