#artcriticfromhell | arts writer & curator | I take pictures of what's left when the world ends
This September – October 2026 features an exhibition in the main space at Mahtay Café & Lounge in Downtown St. Catharines that offers curated (by myself) artworks from the St. Catharines Art Association.
Amy Friend’s exhibition Leave a Light on For Me is on view at the Riverbrink Art Museum this summer (2026) and I offer some thoughts on the engaging show.
Melissa Cammisuli | THE EVOLUTION OF A HOMEBODY was on view at Mahtay Café & Lounge in Downtown St. Catharines for the month of August 2026.
I offer some thoughts about the exhibition Echoing: Susan Barton-Tait, Natalie Hunter and Corine van Hoeve at the Old Fire Hall at 16 Towpath Street in downtown Thorold : this is a presentation of the Rodman Art Institute of Niagara.
The June – July 2026 exhibition at Mahtay Café & Lounge in Downtown St. Catharines is WILLIAM SHERWOOD | FINE ART. He’s a Niagara – based visual artist who works in a variety of media.
Joe Gottli | HIDDEN ST. CATHARINES SPORTS is on view in downtown St. Catharines for May 2026.
Some thoughts about James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly.
Jon Shaw’s exhibition PERIPHERY is on view in downtown St. Catharines for the month of April 2026.
The exhibition in the main Mahtay space (from mid February to mid March 2026) is PANDEMIC PAIN – tings | Kevin Sloggett.
In Living Colour by Laurie Morrison was on display at Mahtay Café & Lounge in Downtown St. Catharines for the month of January. It was the first new exhibition of 2026.
The final exhibition of 2025 in the Mahtay main space in downtown St. Catharines is Faybel Eras by Elaine Nesbitt also known as FAYBEL.
TAMARA SUTTON | NEW PAINTINGS is in the main space at Mahtay Café & Lounge in Downtown St. Catharines and will be on display for the month of October 2025. This exhibition marks three years that I’ve been curating the main space.
STACEY CAMP | SELECTED PAINTINGS was on view for the months of August and September 2025 in the downtown St. Catharines Mahtay Café & Lounge main space.
JANGLE[D] – a two person exhibition presenting a variety of sculptural and two dimensional artworks by Susan Low-Beer & Yael Brotman – has been on view at RAIN (Rodman Art Institute of Niagara in downtown St. Catharines) for the majority of the summer of 2025. I offer some thoughts on the artworks and exhibition.
AYOSHA BORK | SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS is on display for the month of July 2025 in downtown St. Catharines at Mahtay Café & Lounge.
LOGIC LOST IN TRANSLATION | Victoria Wallace was on display for the month of June 2025 at Mahtay Café & Lounge in Downtown St. Catharines.
The exhibition during the month of May at Mahtay Café & Lounge in downtown St. Catharines is GABRIELLA JONES | SELECTED PAINTINGS.
Ian Franks | MY BIG GAY ART SHOW was on view in downtown St. Catharines for the month of April 2025 : this is the first solo exhibition by the artist.
KAYLEE DAMBRAUSKAS | WOODLAND FAE SERIES AND SELECTED WORKS was on view for the month of March 2025 in the downtown St. Catharines Mahtay space.
DAVY BAKER | SELECTED WORKS was the first new exhibition of 2025 in downtown St. Catharines and is the first solo show by the St. Catharines artist. This exhibition also marks 25 shows that I’ve curated in the Mahtay main space.
The exhibition SELECTED WORKS | ST. CATHARINES ART ASSOCIATION is on view in the Mahtay Café & Lounge in downtown St. Catharines. This show included 16 artists that I curated from submissions from the members of the STC Art Association.
Chandi Jayawardena’s exhibition BREEZY MOODS was in the main space at Mahtay Café & Lounge in Downtown St. Catharines for the month of November 2024.
Sakeen Rajabalee’s exhibition COLOURS OF THE ISLAND was on view for the month of October 2024 in downtown St. Catharines and marked two full years of my curatorial project in the Mahtay Space.
Carl Rittenhouse & Ryan Rittenhouse | DISSOLVING BOUNDARIES was a two person show in September of 2024. This was a selection of works that were both traditional and digital photography.
Pauline Hall | Selected Paintings was on view at Mahtay Cafe in downtown St. Catharines for August 2024. This was the first exhibition of Hall’s work.
The exhibition CHRIS REILLY | LOVE | LOST | RUINS was on view at AIH Studios | Art Is Hell in downtown Welland through the months of May to mid July 2024.
Tony Calzetta | Peculiar Practices was on view for the month of July 2024 in my continuing series platforming visual artists of Niagara in the downtown of St. Catharines
BARRY SMITH | WHAT’S YOUR STANCE? was on view at Mahtay Café & Lounge in downtown St. Catharines for the majority of the month of May 2024 and into early June.
Robert ‘Bear’ Royal | Landscape, Flora and Fauna was on view for the month of April in my continuing series platforming visual artists of Niagara in the downtown of St. Catharines.
Jerry Lui | Selected Paintings was the fifteenth exhibition in my continuing series platforming visual artists of Niagara in the downtown of St. Catharines.
The exhibition J Grebe | GARDEN CiTY SLEUTHS featured illustrations from his latest graphic novel and was the 14th exhibition in the Mahtay space.
Geoff Farnsworth| Selected Paintings was on view from early December until the end of January 2024.
Tamara Sutton | Selected Works was the second to last exhibition of 2023, and was the twelfth exhibition mounted in the Mahtay space in Downtown St. Catharines.
The exhibition that marked a year anniversary of my curatorial project in downtown St. Catharines was Matthias Friedrich Bork a.ka. MABO | POETRY WITHIN COLOUR.
Chris Alic & Amber Lee Williams | Transience of Memory is the tenth in my ongoing curatorial series focusing on Niagara based artists. This exhibition grew out of a conversation with the artists at a past 5 x 2 Visual Conversations.
The August 2023 exhibition at Mahtay Cafe in downtown St. Catharines is Mary Ivison | SPACE, PLACE & SPIRIT. This is the ninth in my continuing series featuring Niagara visual artists.
The July exhibition at Mahtay Cafe – as part of my continuing series in downtown St. Catharines focused upon Niagara visual artists – was CHRIS REILLY : LOVE | LOST.
Diane Beard’s exhibition WALKING FROM THE DARKNESS TO THE LIGHT was on display at Mahtay Cafe & Lounge for the month of June, 2023.
Andréa Létourneau’s exhibition WOMEN was on display at Mahtay Cafe & Lounge for the month of May, 2023. This is the sixth in an ongoing series.
ROSS BEARD | A LEGACY OF LIGHT AND THE LOCAL was on view at Mahtay Café & Lounge for the months of March and April 2023, in downtown St. Catharines at 241 St. Paul Street.
TO TEETER-TOTTER ALONE : NEW PAINTINGS BY SYDNEY was on view at Mahtay Café & Lounge for the month of February 2023, in downtown St. Catharines at 241 St. Paul Street.
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.
A selection of images by Gabrielle de Montmollin was on display at Mahtay Cafe (241 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines) in the Fall of 2022. These include works from the series Bird Women, Leading Ladies and Carnevale at the Hotel of the Bridge of Sighs.
Gabrielle de Montmollin is a Welland based artist and co founder of AIH Studios (179 East Main in downtown Welland). This is the second in a series of six exhibitions of Niagara based artists I’m curating in the Mahtay space.
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.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, as I’ve been publishing with several online publications, and curated an exhibition. This is just an update on where to read my writing, right now, and where to experience some projects I’ve been working on.