Kintsugi: A Contemplative Whole
Bruno Capalongo offers meditative works at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery that explore beauty in frailty, and beauty in that which is damaged.
MacDonald’s Menagerie at NAC
Melanie MacDonald’s Florida Noir, in the Dennis Tourbin Gallery at Niagara Artists Centre, is another example of how she’s one of the finest painters in the region. We talked about her influences and I offer some impressions of the works on display.
Owning Space: Material Girls
An exhibition about “women taking up space” that, in its latest iteration in Rodman Hall, is the best installation I’ve seen of a show that mixes politics, aesthetics and history.
Of Masks and Metamorphosis: Clelia Scala
Another in my ongoing Artist Feature series, I sat down with Clelia Scala to talk about her multi faceted, performative works and the ideas that shape them, and make them come alive.