Painting Physically: Evolving Legacies
Evolving Legacies features three artists (Matt Bahen, Cynthia Chapman and Kyle Clements) who work in very different, yet also very similar ways,
Canadian Art
Opaque and Obtuse: more light than heat
more light than heat is an exhibition that fails to offer the necessary context for the ideas to be fully communicated, with formal and conceptual issues.
Painting Modernity
Modern Masters at the Gallery at 13th Street Winery is a large, diverse show that explores both the successes and failures of painting within a primarily abstract framework.
More calendar than quality: the mediocrity and mythology of Lawren Harris in Where the Universe Sings
The recent film about Lawren Harris has taken on the quality of hagiography, similar to general attitudes about the Group of Seven in larger Canadian society. I offer a response to both the film and this mythology here.