Interview: Raffael A. Iglesias
Exhibit Name: Prometheus/
Gallery: Peak Gallery/
Dates: April 12 – May 07, 2012
Interview: John Abrams
Exhibit Name: Entertaining Modernism /
Gallery: Loop Gallery /
Dates: March 31 – April 22, 2012
Interview: Radoslaw Kudlinski
Blue Republic 12:02 /
Gallery: Katzman Kamen Gallery /
Dates: March 9 – April 7, 2012
Interview: Alex Fischer
Exhibit Name: Beyond The Fall
Gallery: o’born contemporary
Dates: February 4 – March 10, 2012
Interview: John Kennedy
In John Kennedy’s recent exhibition, his usual propensity for abstraction is moved to the more conventional arena of landscape painting, though as he tells interviewer Barbara Isherwood, “I never really set out to become a landscape painter…they sort of evolved that way.”
Interview: Barbara Klunder
In her most recent exhibition, graphic designer-turned-visual artist Barbara Klunder commemorates the 200th anniversary of the war of 1812 with an eclectic mix of papercuts, textiles, and an alphabetic book which tell the story of Canadian war hero Laura Secord. In her interview with Barbara Isherwood, Klunder discusses Secord’s “chocolate problem,” her own reverence for nature and anti-war stance, and the quintessentially Canadian aspects to Secord’s story, saying at 1:47 that “as far as I’m concerned, it’s a great Canadian tale.”
Interview: Otino Corsano
The “Happiness – Part 1” project is a collaborative effort that brings to life the string of images neo-conceptual artist Otino Corsano handpicks from online social media. Neo-conceptualism, the movement his works pay tribute to, create a dialogue with ideas such as anti-commodification, mass media, and social commentary through installation, video, or performance art. His new work delves into the notion of manufactured happiness, deploying the commercial format as his exploration device.
Interview: Jemma Egan
Though she hails from Britain, Jemma Egan is no stranger to service interruptions on the TTC. The long commute from her home to the studio informs her most recent exhibition, “The Space Between Here and There.” The assortment of geometric shapes and found items that comprise the show are plucked– sometimes literally and deliberately, sometimes more figuratively and unintentionally – from objects that form the scenery around her studio in Toronto’s Port Lands.
Interview: Daniel Faria
Already a co-founder of the Clark & Faria Gallery in Toronto’s Distillery District, Daniel Faria has now set his sights on bringing contemporary art to the Bloor and Landsdowne area.
Interview: Howard Podeswa
In his most recent exhibit, Podeswa celebrates his earliest and greatest influence: his father. Yidel Podeswa, a Polish painter and Aushwitz survivor, began painting before the Holocaust devasted Poland’s Jewish community. In our interview, Howard retells the story of how his father’s painting ability actually saved his life, as he was enlisted to paint signs within the concentration camp and therefore spared from death. In Sole of a Shoe: Three Generations of Painting, Howard shows his recent paintings alongside those of his father, which were kept hidden in the family attic for much of Podeswa’s childhood.
Interview: Fausta Facciponte
Salvaged from thrift stores, garage sales and the online market, the dolls featured in Facciponte’s photographic exhibition draw attention to our relationship with objects. The project is an extension of her “Lost and Found” series, an exploration into the transformation of material things that have run their course. Her work is guided and inspired by the Latin phrase, ‘memento mori,’ which translates ‘remember that you are mortal.’ For Facciponte it serves as a reminder that like objects, we are also bound by a temporal existence.
Openig: Robert Bourdeau
Exhibit Name: The Station Point
Gallery: Stephen Bulger
Dates: May 5 – June 11, 2011
Mini Documentary: WOMEN in COMICS
Sarah Lightman is a comics artist, a scholar studying autobiography in comics, and co-curator of the exhibit Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, presented in Toronto by the Koffler Centre of the Arts. Her interests – in both her practice and research – concern the ‘drawn wounds’ that comics expose, the redemptive potential of [...]
Interview: Rafael Goldchain
Exhibit Name: beautifully broken
Gallery: O’Born Contemporary
Dates: March 18 – April 23, 2011
Interview: Caroline deMooy
Artist: Caroline deMooy
Exhibit Name: Visible World
Gallery: KWT contemporary
Interview: Marcus Leatherdale
Artist: Marcus Leatherdale
Exhibit Name: Here and There
Gallery: Propeller Centre
Interview: Andrew James Paterson
Exhibit Name: The Ghosts of Home Entertainment
Gallery: Trinity Square Video
Dates: Thu 17 Feb – Sat 19 Mar 2011
Interview: Kai Chan
Artist: Kai Chan
Exhibit Name: A Spider’s Logic
Gallery: Textile Museum of Canada
Interview: Luis Jacob
Exhibit Name: Pictures at an Exhibition
Gallery: MOCCA
Dates: Feb 04, 2011 – Mar 27, 2011
