I curate visual arts under The Art Junkie banner and I write from time to time on Colder by The Lake. I am an accredited facilitator for Amherst Writers & Artists, which runs not-for-profit writing workshops.
Robyn Cumming’s ever evolving and sometimes disturbing work is featured at next month’s Photorama, the 25th anniversary of the Toronto Photographers Workshop annual fundraising exhibit. Her extensive body of work sometimes is a challenge to interpret, something the Toronto-based photo artist acknowledges. There is a strangeness to how […]
Deborah Margo is about to have a prizewinning neighborhood project unveiled in Ottawa, a good time to revisit her fascinating previous installation art. Twice, she’s worked with these sugar-based jawbreaker style balls in exhibits with names as fascinating as her work. The first, Giant Okeydokes 20085, consisted of […]
A film about Wanda Koop’s journey on a Great Lakes freighter is one of the screenings in the Canadian Women Artists Documentary Series at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax. The films offer intimate portraits of four notable contemporary Canadian women artists: Koop, Shuvinai Ashoona, Annie Pootoogook and […]
The small heads and long limbs of the figures in Gordon Wiebe’s collages identify his widely used work.The bold characters illustrate books, magazines, newspapers, journals and ad campaigns worldwide, including the surface of a 25-story building in Taipei. “His distinctive characters have elongated limbs and bulky patchwork torsos, […]
Two of Canada’s most iconic paintings are centerpieces in a major exhibit at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery aimed at introducing the revered Group of Seven to England. The show is deemed so significant it has prompted British media, including The Daily Telegraph, to send writers to Canada for […]
Thanks to Toronto artist Rachel MacFarlane’s amazing work, Canadian Art Junkie was “Freshly Pressed” today (Nov 3) on the WordPress front page, and in the featured section of Culture. Her exhibit at the Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto runs through Nov. 5, so if you’re in Toronto, go […]
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