Valentine’s Monopoly
Illustrator Kuo-Cheng Liao created this Monopoly Valentine’s version as
J Walters
I curate visual arts under The Art Junkie banner
2019 awards honour artists & storytellers
Quebec glass artist Susan Edgerley is the recipient of the 2019 Saidye Bronfman Award, highest distinction in Canadian fine craft artistry. She is one of eight artists honoured today in the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Nordic Animals
Illustrator and designer Shunsuke Satake creates warmth in his digital creations with a limited but striking color palette. Based in Japan, this artist’s focus is stylized living creatures.
Quick Hits – KETU’ELMITA’JIK
This acrylic piece is just one example of award-winning artist Jordan Bennett’s style. This 44-second video is the work he produced when the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia invited him to create a site-specific wall painting.
Wrong-Handed Artists
Each artist in this Italian-French duo uses his less dominant hand to paint simultaneously on one canvas.
Quick Hits – Discarded Clothing
Textile artist Susan Avishai creates sculpture from deconstructed, discarded clothing. Her work focuses awareness on the exploitative nature of garment manufacture and the enormous problem of textile waste.
