I curate visual arts under The Art Junkie banner and I practice my writing on Colder by The Lake.
Vancouver artist Ivea Baklane paints vivid colours and shapes with a vibrancy reminiscent of David Hockney. The Latvian-born artist, who has an MFA, comes from a family of artists, and exhibited in Riga, Berlin, Prague and Rome before immigrating to Canada in 2002.
Few shots can match the appeal of a well executed sequence photograph, such as this work by Vancouver-based Scott Serfas. Or the one below, by Jonatan Nylander of Sweden “Sequence photography is a technique of shooting a series of images in where the subject is captured in successive […]
Tokyo based freelance illustrator Yoshie Kondo gets minimalism (and colour and line) exactly right in these selections from a huge portfolio of travel sketchbooks. (Click image for larger view)
Dominique Fortin maintains her dream-like style in recent works at Thompson Landry in Toronto. (Fortin’s works reflecting childhood themes were featured previously on The Art Junkie, here)
Sarah Carlson is a painter, video and installation artist who recently completed her MFA at OCAD University. These are from her Gardens and Grottoes series, some of them on exhibition in a group show at Red Head Gallery this weekend.
Ceramic sculptor Jason Walker explores how technology influences and molds our perceptions of nature, the latest circuit in his long-standing interest in the natural world.
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