Painting
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Tia Halliday – Choreographed Abstractions
Tia Halliday, on exhibit at Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary, uses her dance and performance background as a touchstone for her figurative abstract paintings. Above: Up-Lifting, 2023, acrylic & oil on canvas, 62…
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Amy Dryer – Slight Distortion
Amy Dryer combines line, form and colour to represent and yet slightly distort her subject matter. This technique creates “a field of view that is both familiar and enigmatic,” the Calgary-based artist says.…
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The Bancroft Paintings – Charles Meanwell
In the fall of 2022, artist Charles Meanwell spent a week navigating the unique terrain of Bancroft, Ontario which lies on the southern edge of the Canadian Shield. In this new series of…
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Charlene Vickers – Earthly Delights
Charlene Vickers was thinking about Hieronymus Bosch when she wondered what an Anishnaabe Garden of Earthly Delights would look like. The video below shows how her thoughts played out. It’s an unusually informative…
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Tiger vs Bear – Jeff Nachtigall
Animals have populated the work of Canadian artist Jeff Nachtigall for more than three decades. He’s on exhibition in Tiger vs Bear at Galerie Youn in Montreal from April 15 through June 3.…
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Yellow Tiger Swallowtail
There are so many layers of meaning to Paul Morstad’s ultra-creative works. His drawings and paintings carry semi-fictional narratives built on natural science, mythology, musicology, rumours, hyperbole and folklore. (Above: Orphan Tsunami, 22…
