Ottawa artist Andrew King has an already storied background – as a syndicated cartoonist while studying at university in industrial design, then as a television animator and now, a rising painter. His bold colors, unconventional shapes and strong sense of humor have made him immensely popular, despite his […]
British Columbia artist Robert Bigelow’s series of drawings (over two hundred in all) were done in less than a year, using just red, black and blue ballpoint pens. With the attention to detail often associated with the scientific method, Bigelow has executed a concentrated body of work that […]
Roksan Kohen’s dynamic acrylics cover people, animals, fantasy environments and other settings, but she says she draws them all from an internal fluency that begins at some point, with every work. While working I do not think. I stare into the blank surface until I see lines and […]
Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu has been attracting attention since the 1990s for her depictions of black women, “tampered with and prey to strange bodily mutations.” Moth Girls is an installation of hundreds of figures with leather wings and female legs, pinned on boards like insects. Wangechi Mutu, Detail, “Moth […]
The words Robin Laws Field uses to describe her textured fibre art are as fascinating as her work: Colour and texture pull me in and keep me up at night until I’ve figured out how to make them mine; and then how to picture them so that others […]
Lori Nelson’s narrative art is part of a fascinating new exhibit: In the End, A Good Story is About All that Remains at Toronto’s Fran Hill Gallery. The imaginative works are by eight “story telling” artists from New York City, from the young and emerging to mid-career and […]
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