Toronto artist Gerard Gauci is widely known in Canada as a painter and set designer, especially for his still life paintings. A 1982 graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, he began his career as an illustrator and became a full-time painter in 1998. He has […]
Greg Haberny is known for his wildly styled, spontaneous work. His background in filmmaking enables him to offer strong visual clues, for example when he regenerates vintage comics, pin-up girls and baby boomer advertising. “His work is a strong personal expression and involves a very physical process mixing […]
Jason Bard Yarmosky used his 84-year-old grandparents as models for this discomfiting series on the intersection of the battered body and the vibrant soul. His solo “Elder Kinder” exhibition opens this week at Lyons Wier Gallery in New York. (Above: The Sound of Silence; Below: Ballet) Yarmosky’s works […]
Michael Paul Miller’s art explores the human ability to persevere, adapt and survive, especially when the path is perilous and the end is bleak. (Above: The Calling, 2007) The Migration’ (above, 2011) is an example of the tenacious humans he paints. >My work explores the sublimity of existence […]
A major retrospective on Takao Tanabe, one of Canada’s most esteemed artists, is open now at the Burnaby Art Gallery, with 60 works that have never been publicly viewed. It runs through Jan. 22, 2012. Tanabe, 85 years old, is best known as a landscape painter and internationally […]
John MacGregor’s lifelong fixation on time led him to re-structure his view of clocks, which appear in his art as the fluid, un-regimented devices he would prefer. “My clocks have been in the making for more than 30 years. They are an expression of my dissatisfaction with the […]
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