Sam Songailo Work from Media Centre. “‘Abstraction has been less a search for the ultimately meaningful… than a recurrent push for the temporarily meaningless.’* Paintings that look like something are rubbish. Why not take a picture? Or just look at the real thing? Or if you really want to see something differently, just use your […]

  Bill Sullivan Work from Works 1. Rephotographed works of LCD screens, etc. “…These works are included in the sections WORKS 1, WORKS 2, and WORKS 3. Many of these works employed various types of re-photography to create new kinds of optical texture . These works are made up of prints, photographs and works on […]

Jean Klimak Work from Chew by Numbers. “I make artworks that have contradictions in them, artworks that lie somewhere between the sublime and ambivalence. Through these processes, I focus on materials that are dissimilar in nature or exhibited in curious ways. By working in this manner, tensions are created between the materials I choose or […]

Liu Bolin Work from Camouflage. “Are human beings animals? Chameleon has the unique property of changing hues to match the color of the surroundings for self-protection. Rattlesnake can bury most of the body in sand soil. This can not only protect itself but also have a better access to food. There are also many animals, […]

Arthur Ou Work from To Preserve, To Elevate, To Cancel. “To Preserve, To Elevate, To Cancel.” These three concepts define the German word “aufheben,” a term used by Walter Benjamin in his essay “Thesis on the Philosophy of History.” It seems fitting that the tri-fold meaning of this term would resonate in Arthur Ou’s work, […]

Mitch Robertson Work from Economies of Good and Evil. “When I get a hold of Toronto artist Mitch Robertson at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery in Halifax, he’s just returned from dropping off his son. The father and son team had been getting the gallery ready for Robertson’s show 5,6,7: Economies of Good & Evil. […]

Jana Gunstheimer Work from Status L Phenomenon. “Darkness is a constant refrain in Jana Gunstheimer’s consistently black-and-white drawings and aquarelles. It almost seems as if daylight can never dawn on the derelict spaces and desolate zones, reverted to nature, that are her preferred territory. Her reports tell of a shadow reality characterized by flowing transitions […]

Roula Partheniou Work from Handmade Readymade, Bookstall, and Works, Works I. The Handmade Readymade project is an ongoing series of canvases painted to resemble books. The paintings function as trompe l’oeil in the round, as text works, found poetry, as constructed mini-narratives and as stand-ins for grand universal themes. An exercise in scale, appropriation and […]

Chris Doyle Work from Unititled House Series. “A modest suburban house landscaped with palm trees and decorated with a pine wreath, a serene yet ominous in-ground swimming pool, a solitary abandoned lawn chair. Converting the unused white sheet into an empty landscape, Doyle creates a juxtaposition of personal place with the void, highlighting the anxiety […]

Gerhard Richter Work from Overpainted Photographs. “A less well known aspect of the work of Gerhard Richter, the ‘overpainted photographs’ are not simply an answer to those who feared that photography had murdered painting, but an integrated work of material and colour. Countering the imposing format of his better-known paintings, these small overpainted photographs (mostly […]