by Gabby | Oct 11, 2011 | Writing
My friend and colleague Jacob Korczynski, who has just returned from De Appel’s Curatorial Programme and is now the Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), recently drew my attention to this talk by New York–based artist Sharon Hayes,...
by Gabby | May 19, 2011 | Reviews, Writing
It’s been a busy couple of months, with Images blogging happening in April and lots of behind-the-scenes work on a forthcoming article for Fillip that is my first attempt at a sustained reading of Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes of Google Street View project, which...
by Gabby | Mar 1, 2011 | Photography, Writing
The issues surrounding representations of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood in contemporary art have bothered me (in the best sense of that word, as in, it keeps tugging at my brain when I least expect it) for several years now. I think it began with...
by Gabby | Jan 15, 2011 | Reviews, Writing
Ever since seeing it in its Montreal incarnation at DHC/ART, I have been fascinated by Sophie Calle’s exhaustive installation about a breakup email, Prenez soin de vous. The project is engaging, sometimes funny, sometimes ridiculous and not without its faults....
by Gabby | Jan 15, 2011 | Reviews, Writing
The Winter issue of the Montreal-based, bilingual magazine esse, this time themed around “Inventories”, is out this week and includes two of my reviews from Toronto: Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby’s solo exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art +...
by Gabby | Nov 14, 2010 | Exhibition Essays, Writing
On Friday night, I had the pleasure of seeing a set of new works by Toronto artist Zeesy Powers at Gallery TPW as part of the gallery’s ongoing series “You Had To Be There,” which investigates the relationship between liveness and images. I’ve...
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