This Sunday at The Power Plant: Thinking about Andrea Bowers’s “The Weight of Relevance”

by Gabby | Apr 17, 2012 | Conversations

This Sunday, I’m pleased to be taking part in some of The Power Plant’s 25th anniversary programming by speaking in their “From the Archives” series: presentations by local artists, critics and curators that look back at the gallery’s...

Artforum.com Critics’ Pick: Jason de Haan at Clint Roenisch Gallery

by Gabby | Apr 13, 2012 | Reviews

Two art critics whose work I admire—Sholem Krishtalka over at the Toronto Standard, and Murray Whyte at the Toronto Star—have already espoused all of the wonderful qualities at play in Jason de Haan’s sophomore exhibition at Clint Roenisch Gallery, “Year...

Exhibition essay on Linda Duvall’s “The Toss”

by Gabby | Mar 2, 2012 | Curatorial, Exhibition Essays

For her latest exhibition, The Toss, Linda Duvall has created a fascinating, self-reflexive installation about her experience of learning “to toss” other people (basically a self-defense/stunt trick where she grabs someone by the arm or around the neck and...

Artforum.com Critics’ Pick: Valerie Blass at the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal

by Gabby | Feb 29, 2012 | Reviews

Earlier this month, I had the good fortune to spend a weekend in Montreal just as a bunch of excellent shows were opening. My favourites, though, were the three solo exhibitions by contemporary women artists currently on view at the Musée d’art contemporain de...

Book review in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Curatorial Studies

by Gabby | Feb 28, 2012 | Reviews

This week marks the Toronto launch of the new Journal of Curatorial Studies, co-edited by Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick of the curatorial collective Displaycult and published by Intellect Books. The Journal of Curatorial Studies launches its inaugural issue at...