Interview with Lex Vaughn

Interview with Lex Vaughn

This week at my day job at Canadian Art, I got the opportunity to interview artist and performer Lex Vaughn about her residency and installation at Saskatoon’s AKA Gallery as the “geriatric dandy” character Peanut Brittle. Vaughn has performed with...
Top Tens of 2009

Top Tens of 2009

I should be doing the last of this term’s schoolwork, but instead I’m doing this: compiling my list of top ten, favourite art-related exhibitions and events from 2009. Both Canadian Art and akimblog published theirs last week, and Sally and LM have just...
Art Criticism and/as/vs Judgment

Art Criticism and/as/vs Judgment

I am shocked and also sort of ashamed to see that I haven’t updated here in almost 2 months (!?). I blame contemporary art, as well as the first year of a PhD program. I’ve also been working hard on freelance stuff (writing, The Leona Drive Project, a tiny...
Cedric Bomford’s “TOWER BLOCK”

Cedric Bomford’s “TOWER BLOCK”

My review of Red Bull 381 Projects’ latest exhibition, “TOWER BLOCK” by Cedric Bomford, is out now on the Canadian Art website. The show is open for another week, so I highly recommend stopping by and seeing it (and climbing it!) if you get the...