Term Projects at XPACE

TERM PROJECTSDeadline-driven installations by multi-tasking artistsDear Toronto, (Petrina Ng and Shannon Phair), Zeesy Powers, Fedora Romita and Jennifer SciarrinoCurated by Gabby MoserOpening Reception: Thursday, August 14, 7-10 pmFeaturing the Zeesy Powers Grant...

Posters, but not really posting

I’m still alive and one day – hopefully soon – I will be able to breathe and stop moving and do fun things like blog again.For the moment, here is the amazing poster my sister (Bridget, who has her online poster-making presence here) just churned out...

Frenemies in the Toronto art world

My condensed summer class started two weeks ago, which means 200 pages of reading a week and no more blogging for a while.But, in the mean time, check out Leah Sandals’ musings on Frenemies in the Toronto art world.

KRAZY! at the Vancouver Art Gallery

I’m totally with Aaron Peck on his assessment of the VAG’s current enormous retrospective, ‘KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art,’ published today on akimblog:I must admit I doubt I’m the target demographic, but just...

Interior of Design

While I’ve been in Vancouver visiting family and friends and doing research like crazy, I’ve also been trying to stop by some of the shows that are up in the city right now. And last weekend I went to the opening of the “Interior of Design”...

Community art projects

I tend to have a lot of apprehension and reservation about community art projects, especially projects that attempt to involve “resource-poor” or inner-city and otherwise marginalized groups. I’m not sure what informs these reservations. I think...