Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life

So, it's been a while, but my summer class, work contract and exhibition are all finally over and I now have more of that super precious commodity called free time. Unfortunately, having no time has meant I haven't seen a heck of a lot of art lately and am still...

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 for the catalogue...

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 exactly who the...

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" group exhibition at the...

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 it's a combination of...

Dennis Oppenheim’s upside-down church

I actually had no idea what this artist's name was when I lived in Vancouver - I just always thought of this piece as the "upside-down church" in Coal Harbour. And while I used to think it was a little over-the-top, I sort of enjoyed how much it stuck out in the...

Associative YouTube-ing

Cait and I were doing some associative YouTube-ing and it turns out that this is the first result that comes up under "Gabby".I would give pretty much anything to have had this girl's moves when I was in dance class as a child.

Stutter and Twitch

Cait has been teasing me that I'm unemployed now that classes are over and my contract job is done and I only go to an internship two days a week, but I think today I finally got the swing of things and realized I could spend all this free time riding my bike around...

The AGO’s new logo

The AGO launched their newly designed logo, created by Bruce Mau Designs, today.Is it just me, or is it a little underwhelming and a lot like the aesthetic of Saved by the Bell circa 1991?

Projected Lights

Apparently (or so says my girlfriend) I am getting a new DVD in the mail from Blocks Recording Club that compiles 14 projection works that accompany or illustrate music from some of their bands:Projected Lights is a DVD of Toronto’s shadow play and projection...