Jeffrey Spalding on David Bolduc (1945-2010)
This is something I got from Jeffrey Spalding who is one of Canada’s leading artists, educators and art museum professionals. As usual, his observations and insightful and informative. Thank you Jeffrey.
David Bolduc (1945-2010) was our leading maker of poetic, lyrical colour abstract paintings and the inheritor of the mantle of modernism within the legacy of [...]
Vahap Avsar’s Notes On Works And Silence Of Unspeakable
SUPREME
This is the first work I have produced after an 11 years hiatus from making and showing art. It was my desire to make a simple and completely conceptual form from an idea I could not manage to get rid of in my head for a long time. ALLAH is the most sacred word of [...]
Ben Portis on Kent Monkman (Calgary’s Glenbow Museum: Feb 13 – April 25)
Land Claims
The first time I visited Kent Monkman’s Toronto studio, four or so years ago, I was taken aback by an unexpected sight. At its center was an immense canvas in progress upon which Monkman was painstakingly copying, from reproduction back to original dimensions, Albert Bierstadt’s Among the Sierra Nevada, [...]
Marina Abramovic’s Presence at the MOMA
The MoMA has never shied away from presenting artists who challenge the viewer. Their latest exhibit, featuring performance Yugoslavian-born artist, Marina Abramovic, is no exception. Abramovic challenges the viewer from the onset. Want to see the exhibit? Sure, but you’ll have to squeeze through two nude performers first.
This isn’t about sensationalism. The exhibition is too [...]
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