Mar 14, 20195 minJessie Harris at Cooper ColeI still don’t know how I feel about Jesse Harris’ new solo show AD NAUSEUM at Cooper Cole. Harris is an established and much-loved figure...
Mar 7, 20191 minMaddy Mathews at XpaceThis month I wrote the exhibition text for Maddy Mathews' drawing and accompanying sculpture at Xpace! You can read it on their website,...
Feb 28, 20193 minNep Sidhu at Mercer UnionThis week I decided to once again defy the inhospitable winds of this relentless winter and go see Nep Sidhu’s solo show, Medicine for a...
Feb 19, 20193 minChloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau at Gallery TPWCan you place the pain on a scale of 1 to 10? Is it a pressure? An ache? A pinch? A stabbing? Is it sharp or dull? To those who have been...
Sep 14, 2019 6 min The Bald Eagle's Claw at Xpace Cultural Centre I have to confess, when I saw the call-for-submissions for The Bald Eagle’s Claw which recently closed at Xpace, my first response was...
Jul 30, 2019 3 min ( ) at Daniel Faria I saw this show twice: once, full of bodies at the opening and again, alone, a couple of days later with some more room to see and to...
Jul 26, 2019 3 min Summer Forecast at Dianna Witte Summer Forecast, a new group show at Dianna Witte Gallery, arose out of curiosities about the subjectivity of visual perception, asking...
Jul 1, 2019 5 min Sarah Davidson's Woven World Sarah Davidson’s practice involves theoretical research, painting, drawing, and guiding group hiking trips for a nature school. Between...
Jun 12, 2019 3 min Clara Couzino at General Hardware The works in Clara Couzino’s show S’évader (To Escape), which recently closed at General Hardware, walk the line between sculpture and...
Jun 1, 2019 3 min Natalie King: Style, Power, and Intimacy The figures in Natalie King’s paintings and installations gaze at you dozily from behind thick wings of lashes. Clad in anything from a...
May 17, 2019 3 min Anne Low at Franz Kaka When planning her shows, Anne Low tends to respond to the architectural particularities of the given exhibition space. In the case of her...
May 8, 2019 5 min Seo Eun Kim is Administering the Abject I’m welcomed by three cats as I step into Seo Eun Kim’s downtown apartment. Somewhat feline-like herself, the painter is settled,...
Apr 18, 2019 4 min Alex McLeod at Division Gallery Alex McLeod, with the aid of algorithms and a 3D printer, has made a whole lot of work for his show, Ghost Stories, which opened last...
Apr 11, 2019 4 min Toby Pikelin at Black Cat Showroom A friend of mine from school was in town for the day and we made a plan to see The Ties That Bind, an exhibition of work by Toby Pikelin...
