Young professionals, you are itching to take a road trip out of the city for the day? Are you looking for something that will thrill you visually and stimulate you mentally? Join film maker and artist Jill Sharpe at the...
If you weren’t able to attend this year’s four-day Juried Contemporary Art Fair The Artist Project 2013, don’t fret. I am here to fill you in on all the highlights from the opening night and let you in on some must-see upcoming local artists that stood out at the fair
We’re so excited that next week is the opening evening and auction for the eagerly anticipated SNAP! Gala, taking place on Thursday, March 7, 2013. Mark your calendars and be sure to come out for an evening of great talent, people and a good cause
Tucked away on bustling Church Street is the fairly new Akasha Art Projects, a pleasurable gem that I would have passed if I hadn’t have known about Sean Galbraith’s current solo show. I was delightfully happy to find out that Akasha Art Projects does custom framing and art installation services in addition to hosting photo-based exhibits every four weeks in their bright beautiful white space
For the past few years, visual artist Nathalie Quogliotto (Montreal/Toronto) has curated a mixed selection of artworks to celebrate the event(s). This year, on her 28th birthday, the show was held at one of my favourite local Queen West galleries, gallerywest in Toronto, and focused on artists in the Toronto arts community
Thrush Holmes. What can I say? This self-taught Toronto-based artist has exhibited widely throughout Canada and the US, and has been placed among Canada’s top-selling living artists. His works have been referred to as fresh, raw, showy, vulgar, larger-than-life, and yet, simultaneously delicate, detailed, subtle, and suffused, somehow, with loneliness and yearning
From the moment I met Sean Martindale in a street art tour coordinated by through the AGO Next, I knew right away he was doing something thoughtful and thought-provoking in our city. I instantly had a predilection for his plant poster installations that he so patiently and with gentle hands demonstrated for the group of eager art hounds that day, and then realized after perusing his website I had seen so many of his pieces around the city
Nestled away on the studio/gallery-stacked Walnut Avenue is home to the comfortable and well-designed gallery space of interior designer Alison Milne. Recently the Alison Milne Gallery pulled together three Toronto based artists, Ross Bonfanti, Alex Jowett and Erin Vincent,to feature a pre-holiday exhibition exploring material and process. The result: “Heavy Weightlessness”
Are you young professionals looking to start building your art collection? Or are you looking for that inspiration to start the New Year off with a bang? I was. Desperately. So I booked my trip down to Miami to attend the well-received and highly spoken about Art Basel Miami from Dec. 7-9, 2012
Joseph Beuys famously said “Everyone is an artist,” referring to his belief in a universal human creativity and the power of art to bring about revolutionary change. On this belief, Kyle Kofsky, Founder of Everyone Is An Artist, started his agency of collective artists in Toronto
