Emily Neufeld: Rupture
That single word evokes and suggests and even yearns. Stripped down and devoid of any patina of emotion, it of course points to something physical, tangible – something real, something constructed,...
View ArticlePaula Murray: Form and (Non) Function
Medium specificity again. It’s something that can be hard to get away from for some artists. Trueness to materials can exert a very strong aesthetic pull, and ceramics is one field in which medium...
View ArticleSeeing Sounds: Gordon Monahan
We’re not unfamiliar with the use of sound to shape or reshape a physical space. I mean, in a way isn’t that what Muzak was intended to do? Infect psychological space, inner space, and have us respond...
View ArticleSusan Rankin: Glassworks
I came of age – the late 1970s – in an artistic environment in which artists, and not curators or gallery directors, were taking the lead. In Canada, this led to the founding of galleries right across...
View ArticleClear as Mud: Ceramic Sculpture by Christopher Reid Flock and Magdolene Dykstra
I would suggest that there are two primary paths through clay and toward the sculptural: one through (or into) the vessel, and the other not so much. Okay, that’s not so profound a statement, but...
View ArticleDon Maynard: Through a Glass, Lightly
This starts with glass. Again. This time, though, it’s not the hot glass of the studio, but rather the commercial and industrial variety. Like Pyrex, that stuff so familiar to us through its use in...
View ArticleStanding In Place Of: Shelly Rahme and Jannick Deslauriers
Representation. Well, there’s a loaded term if ever there was; a veritable minefield. It has myriad meanings, associations, connotations, what have you. So let me narrow it down – quite a bit, actually...
View ArticleBreaking Entropy: Anne Ramsden
Through the first half of 2018, the Gardiner Museum in Toronto – an eminent institution devoted to ceramics – mounted The Riverbed, a gallery installation by New York City-based artist Yoko Ono. The...
View ArticleClosing the Circle: Ernest Daetwyler
You can blow soap bubbles in the wintertime, and do it outdoors; it’s not just a summertime, outdoors thing. If you do it carefully enough, you can watch the completed bubble begin to freeze. But...
View ArticleForeign Invaders: Sculpture by Luke Jerram and Colleen Wolstenholme
The human body. The human being. Expectation and convention might suggest, I suppose, that I talk about the aesthetic gaze as it is sculpturally focused on the human body. But I’ll slide sideways a...
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