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Art We Love: Lynne Cohen
Montreal-based mega-photographer, Lynne Cohen, has built an international reputation making large-scale photographs of the frightening–though sometimes beautiful and inexplicably moving–emptiness and absences of the contemporary urban environment. Here, in this recent work, her cunning use of mirroring compounds the aridity… -
The Little Bed That Could.
Given this expedient age’s tendency to throw everything away and buy new, we think it’s refreshing that TEB Interiors–whose principal, Terry Edward Briceland designed the Art Condos model suites–took on the refurbishing of this elderly settee. Seeing the object as …
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ART WE LOVE: HWEON 1 by CHUNG-IM KIM
Hovering somewhere between painting, drawing and sculpture—and between pure visual art and design—Chung-Im Kim’s wall-mounted, hand-stitched felt plaque (which has been silkscreened), is a crisply vibrant work that seems simultaneously static and yet full of spinning, torque-like movement.
It sells …
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Art We Love: Julie Jenkinson – 36 Hours in Uruguay
Designer Julie Jenkinson runs the micro-shop called Verso, tucked into the rear of Inabstracto on Queen StreetWest. Last year she spent three months in South America, thirty-six hours of which were spent in Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay.It… -
ART WE LOVE: Two Door Mats by Gerald Ferguson
Halifax-based conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson (1937-2009) always did everything he could to avoid making beautiful paintings—but ended by making them anyhow, almost against his will. One of his ploys was to distance himself as much as possible from the actual …
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MONDO CONDO: The ART Condos Model Suites.
Everybody knows that no matter how well-designed a space may be, it looks a lot warmer, spacious and therefore, a lot more enjoyable when it’s furnished.
A condo unit may have vast windows that let the natural light pour in, …
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Art We Love: Shayne Dark “Bough Laden with Fluorescent Orange”
During the last couple of years, Sculptor Shayne Dark–who lives in the country near Sydenham, Ontario and who maintains a large studio in Kingston, Ontario—has become one of Canada’s most prolific and successful makers of public sculpture. Up until recently,… -
About the Neighbourhood – “Taking A Stand” On Queen West
This caught our eye the other day. It struck us as arresting that in the simple act of putting a chair on top of a table,you could rob both objects of their original function and turn the whole structure… -
Art We Love – Steve Driscoll’s “CEDAR FALLS”
This prodigious, unreasonably beautiful painting is titled Cedar Falls. It’s huge (9 ‘; x 10), and glistens like a wet forest with the pigmented urethane with which it is painted.
The painting is by a young,Toronto-based painter named Steve Driscoll. …
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ARTCONDOS: ART WE LOVE JOY by Kai Chan.
We dropped into the nearby David Kaye Gallery the other day to see new work by the celebrated Chinese-Canadian artist Kai Chan. Chan, who was born in China in 1940 and has lived in Toronto since 1966, is the recipient …
