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Acorn Theory - A Painting-installation by Dave Gordon

There are artworks you see and enjoy and then walk away from and forget. And there are artworks you assume you’ve forgotten but which, sometime later (days, months), will not be shaken from their ever-tightening toeholds in your sensibility and you start thinking about them all over again. You want…
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On Criticism: the Sullen Art

(Texte) Gary Michael Dault
“Sullen” in this context means “solitary,” not just moody. It was the writing of poetry that used to be called the Sullen Art (see Dylan Thomas’s poem, published in 1946, titled In My Craft and Sullen Art) (“In my craft or sullen art / Exercised in the still night / When only the moon rages….”).…
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Michèle LaRose
“Shapes from the Air”

(Texte) Gary Michael Dault
The phrase, she says, comes from the title of the late American poet John Ashbery’s 2008 collection of his later poems, Notes from the Air. As she writes in her Verb Gallery artist’s statement, “When Ashbery was asked about the title, he said his ideas came from the air….” LaRose says she liked…
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Cries and Whispers the art of Kai Chan

(Texte) Gary Michael Dault
There is an engaging film made in Halifax some years ago by the National Film Board (you can see it on YouTube), in which artist Kai Chan guides a roomful of surprisingly charming sub-teens through the stirring possibilities of art making. One of the children has brought an egg to the session. “Do…
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Daniel Oxley
A Privacy Externalized

(Texte) Gary Michael Dault
Oxley is painting through an age where numinous is synonymous with ruinous. And yet his paintings — lush, opulent, and unashamedly lyrical — are defiantly unabashed by and ambitious in their literary, mythological and metaphysical reach. It might also be noted that his voluptuous paintings are…
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Michael Schreier
What is Remembered

(Texte) Gary Michael Dault
An hour before beginning to write this essay, I was on the phone to Michael Schreier, at his home in Ottawa, asking him some eleventh hour questions. And he had a query for me: “Why do you want to write about my work?” he asked me amiably. “You want me to answer that right now?” I asked him. My…
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Louise Robert
Il suffit d’un regard

(Texte) Gary Michael Dault
While Louise Robert’s Toronto 25 is not an actual retrospective, it does provide a celebrational overview of the Montreal-based, septuagenarian artist’s painting practice, and, at the same time, the course of her work during her twenty-five year association with Toronto’s Christopher Cutts Gallery.…
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Viktor Mitic
Cease Fire

(Texte) Gary Michael Dault
For the past nine years. Serbian-born, Toronto-based artist Viktor Mitic has strong-armed his way into his current high-profile, media-fraught reputation by relentlessly emptying thousands of rounds of ammo into his paintings. For Mitic, an M14 rifle is as familiar to him as his own brushes. He was…
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David Clarkson
Remotes

(Texte) Gary Michael Dault
The title of David Clarkson’s nearly inaugural exhibition at the recently launched Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects in Toronto (Clarkson was preceded only by a brief, overture-like exhibition by the inventive Josh Thorpe), is Remotes. As a title, it is self-possessed to the point of…
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A New Look: 1960s and 70s Abstract Painting

The pickings are pretty slim. And of course while it’s clear that having to organize an exhibition such as A New Look from works a museum already owns can’t be much fun for curators in the first place, it also doesn’t help that 1) the Art Gallery of Ontario doesn’t own very much good abstract stuff…
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