Emanuel Licha reviewed in Galleries West
Galleries West magazine visited PAVED Arts to review Emanuel Licha’s work there—if you’ve only seen the work we had up here this January, take a look at their take on other half of the show in Saskatoon.
mmm…. tasty!
This week I had the pleasure of seeing Alexa Mietz’s exhibition “TASTY” at the University of Alberta’s FAB Gallery.
Drawing inspiration from an eclectic array of sources including the rich foliage patterns of William Morris, the enigmatic shadow boxes of Joseph Cornell, and the decorative wall niches she encountered while visiting the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Alexa creates visual experiences that elicit wonder. It also helps that the works contain a healthy amount of glitter, rhinestones and iridescent ceramic figurines (craft materials to fall in love with). Through her inclusion of kitsch, found objects and fingernails, this current body of work is at once magnetic and abject, while raising questions about class and taste. (The photos of these works simply don’t do them justice. They shimmer and are far more intricate in person…)
Easy Breezy, 2011
Back up a second….fingernails? Take a closer look at Easy Breezy…
For McLuhan experts and rookies alike
Check it out—our writer-in-residence alumnus Carolyn Jervis wrote a review of our current Main Space show, SPACES&PLACES in Vue Magazine. She writes:
Although Marshall McLuhan is a household name for the CBC-listening set, his ideas about how technology and media shapes our lives have faded from niche ubiquity, beyond his famous lines, “The medium is the message,” and, “Global village.” In honour of the 100th anniversary of McLuhan’s birth, Latitude 53 and curator Aidan Rowe have on offer an exhibition of artwork inspired by the visionary thinker.
Read the whole thing online here or grab a copy of this week’s Vue street-side.
Carolyn Jervis covers our shows for VUE Weekly
Carolyn Jervis, formerly of L53 Writer-in-Residence fame (you can re-visit her posts here), reviewed both our current exhibitions in this week’s edition of VUE Weekly.
On Brandon A. Dalmer’s Too Drunk to Fuck, she writes:
“[Brandon A.] Dalmer plays upon the human imperative to find pleasure in voyeurism through his series of peep holes, dioramas and prints of mundane and disconcerting neighbourhood life. ….This feeling of covert looking… is seductive, and creates an intense desire to scour each object and scene to seek out the story.
“Dalmer bars viewers from the satisfaction of a clear and singular story in any of his works by refusing to give the spectator enough information to create one. ….[He] draw[s] viewers in through voyeurism and nostalgia, only to present the realization that something sinister is going on beneath the veneer of these clean and tidy neighbourhood scenes.”
And on Gary James Joynes/Clinker’s Frequency Painting: 12 Tones:
“These images are fascinating to think of as snapshots of sand sculpted by sound. This is where the sense of awe comes in, as you consider that the striking differences in how every sand sculpture was formed is due to a manipulation of hertz. ….Experiencing this exhibition is an exercise in endurance. It is more than just visual or aural presentation. It is a visceral encounter to view beautiful images made through a stunning process, and to do so while the sounds reverberate through your body.”
You can read the rest of Carolyn’s article here.
Stop by the gallery this week, and see these two amazing shows for yourself. And don’t miss out on Gary James Joynes’ artist talk, this Saturday (Feb 5) at 2:00 PM! Check out the Facebook event for more info.
Amy Fung reviews Jody MacDonald
In this week’s Vue Weekly, Amy Fung takes on Jody MacDonald’s Will The Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?, on display in the Main Gallery until 29 May.
Oddball humorous and morbidly crafty, MacDonald riffs off everything from twisting jargon like “Fishing For Compliments” to Jungian archetypes of self formation. Most of the individual pieces reveal this grappling of ideas and theory with the straightforward use of text demarcating which identity they are expressing. Working as a whole, their messaging carries more resonance as each character exists in relation to each other, with some alienated by or away from each other.
Brenda Draney reviewed in Galleries West
In the Summer issue of Galleries West, Amy Fung writes about Brenda Draney’s recent show at Latitude 53. Read it on their site.
Canadian Art—Gabriel Coutu-Dumont: Sketches of Synchronicity
Amy Fung reviews Gabriel Coutu-Dumont’s show for Canadian Art.
