Category: FEATURES

Interview with Stella Cade

by Madeleine Till

I was being as honest with a portrait of someone else as with my own self-portraits. Maintaining the vulnerability in the piece. Those specific insecurities are important because that’s how I look at art, at myself, and at the world.

Art Spiegelman’s CO-MIX: A Retrospective

by Joséphine Mwanvua

Art Spiegelman – who happens to have a very metaphorical way of speaking, and who is just as funny as his comics – talked about how the culture of comics changed society’s relationship to media and how comics are treated nowadays: that they can even be seen in museums.

Vera Frenkel: Ways of Telling at MOCCA

by Mitch Billinkoff

The exhibition is an effectively condense survey of Frenkel’s body of work. Her interdisciplinary practice surely offers something to any prospective visitor, be they interested in video, installation, text, performance or sound.

Sarah Farndon: Punchline

by Kate Pendergast

The exhibition is a mélange of notable political figures who bare no political affiliation to one another but whose commonality is in their representation, all in full-tilt uninhibited laughter.

Carol Wainio: Dropped from the Calendar

by Simon Termine

It is through the broad juxtaposition of the dystopian landscapes and the gentle innocent presence of children that allow Wainio’s pieces to convey such robust emotional connotations that is unique to her artistic style.

Karine Giboulo: HYPERland

by Brinae Bain

Giboulo accomplishes a great deal with her vibrant and comical figures. Her work presents the viewer with entertaining, thoughtprovoking situations that reflect on, what have become, society’s standards.

Kate McQuillen: Dead Reckoning

by David Saric

Kate McQuillen’s Dead Reckoning, on now at the O’Born Contemporary, transforms the traditional commercial gallery space into an artfully abstracted information center.