Brutalizing Veneers: Pamela Masik’s The Forgotten (Preview)
25 Sep 2010, Posted in Art Reviews, 2 Comments
During the month of January, artist Pamela Masik installed a selection from her project The Forgotten in the exhibition space at the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library. The Forgotten consists of a series of large-scale paintings depicting the 69 women who have disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. Upon entering Library Square, I first found the work as I looked down through the glass railing towards the basement. I walked downstairs to get a closer look.
Continue Reading...New Discourses: Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography from the Wedge Collection
25 Sep 2010, Posted in Art Reviews, 0 Comments
Photography is often considered an accurate record and representation of reality, with the truths that the camera produces seemingly forever affixed to the subjects that exist beyond its lens. Curator Okwui Enwezor has often written about the conflicted relationship that the continent of Africa and members of the African diaspora have had with photography, noting that Africa has been presented as a “wasteland of the bizarre and the insane,” a site outside of time or a site of unending struggle and upheaval.
Continue Reading...My Rectum Is Not a Grave: Will Munro’s Inside the Solar Temple of the Cosmic Leather Daddy
25 Sep 2010, Posted in Art Reviews, 0 Comments
At 35 years old, Will Munro has been a fixture of the Toronto scene for over a decade, and his visual art practice is inseparable from his long-standing involvement in queer community activism and in creating alternative spaces for queer subcultural expression: punk, artfag, youth, sex-radical, anti-capitalist. In addition to working for a number of years with the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Line, Munro founded and programmed the famed Vazaleen live rock parties before he and Lynn McNeill bought the Beaver Café on Queen West, which has become a hub for the local queer art scene.
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