Aside from music, emotion by itself can drive the painting process. Non-representational art is the very best way to straight express emotion because it isn’t constrained by trying to be “true” to a particular subject make a difference. If you […]

In Francoise Nielly’s work, she will never use any modern tools and employs only oil plus palette knife. The colours are existing roughly on the canvas and turn into an extremely energetic work. Her portraits encapsulate energy of color selection […]

The recent work of Montreal artist Freda Guttman is called Cassandra: An Opera in Four Acts and unlike her earlier work that had a more didactic approach to her activist concerns, this installation is notably more lyrical and introspective — […]

Born in 1947, Robert Therrien belongs to a generation of artists whose imaginations were galvanized by Minimalism and its sources in the work of Brancusi, Duchamp and Mondrian but also by Pop Art and its irreverence. In the mid/late 1960s […]

The companion volume to a recent exhibition at The New Museum in New York City, A Labor of Love chronicles the debates surrounding the production of arts and crafts over the last century. Discussing hierarchical categorizations of high and low, […]