Articles
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Divided Pathways: Painting’s Choice
McIntosh is a highly intelligent painter whose predisposition is to be on the lookout for new ways of using colour and form. “I never want to fully know what I am going to have at the end because then I wouldn’t need to make the painting.” She is especially interested in a wilfully induced pictorial alienation in which what she sees is what she hasn’t seen before.
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The Synonym Revealer’s Life
There is a playful sense of menace in Farber’s work. One blog entry includes a list of “Songs improved by replacing the word love with the word blood,” and among them is “Blood Me Tender,” a tune that reimagines Elvis Presley as a crooning vampire. The imminence of something that approximates tender bloodletting, and other kinds of chaos, is everywhere visible in Farber’s paintings and drawings. These activities are more genial than gruesome. Things forever teeter on the edge of some anticipated occurrence, the conditions and consequences of which are not immediately apparent.
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Meating Place
Working in his Winnipeg studio at the end of 2012, Ufuk Gueray was hungry. The hunger was for change, not food. In one way, he had already had his fill. He was painting garish cityscapes and abandoned plazas with monstrous vehicles driving through them in an oversaturated Pop palette. “I was attracted to that sense of over-the-top colour. It was like eating too many sweets.” He felt he needed an antidote, something salty to offset all that flavour. He came up with was the idea of painting meat, and the container for that sea change was the common sausage.
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Brick Layers
Tyler Hilton is not a conventional storyteller. In a mesmerizing combination of words and pictures, he is engaged in a narrative about a character with the unusual name of Minmei Madelynne Pryor. Minmei is a deeply unhappy individual, relentlessly self-critical and involved with her reluctant boyfriend, River Phoenix. His inconsistency is understandable since he has been dead for nearly two decades.
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Drawing on History
Places for Peanuts
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Stolen Affinities
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The Woman Who Ate Money: A Parable for Our Times
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Too Little and Too Much, All the Time
“You are aware of the fact that you are looking at something that you cannot describe: that you can only understand or not understand. So you are arriving at a knowledge that cannot be translated into words.”
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Michael Snow
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The End of Telling
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Vera Frenkel
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Drawing the Dance of the Unfinished Story
June Leaf
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