It is mid March. I stepped into the garden. Flower buds appearing, green grass replacing the soggy ground. Growth is everywhere. Colour is everywhere. It will soon be Spring.
 

Paintings by British Columbian artist Todd Clark.

Painting from film stills extracted from sources of popular culture, McReynolds explores how an image can be broken down through multiple layers of appropriation, from film to video to digital media to paint. Depicting group activities such as party scenes, sun bathing and show-boat performances, McReynolds magnifies the contrast between the immediacy of spectacle and [...]

I had good penmanship. My handwriting, regardless of style I adopted, was neat, uniform and highly legible. Sadly, without the opportunity to practice, I have now lost much of this skill. Just the other day, when I picked up a pencil to write for an extended period of time, I was horrified at the unevenness [...]

…Vancouver, 1912. Vancouver is a bustling city. Hastings Street is at the heart of the downtown core. It is the place to “see and be seen”. The city’s most popular theatres, restaurants, dance halls, and hotels are all located in the first three blocks of East Hastings Street. In that year, Antonio Demetry establishes a [...]

Adulthood is riddled with responsibilities and obligations. The reality of survival clutches all form of frivolity in its grasp upon graduation and yanks us from the bliss of our mothers’ petticoats. Hampered by unrealistic expectations (from our parents) and naive aspirations (from ourselves), we begin to assume our roles in society as the next generation [...]

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything is to be obliterated. Admittedly, there is the primal shock of the deserts and the dazzle of California, but when this is gone the secondary brilliance of the journey begins, that of the excessive, pitiless distance, the infinity of anonymous faces and [...]

I have a rather poor image of myself. My insatiable desire to tweak all that is around me to deemed perfection long ago deterred me from having my photograph taken (the one of me on this website is just about the only one I have taken in the past few years). The camera could, and [...]

In Kalberg’s most recent work, fragments of imagery are assembled to create unstable tableaux, forms unplaced and dislodged from their original context. Using abstract vocabulary as well as representational segments, the artist constructs a complex world of symbols and signs which border on the edge of recognition, purposely offering the viewer a variety of interpretations.
Dynamic [...]

Kenneth Noland, whose brilliantly colored concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field painting, … arrived on the scene in the immediate aftermath of Abstract Expressionism. A student of the geometric abstractionists Josef Albers and Ilya Bolotowsky, he found his [...]

I am attracted to shiny things. Seductive scintillations titillate my nerves, flushing me with excitement. Reflections and refractions - I can resist neither. Why do I fall prey to a glimmer? Why do gleaming objects fondle my heart so?
“Arguments on this point are necessarily speculative, but it’s worth noting that we associate shininess, cleanliness and [...]