ART
Feast your eyes! We shine a spotlight on a diverse array of local visual artists and the galleries that host their work.
This one’s for the art lovers: one of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s most popular shows, the Northern Ontario Juried Exhibition, returns July 5 until September 13, featuring a wide variety of works from across the region.
"I always say that there's two types of photos. There's photos that you make and there's photos that you take," says professional photographer and videographer Chad Kirvan, whose work encompasses everything from staged photography like corporate headshots and family portraits to more candid shots at concerts and festivals. Regardless of the occasion, Kirvan has mastered the ability to capture people authentically.
For two weeks in June, Co.Lab Gallery + Arts Centre will host Earth Tone, a solo exhibition by local ceramic artist Georgia Wilkins. The show features pieces Wilkins made over two months at Medalta, a museum and contemporary ceramics centre in Medicine Hat, Alberta, through its renowned International Artist in Residence program.
The students at Westgate CVI have been busy preparing for their fifth annual art show The Slant—a collaboration between the school's art department and the Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) programs.
It’s been said that the only constant in nature is that it’s ever-changing, and that quality is precisely what draws artist Angela Wiebe to landscape painting.
Take everything you know about fashion shows—the prim, the proper, the pretentious—and throw it out the window, and you have Derelicte: a one-of-a-kind, multisensory, multidisciplinary art experience.
“Taking pictures is peaceful for me. I love the nature of our area, and for me, it’s more than imagery—it’s memory, it’s emotion,” photographer Denis Bresolin says. “It reminds people of the raw beauty that surrounds us.”
Talk about a triple threat: Bianca Gascoigne is a skilled makeup artist, visual artist, and photographer, and all three disciplines work together when she’s prepping for a shot.
Local artist, filmmaker, and illustrator Shayne Ehman’s upcoming exhibition, Loose Trucks, invites visitors to experience how decades immersed in the world of skateboarding have shaped his choice of subject and his way of seeing.
“If you had a brick house and painted it pink, it would still hold the same as a brick house, even though it looked soft and squishy,” says local artist Hope Heart, whose debut art exhibit Not Too Sweet aims to prove that pink and strength are not mutually exclusive.
Artists Darcy Tara McDiarmid and Chantal Russo create an immersive environment where wildlife, traditional knowledge, and dream imagery unfold through four atmospheric films.
Szturm’s debut solo exhibition, Discrepancies, intends to examine our preference for manicured versions of the natural world as it confronts viewers with dirt, pests, and what we leave behind—whether that’s intentionally or not.