Antfactor improvisations

A couple tracks of improvised sounds by Antfactor ...

With Hilda Synthesizer:

With Elastic Drums:

Both from Antfactor's youtube channel

Snail's Gallop

Lee Kun-Yong from his solo exhibition Snail's Gallop currently at Pace Gallery, New York:

Macnaughton + Watson

Kathryn Macnaughton's Joyride from her solo exhibition currently at Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto:

Janna Watson's I Am The Layered Cake from the group exhibition Method VI currently at Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto:

Emerging Now + Rambling Falls

Emerging Now is a curated exhibition of works by this year's Drawing and Painting graduates from OCADU (Ontario College of Art & Design University), currently showing at Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto.  Some highlights ...

Olivia Aguiar's Like A Jewel Thrown At A Polluted Brookling:

Hyun Young Yang's I Am:

Shinae Kim's Women And Children:

Jenny Tchen's Marriage Of Horses And Rabbits:

Deirdre McIntosh's Gently Bruised:

Also on view now at Bau-Xi is Gavin Lynch's drawing Rambling Falls:

Screen Tests, Swinging

With too much time in my hands lately, I started exploring things 60s on youtube, hoping to catch glimpses of the world my parents were in when they were young.

A mosaic of Andy Warhol's 1964-1966 Screen Tests, wonderfully put together by Paul Schrank, 2020:

Video from Paul Schrank's youtube channel

From the 1963 movie Summer Holiday - one that my dear mother would have loved to watch again before she passed away 40 days ago - is A Swinging Affair, a duet by Cliff Richard and Grazina Frame:

Video from rockinkid58's youtube channel

The Same Thing Looks Different

Jen Aitken from her solo exhibition The Same Thing Looks Different currently at the Power Plant, Toronto ...

The site-specific Outline:

Altered Cylinder A (Reaching), B (Crouching) and C(Standing):

Second Sentiment

Ella Gonzales from the group exhibition In Parallel currently at the Power Plant, Toronto ...

Second Sentiment:

Follow Me, First:

These Days

Emmanuel Osahor's installation These Days currently showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Toronto:

Electric Counterpoint III

An interpretation of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint 3rd Movement, Röyksopp's Electric Counterpoint (True To Original Edit), 2010:

From gucci2004's youtube channel

Material Redistribution

Panya Clark Espinal's project Material Redistribution - A Collective Endeavour is currently showing at Open Studio, Toronto:

With A Difference

Francisco-Fernando Granados from his solo exhibition With A Difference currently at Open Studio, Toronto:

Forest On Location + Collage

Stills of Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács's video Forest On Location, from their solo exhibition Man Is In The Forest currently showing at A Space Gallery, Toronto:

Holly Chang's Collage and Tapestry from the show Proof 29 just closed this past weekend at Gallery 44, Toronto:

Love Is Blue + Another Day

Paul Mauriat's Love Is Blue, 1968:

Video from jthyme's youtube channel

Air's Another Day, from their 2004 album Talkie Walkie:

Video from Iannis's youtube channel

To Look Without Fear + Osgoode

Although I have seen most of the work shown here from his previous shows elsewhere, it's good to see my very favourite Wolfgang Tillmans finally showing here at home.  His survey exhibition To Look Without Fear now at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto:

Toronto TTC's Osgoode Station:

OKG@50

From the 50th Anniversary Group Show currently at Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto ...

Robert Fones's Liquitex I and II and Barbara Hobot's Large Net Tangle #1:

Ken Nicol's Go Fuck Yourself 18,262 Times - Four Colour:

Linda Martinello's Stepping Stones:

Ron Shuebrook's Monkey Rope Revisited (For Olga):

Luca Soldovieri's Grandmother's Pearl Necklace and Gerald Ferguson's Period #8:

A Soldovieri close-up:

Groat + Al Qasimi

Part of this year's Contact Photography Festival ...

Just closed recently, Maggie Groat's solo exhibition Double Pendulum at Contact Gallery, Toronto:

Farah Al Qasimi's Stray Flowers In Swimming Pool still showing at Toronto TTC's Davisville Station:

The hills are alive

One of the last songs/movies my mother and I listened to/watched together before she left this world 19 days ago ...  the achingly beautiful Sound Of Music (Reprise) from the 1965 film The Sound Of Music:

Video from luvhhue's youtube channel

I'll go to the hills when my heart is lonely ...

Field Notes

From the exhibition Field Notes at Varley Art Gallery, Markham 2023 ...

Winnie Truong:

F.H. Varley: