Christopher Boffoli’s whimsical photo art is on exhibit this month in a group exhibition at Marcia Rafelman Fine Arts gallery in Toronto. Boffoli uses meticulously hand painted railway model figures ...

Katja Van den Enden’s mixed media works have the sheen of innovative artistry.  Strong technique, the creative fusion of acrylics & resin and imaginative themes that include cellular patterns are ...

The lively lines and bold colors of Amela Subasic’s paintings, drawings and collages give her work a contemporary sensuality. (Above: Daydreaming, Collage, Ink, and Acrylic on Paper) Subasic’s nudes attract ...

These large-scale watercolors, 3-D paperworks and linoleum prints by Lynne McIlvride Evans flow from her time at Can Serrat Artist Residency, at the foot of Montserrat in Catalonia, Spain. The powerful mysticism of the mountain had a profound impact on her work. (Above: Montserrat Mountain, ) -Cirque (a bowl-shaped indentation in a mountain). “Montserrat is [...]

Andrew Briggs‘ widely varied art work won him a People’s Choice award at the Toronto Artist Project earlier this month.  From schematic style architecture to celebrities, Briggs works on canvas and glass. He learned screen printing while working at a commercial printer’s.  (Above: Madonna, 48 x 48″ on canvas)  -Alley, 8 x 10,” wood panel [...]

Photo artist Deborah Samuel’s lyrical images reflect the frailty of life.  Elegy, her upcoming exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, features more than 30 haunting photos of afterlife bones and shells, created with clinical precision. (Above: Cobra II, 2011) -Barred Owl, 2012 Ten of the photographs are specimens from the ROM’s own collections.  The exhibit, [...]

Vancouver-based art student Janice Wu is capturing significant attention with her images of everyday items most of us wouldn’t look at twice. Wu – a student at Emily Carr University – says she explores “how seemingly worthless objects have potential for whimsy and how the ‘inanimate’, mundane can reveal poetic and narrative possibilities.” The pencil [...]

Graham Gillmore uses caustic text as an art form within edgy and often controversial work, some of it on exhibit at the Monte Clark Gallery. (Above: Custody and Access Study (Results #2), Mixed media on ledger paper mounted on canvas) -Untitled (Cinderella, 2nd Version), Oil and enamel on panel The Vancouver-born international artist is widely [...]

The latest whimsical watercolors from Wallace Edwards have the same quirky styling that has characterized his books since he won his first Governor General’s award for children’s illustration a decade ago. You can flip through that prize-winning work, called Alphabeasts, by going to this link and clicking the pages. Above: The Passing Parade (2011) 29.5 [...]

These paintings by artist and educator Suzanne Tevlin are part of a wide body of work that includes series on Darwin, The Weather and Dante’s Divine Comedy.   The University of Toronto lecturer, art historian and writer has an international reputation that has prompted invitations from museums across Europe and North America.  (Above: Tornado,  charcoal & [...]

The Canadian Museum of Civilization is celebrating the covers of Juno award-winning albums through early April, including this one from the Parachute Club, winner of the 1987 award for best design. -Neon Bible, the 2008 winner, was the second album by Canadian indie band Arcade Fire. The museum’s two special displays mark the 2012 Canadian [...]

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• Jannick Deslauriers: Fragile sculptures in thread 02/29/2012
• Roof topping: Traveling Up to Shoot Down 01/30/2012
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• Katja Van den Enden: The Sheen of Imagination 04/04/2012
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