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Hi, Art!

Sunday, May 02, 2021

Hi, Art!

Sunday, May 02, 2021

Hi, art lovers!

 
Happy Sunday. As predicted, vaxxies are everywhere, and while I don’t know how many gen-Xers you personally follow on Instagram, post-jab evidence is the No. 1 genre of “visual content” I’ve been consuming the last couple weeks. It is wonderful. 

When not congratulating friends and colleagues of a certain age, I was dreaming of scoring the vax here and here (or just anywhere, period). I scrolled Instagram endlessly without ever reaching a digital resting point. (If tranquil and quotidian “vibes” were what I wanted, I guess I should’ve joined TikTok.) I slapped a sticker in the shape of a wineglass on the October page of my agenda (because the Luminato Festival has been rescheduled for fall). I very much related to this essay about fat-shaming in the entertainment industry (despite never having worked in the entertainment industry). I learned that computers are getting better at writing (and there are several uncomfortable thoughts to be thinking about that).

Other items: Signs make a city. How subscriptions took over our lives. NFTs remain confounding, but at least the kid from the Disaster Girl meme can pay off her student loans.
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
A photo of artist Courtney Mattison standing in a white-walled gallery in front of a large-scale relief sculpture of fantastical underwater life. The artwork is 3D and mounted on the wall. It is a blend of all-white sculptural forms and colourful items in blrown, pink, green, yellow, blue and muddy green. The artist is a slim white woman wearing a collared long-sleeve blue shirt and black skinny jeans with black and white slides. She wears her light-brown hair pulled tightly away from her face and holds her arms in front of her body.

@courtneycoral/Instagram

Great Barrier relief sculpture! See more by Courtney Mattison on Instagram.

 
Photo by Max Dean set in what appears to be a lecture hall or operating theatre. A woman with wavy silver hair wears a dark suit and stands in front of a table arranged with anatomical models. Behind her are two rows of male mannequins and the artist Max Dean. All are white men wearing different dark coloured clothes.

@stephenbulgergallery/Instagram

This year’s Contact Photography Festival launched Saturday, and Toronto’s Stephen Bulger Gallery is presenting Still – Living Through Cancer and Covid, new photos (plus an “evolving installation”) by Max Dean. More details on that particular show over here.
 
Black and white photo of a torn black garbage bag blown against a wire farm fence. A big sky fills the background and grass can be seen growing from the bottom of the frame.

@wesbell_photo/Instagram

Thanks to Wes Bell in Medicine Hat, Alta., for sharing photos (including this one) from his series Snag. Explore his website to read the personal story that inspired the work.
 
Colour pencil drawing by Donna Huddleston. Two figures, both white women, face the viewer with blank expressions. Rendered softly in pastel colours they both wear tight bodices and wide skirts. They both mimic the same posture, much like someone holding a phone to their face.

@simonleegallery/Instagram

Costume Drama by Donna Huddleston.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Photo of a green bandshell at Hamilton's Gage Park on a grey cloudy day. On the stage stands a person wearing a cartoonish costume resembling a male mallard duck, with a green head, grey and brown body and orange legs.

Geoff Fitzgerald

 

Have you seen this duck?

Meet Lewis Mallard, the bird/artist who’s been quacking up the people of Hamilton, Ont.
 
Illustration of the poet Yusuf Saadi against a beige background. He is a Black man with short black hair wearing an aubergine jacket and light grey shirt. He looks up and smiles a slight closed-mouth smile. Text reads: Poetic License, Root Canal by Yusuf Saadi from Pluviophile
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Catch up on Poetic License

 
Start with a poem by Montreal’s Yusuf Saadi, one of this year’s nominees for the Griffin Poetry Prize. 
 
Collage of eight dancers and two mauve rectangles in a 10 rectangle grid.

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Because International Dance Day

Can newsletters have digital resting points? Let’s say yes. Here is a video of eight Canadian dancers doing their happy thing.
 
 

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Andrew Budziak

@andrew_budziak
Colour photo of a small chickadee on a budding branch raising it's tiny wings as though it's about to take flight. A clear blue sky grounds the scene.

@andrew_budziak/Instagram

Andrew’s known for his wildlife photography and he made a video that’ll teach you how to level up your Instagram. If you’ve been following the #HelloSpringCBC hashtag, his tips will come in handy. And that’s especially true if “spring” isn’t all sunshine and cherry blossoms where you live. 
 

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I’m Leah Collins, senior writer at CBC Arts. Until next time!

 
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