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• Echoes and refractions
  Two very fine solo exhibitions are showing in evocative and resonant counterpoise at the Christina Parker Gallery. Michael Gough's "From the ...
• Petals and paint
  Spring, taken as a season, may not always be recognizable as such in Newfoundland and Labrador, but it does have its portents. The 19 visual ...
• Writer discovers Jewish heritage
  Alison Pick is the featured speaker for this year's Holocaust Memorial Service, and she has a fairly intimate story to tell. Pick, whose ...
• ‘Abracadabra energy’
  “Outport Lights’ is a solo exhibition by Brenda McClellan, 41 oil on canvas paintings of settlements and coves and lighthouses and shorelines in ...
• Bringing the spring
  “Wrap Yourself in Warm Colours for Winter” is a big group show — 16 or more visual artists, and many with two or more works. There are pieces in ...
• Reflecting on ‘The New Romantics’
  As a word, “romantic” seems intimately connected to “love”, denoting something amorous and perhaps impractical. But as an art style it signifies ...
• Red Ochre Gallery features versatile group
  There is a challenge to reviewing a group exhibition which is neither anchored by theme nor linked to a small gathering of artists — which is ...
• The 12 artists of Christmas
  A dozen artists are featured in Leyton Gallery Christmas show, which just makes it a match for the Twelve Days of Christmas. Also, Anthony Barton ...
• The cruelty and beauty of nature
  These paired exhibitions are a study in contrasts. One is rimed with frost and immersed in cold, the other cast in warmth and steeped with ...
• ‘New Works’ reveal a different world
  An exhibition that conjures up images or echoes of fairy tales, Marc Chagall’s avant-gardism and Terry Sawchuk has got something very deep and ...
• Short solos share elements, take different tacks
  The Festival of New Dance’s fourth program opened in the early evening with two short solos: Catherine Wright’s “Where My Soul Fits In” and ...
• Performer astounding in ‘Cible de Dieu’
  The second night of the Festival of New Dance launched with a piece that reinforced what the event is all about. Its program can include a type ...
• Festival of New Dance opens with flair, colour
  The 21st Festival of New Dance opened Tuesday night with flourish and a full house at the Resource Centre for the Arts. The first part of the ...
• Flocks of fantasy
  “Bestiary” is a group exhibition of eight artists gathered around the theme of animals. The title also means “a compendium of beasts” and dates ...
• Double show at the Leyton showcases two artists’...
  Sue Miller’s “Coastal Affair” and Iakov Afanassiev’s “Purgation of Superfluities” are an exciting and informed contrast in what can be wrought ...
• New era unveiled
  When Christina Parker first started representing artists, her working space was portable. She had one client, Scott Goudie, who had called and ...
• New exhibit: ‘Summer Dreams’
  “Summer Dreams” is a solo show of 15 new acrylic paintings from Toby Rabinowitz. They feature what we have come to see as her idiosyncratic ...
• Artists inspired by outdoors
  A visual artist looks at the world, and then wields that vision into form. They use their sight, and their insight, to craft their observation ...
• Running through Paris
  Can you run in Paris? It was early last summer when I began planning a dream trip — a week in Paris. The date was late April, the plane tickets ...
• Apple of his eye
  When Olivia Brown was born April 4, 1995 at the Grace Hospital, family friend and visual artist Ron Pelley had also been admitted there, as he ...
• Material world
  For pure lyric fusion of form and function, there’s not much that beats a silver bowl. The shape is both organic and geometric, the matter a ...
• Artist pays ‘Homage’ to the subject and the viewer
  This retrospective follows a significant exhibition in America at the St. Louis University, where the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art ...
• ‘Passages’ and ‘Interrelationships’
  George Horan’s “Passages” is a solo exhibition of landscapes from around Newfoundland and Labrador, worked in watercolours. In his artist ...
• The art of aging well
  In the movie “The First Wives Club,” actor Goldie Hawn famously defined the three roles for women in Hollywood film: babe, district attorney and ...
• Louder than words
  In “Witness,” Po Chun Lau and Heather Reeves are two visual artists gesturing to each other across a spectrum of media and touching at a ...
• Visual Arts Top 10
  No. 1The Work. Gerald Squires’ “Blaze of Heaven.” Yes, OK, I’ve chosen a painting by Squires again, but I make no apologies. To look at this ...
• Exhibition features ‘The Works’
  If solo exhibitions are a vehicle for one artist’s vision, and duets or a group show configure around a sensibility, or a subject, then an ...
• Personal landscapes
  Painter Barbara Pratt has a signature style: gorgeous objects meticulously observed and lushly presented. She did a lot of big paintings that ...
• Holiday artistry
  This group show, The Leyton Gallery’s closing exhibition for the year, is arranged for Christmas time. But these 14 visual artists featured ...
• Settled
  “The Resettlement of Grand Bruit” includes 16 oil paintings, scenes from the south coast community more than one visual artist has called the ...