If you’re hooked on Instagram, then you’re already aware of the growing influence of art and images on everyday life. “The internet has brought a much greater awareness and openness to all art,” says homeowner Pamela Meredith, an independent art curator who, for five years, was the senior curator for TD Bank Group. For the last…
Toronto’s Birch Contemporary celebrates 30 years, while the Susan Hobbs Gallery considers motion in art by Kate Taylor In his first year in business on Toronto’s Danforth Avenue, Robert Birch overheard one pundit standing outside his storefront predicting this new gallery wouldn’t last six months. Thirty years and multiple locations later, Birch Contemporary is showing…
Eighty-eight years ago, Marcel Duchamp coined the term mobile for the hanging artworks of Alexander Calder. The word implied movement but was also a pun: ‘mobile’ in French means motive. One year ago, Nancy Hass posited in the New York Times that artists have avoided making mobiles until recently as Calder’s legacy loomed too large. Perhaps so,…
In early February members viewed curator Pamela Meredith’s collection which has a focus on paper works and utilitarian items. Highlights of the collection include Geoffrey Farmer’s fountain drawings, featuring works that predate his 2017 exhibit (on the similar theme) at the Venice Biennale.
Featuring artists: Lorna Bauer, Diane Borsato, Vanessa Brown, Maryanne Casasanta, Tania Kitchell, HaeAhn Kwon
Talking art as an investment with TD’s Senior Art Curator Pamela Meredith on What She Said! with Christine Bentley & Kate Wheeler airs on The Jewel Radio Network.
by Pamela Meredith There’s a rainbow spotlight hitting most of our art institutions this summer as galleries citywide honour and celebrate WorldPride. With exhibitions from Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari’s The End of Time, a deeply personal video and photo installation at The Power Plant, to What it Means to be Seen, an exhibition curated by…
By Pamela Meredith Five female artists break new ground In a recent column I expressed my admiration for five powerful public artworks in Toronto. As it turns out, all five were created by male artists. I made this selection truthfully and without any preconceived categorization, but the Guerilla Girl in me isn’t thrilled with this…
by Pamela Meredith Never mind the art fair’s bleak setting, the art provides plenty of soul I remember my first time clearly. I was completely turned off. My first art fair was so vast, so blatantly commercial and, as it was 20 years ago in Europe, everyone was smoking! Around the art! I was quite…
Sometimes an exhibition is so surprising, challenging and ambitious that it inspires wonder and open-ended reflection followed by a most mundane question: “how did he do it?”