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Let It Burn
Let It Burn [Essay contribution to Jacked! catalogue] On Father’s Day I sat down with my Dad to talk about the spectacle mechanics of Steven Laurie’s work. Over a beer we discussed the moment where performance meets proformance and the art market meets the aftermarket. Growing up in Hamilton did you ever do burnouts? [...]
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by Stephanie Vegh From painting and sculpture to weaving and bricklaying, all crafts and trades were once equally recognized as acts of art, united by the common human need to make and counting among their number all forms of manufacture that could derive from the word’s Latin root in “making by hand.” As recently [...]
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2005 – The Record (Showcase05 @ Cambridge Galleries) 2006 – Jack Shainman Gallery (Give’r) 2007 – View on Canadian Art (Love / Hate @ Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) Akimblog by Terence Dick (Love / Hate @ Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) Akimblog by Sue Carter Flinn (Burning Rubber @ St.Mary’s University Art Gallery) Halifax [...]
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