Category: Darby Milbrath

Work by Darby Milbrath

Sacred Choral Mix by Darby Milbrath

April 22, 2020

Sacred Choral music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods were written as devotional hymns for those seeking solace and inspiration in a violent, troubled world. Saint Hildegard von Bingen who was an abbess, mystic and composer, spent most of her 80 years shut away in isolation, in an obscure hilltop monastery in the Rhineland. The songs she composed came to her in mystic visions, which she wrote for her nuns to sing at their devotions. On today’s new moon, let’s take inspiration from the saints and set intentions to begin new projects today.

Barn Hallows Halloween Special – Darby Milbrath

October 29, 2019

WARNING: The music you are about to hear is terrifying, not for the faint of heart. For this years’ annual Halloween mix from Darby Milbrath, we’re treated to a truly fearsome sound collage that may just bring you to tears. Spirit music, harmonic chants, nuns,…

Jane Corrigan’s Length of Day

November 19, 2018

In getting to know Jane Corrigan’s paintings in her recent exhibition, Length of Day at Erin Stump Projects, it’s helpful to delineate the four humours of Hippocratic medicine in ancient and medieval times. The humours were based on the balance of what was believed as the four distinct bodily fluids: Blood, Yellow and Black Bile and Plegm.

Darby Milbrath’s Halloween Mix

October 31, 2018

Darby Milbrath returns for her annual Halloween mix of scary classical and ambience music. Warbling strings that are thought to be made by the devil. Artwork by Nick Bierk. Darby Milbrath is a Toronto based artist and editor at Editorial. See more of her work HERE.…

Brian Rideout in the Garden Room

October 10, 2018

QUARRIED MARBLE, 2018, foam, plaster, acrylic, wood Images Courtesy of MKG127 Enter a gallery room containing paintings of pictures, decoratively hung, warmly lit. The first work before us is not a painting of a space or the objects within it, but is a representational painting…

Symbolisms at Cooper Cole

November 25, 2017

Symbolisms: A review of the group show at Cooper Cole by Darby Milbrath. Highlights of the show include Isabelle Fein’s small, romantically playful paintings, Katharina Hoeglinger’s dreamily fluid still life’s and Rachelle Sawatsky’s wildly morbid expressionist painting.

Autumn Dread ~ Halloween Mix by Darby Milbrath

October 25, 2017

Autumn Dread is an ominous arrangement of melancholic and morbid baroque and chamber orchestral music: bleak solo piano, uneasy strings, choral hymns, ballet adagio suites from mystical fairytales, and foreboding sci-fi and horror film scores. These eerie harmonies and dissonances, compiled by expressionist painter Darby…

Paintings by Matthew Wong

October 22, 2017

Matthew Wong is a self-taught painter instinctually navigating his internal rhythms as a way of processing and responding to the visual and cerebral world around him.

Ladislav Guderna

May 4, 2017

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 An Exclusive Interview with the Surrealist’s Granddaughter Christina Kenton and the Guderna Family by Darby Milbrath I first saw Ladislav Guderna’s surrealist paintings a few months ago online and was surprised that I’d never heard of him before. Guderna’s grand-daughter, Christina,…

Streaming: Dylan Aiello’s Knowithall

May 4, 2017

PHOTOS BY KRISTIE MULLER INTRODUCTION BY DARBY MILBRATH INTERVIEW BY ROSA AIELLO On first meeting Dylan Aiello, I am taken aback by how present he is. He is one of those people with dancing eyes, like he was struck by lightning and has electricity coursing through…

Claire Greenshaw: Mother Tongue

April 9, 2017

INTERVIEW BY DARBY MILBRATH Mother Tongue at Clint Roenisch Gallery 9 March – 15 April, 2017 190 Saint Helens Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Mother Tongue is as if Claire Greenshaw pressed pause and all of a sudden these domestic moments and fragments of the mundane and…

Tilly Lawless on Burnout, Love, and Judgement

April 5, 2017

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Tilly Lawless is one of the many “faces of prostitution.” She is a queer writer, university grad, and equestrian living and working as a sex worker in Australia. I found Tilly through social media and was taken aback by her intimate…

Katie Lyle: Why Do I Hear the Ocean in my Ear?

March 29, 2017

INTERVIEW BY DARBY MILBRATH Naturally, I wanted to sit down and talk to Katie Lyle as we’re both female painters from Victoria, working in Toronto, and interested in representations of the female figure in motion. She toils away at portraiture painting, building layer upon layer…

A Chapel for Light: Camille Jodoin-Eng

March 17, 2017

Plaza by Camille Jodoin-Eng Gladstone Art Hut, February 23-26th, 2017 Interview by Darby Milbrath Video by Brittany Shepherd I like to think about the transitionary nature of a space. This space was a cafe once. Then it was hollowed out and empty, waiting to become a…

Interview with Tony Romano

February 6, 2017

Interview with Tony Romano, and review of his solo show New Work: 2014-2016 at Clint Roenisch. by Darby Milbrath Let me try and describe this to you. Walking into Tony Romano’s show at Clint Roenisch gallery you see a poster for a film and a welded…

Laurie Kang: Line Litter at Franz Kaka

January 25, 2017

TEXT BY DARBY MILBRATH & YANIYA LEE Pink guts, bones, and bodily fluids girdled by fleshy silicone frames and attached like vertebrae on an undulating spinal cord, Laurie Kang’s new solo show Line Litter is clinical, somatic and tense. I wanted to touch everything, yet…

Review: Often By Inertia

January 13, 2017

VIDEO BY BRITTANY SHEPHERD INTRO TEXT BY DARBY MILBRATH Robert Anthony O’Halloran’s Often By Inertia 11/26/2016 was a temporary sculptural exhibition in a public storage unit in Toronto. He came to occupy it after transitioning out of a long term relationship. This work is a…

Jay Isaac And Mark Delong: Thoughts On The Rocks

July 24, 2016

Mark Delong, Locally Refreshed, 2016, 20×27, cotton thread on cardboard I’m reminded here of my older brother in his awkward prepubescence; playing lego games in solitude, tumbling rocks and building model airplanes. The clashing colours and patterns of the clothes he wore. The ego, the…