Category: Canadian Painting

A Week of Canadian Painting: Nadia Gohar

Because we are a Canadian-run publication and we admire those who continue to work with the arguably dated medium of paint, in the arguably dismal landscape of the Canadian art-world, we have decided to do a week-long feature on some of our favorite current Canadian…

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A Week of Canadian Painting: Les Ramsay

Because we are a Canadian-run publication and we admire those who continue to work with the arguably dated medium of paint, in the arguably dismal landscape of the Canadian art-world, we have decided to do a week-long feature on some of our favorite current Canadian…

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A Week of Canadian Painting: Hanna Hur

In “The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer,” Susan Sontag writes, “One remarks the coolness of Pavese’s fiction, though the subject-matter is often violent. […] The typical effort of a Pavese hero is lucidity; the typical problem is that of lapsed communication.” I could very well replace Pavese’s fiction and heroes in these remarks for Hanna Hur’s paintings.

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