TYPOLOGY

Category: photography

  • Karin Bubas’ cinematic scenes


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    Ice-covered Marsh and Neapolitan Clouds,     above, was our favourite photograph in Karin Bubas’ current show at Monte Clark (closing Friday). Striking a balance between mystery and whimsy, it exerts a fascinating synaesthetic effect through its juxtaposition of the cold crispness of snow and ice with the sweet softness of colourful cotton candy clouds.

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  • The aesthetics of protest: how Occupy sees itself (chapter one)


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    Hello and thanks for visiting. We originally wrote this post at the beginning of December 2011, and as new information and events continued to unfold in the following weeks, we updated this page with fresh links and images. Now, as Occupy emerges from the winter months having given birth to an entirely new movement in contemporary visual culture, we feel it is appropriate to archive this post as a chronicle of Occupy’s visual beginnings, and allow the movement time and space to further evolve with respect to protest aesthetics in the arts and design, music and performance, giant puppets, flashmobs, bat signals, and whatever other forms it will eventually take. Thanks for the feedback and interest, and let’s all stay tuned.

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  • Alec Soth: Should artists be entertainers?


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    Taking a short break from another long day of writing, we decided to troll around for an update on the Alec Soth portrait auction announced two weeks ago via his blog, Little Brown Mushroom. In an effort to help out with medical expenses for friend and collaborator Brad Zellar, Soth is making this rare opportunity available on Ebay until November 25th. We love Soth’s work, but would never stand a chance of winning–and indeed after 8 bids by 4 individuals, the bidding stands at $8100 with g***g holding down a slim lead over the next highest bidder. Just two more days to get your bids in, folks, and all for a good cause…

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  • Fred Tomaselli at the 2011 Editions/Artists’ Book Fair


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    Over a packed four days in New York doing research for a future show, we managed to briefly stop by the Editions/Artists’ Book Fair taking place in Chelsea this past weekend. Occupying two floors of the former Dia building on West 22nd, the fair was intimate, friendly, and filled with surprises, not least of which were the many strong showings by non-New York exhibitors such as Clay Street Press (Cincinnati), Western Editions (Chicago), and High Point Center for Printmaking (Minneapolis). We’ll profile each of these organizations separately in a series of future posts, as well as New York-based standouts Specific Object and Forth Estate.

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  • The Wind Paintings of Bob Verschueren


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    Following up today’s sublime nature theme, here are some exquisitely beautiful works from the late 1970s that blur boundaries between Land Art, painting, and photography. Utilizing terre verte, burnt umber, iron oxide and other powdered substances, Verschueren worked with the land, water, and wind to create these ephemeral images.

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  • Scenes from a groundbreaking


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    Today Artscape celebrated the groundbreaking and naming of their new arts centre currently being renovated on Shaw, future home to 20+ artists and organizations including TYPOLOGY Projects. More photos after the jump!

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  • Thomas Jorion’s beautiful ruins


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    Loved these photos by Thomas Jorion, from his Silencio series. Gaping, airless, monumental… like something out of a Kubrick film.

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  • Ursus Wehrli’s new world order


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    Ursus Wehrli’s photographs propose an orderly, perhaps obsessive, way of looking at the world. Ranging in scale from the tiny (an inventory of pine needles) to the colossal (galaxies and stars ordered by size), they provide a vicariously pleasing, if transitory, sense of control over our environment.

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  • Dear Photograph


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    Fun social project at Dear Photograph, which invites viewers to submit images for display on their website. Some poignant, some silly, all fascinating trips through time.

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  • The Power Plant Refresh inaugural exhibitions, review pt 3: To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?

    continued from The Power Plant Refresh inaugural exhibitions, review pt 2: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
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    Upstairs in The Power Plant’s North Gallery, a more poetic and less overtly political mode of curatorial inquiry is represented, one which serves as a counterpoint to the ground floor exhibitions (see links to related posts below). To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong? is a group exhibition of young Canadian and American artists curated by Jon Davies, Assistant Curator at The Power Plant. Taking its title and cue from the poetry of American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, this show features fantastical landscapes from the imaginations of artists Andrea Carlson, Annie MacDonell, Kevin Schmidt, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, and Erin Shirreff.

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