My Highlights from Art Toronto 2014

This being Canada's top art fair, I concentrated on works from young, mid-career and senior artists, which I think easily stand up to the best of art fairs internationally.

My Selection:

Callum Schuster, untitled #3.'14, 2014, at O’Born Contemporary

There is a fair amount of this type of process-based, minimal, textured work now and Callum is one of the best young artists to do it. Who needs to go to Brooklyn? 

Valérie Blass, Ne pas essayer à la maison, 2013, at PARISIAN LAUNDRY 

Valerie is Canada's most inventive sculptor, working in every possible material. No two works look alike. 

Garry Neill Kennedy, QUID PRO QUO, 2013, at Diaz Contemporary

Garry's work is really important and political. Ed Ruscha with a conscience. As a lawyer, how could I not love this one? 

David R. Harper, I Tried, and I Tried and I Tried, 2012, at MKG127

Making embroidery very cool and interesting is no mean feat. 

Lynne Cohen, Untitled, 2013, at Olga Korper Gallery

The great Lynne Cohen, who just passed away leaving a gaping hole in Canadian art. Where have the people gone? What is this weird space? Great art raises questions...

Brendan Tang, Manga Ormolu Ver. 5.0-p, 2014, at Gallery Jones

Love Brendan's work and have since the first time I saw it in a group sculpture show at The PowerPlant. Ming Dynasty meets robots. Ceramics to make you think and smile. 

Paul Butler, Untitled (Jazz series) 301LT03L, 2014, at Galerie Division

Epitome of an artist's artist, Paul's new series is smart. 

John Vanderpant, Untitled (Towers in White variant), 1934, at Stephen Bulger Gallery

Vanderpant is totally under-rated and influential, and would be recognized in the pantheon of modernist photography had he worked in New York.

Explore Art Toronto 2014 on Artsy.