Selected Essays

Artists! Save Yourselves! (June, 2025)

At this point in time, does my art matter? Does yours?

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/columns/artists-save-yourselves/

 

The Last Great Art Show (December, 2024)

What kind of art still resonates, when the world is ending?

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/the-last-great-art-show/

 

The Exploding Chameleon (April, 2024)

Experiencing Art and AI in 2024

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/columns/the-exploding-chameleon/

 

The Good, The Bad, and The Morally Ambiguous (December, 2023)

Make Art Ambiguous, Again

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/the-good-the-bad-and-the-morally-ambiguous/

 

You Want It Darker? (December, 2022)

Making art with AI will draw you to the monstrous

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/you-want-it-darker/

 

In Defence of Art From Small Places (December, 2020)

The art world would do well to turn its gaze outward, away from tired conventions and towards the periphery

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/in-defence-of-art-from-small-places/