Press
Between the lines of abstraction
Written by John Pohl
Published in The Gazette, May 5, 2012
"The New York school also influenced John Fox, a Montreal figurative painter who devoted 15 years in mid-career to abstraction, and then returned to figuration. Battat Contemporary is showing some of his abstract works, which are all about line and gesture." Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Between+lines+abstraction/6568869/story.html#ixzz1uJ5ElfJp
See complete text: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Between+lines+abstraction/6568869/story.html
Related Exhibition: Abstractions
Related Artists: John Fox
Sophie Jodoin & Papier 12 @ Salut Bonjour
Written by Salut Bonjour @ TVA
Published in TVA, April 28, 2012
Entrevue avec l'artiste Sophie Jodoin @ TVA dans le cadre de la foire Papier12. --- Interview with Sophie Jodoin @ TVA during Papier12 Art fair.
See complete text: http://tva.canoe.ca/video/1559759444001
Related Artists: Sophie Jodoin
John Fox, Abstractions : Quand Venise, ses graffitis et son stucco deviennent sources d’inspiration
Written by Caroline Lévesque
Published in pieuvre.ca, April 21, 2012
" C’est une exposition intime, dans laquelle il se tisse une continuité dans les thèmes et les textures des toiles. La plupart des œuvres exposées sont inspirées des nombreux séjours de l’artiste à Venise, ville qu’il affectionnait particulièrement et où il est décédé en 2008."
See complete text: http://www.pieuvre.ca/2012/04/20/john-fox/
Related Exhibition: Abstractions
Related Artists: John Fox
Canada at the New York Fairs: Art from the Upper North Side
Written by BILL CLARKE
Published in Canadian Art, March 15, 2012
" Volta first-timers Battat Contemporary presented an elegant arrangement of new collages and drawings by Sophie Jodoin bookended by two larger works—Close Your Eyes (2012), a black glass piece with the work’s titular words sandblasted into it, and the charcoal-and-pastel drawing Untitled (feet) (2012), in which a woman’s strappy-heeled feet dangle disturbingly from the top of the picture frame."
See complete text: http://www.canadianart.ca/online/2012/03/15/nyc-fairs-bill-clarke2012/
Related Artists: Sophie Jodoin
Hard Bargains
Written by Meaghan Thurston
Published in RoverArts.com, March 10, 2012
In Flag Deconstruction, paint drips and brush swirls synthesize with diamond-shaped negative spaces. Ember-orange, white and black spheres commune with ink-black floral motifs. The large, layered abstract canvas Enigmatic Revelation, my favorite piece in the exhibition, showcases a levitating fountain-pyramid. In all of the works, geometrical shapes relate to each other, creating a diversity of forms.
See complete text: http://roverarts.com/2012/03/hard-bargains/
Related Exhibition: Further Negotiations
Related Artists: Kamrooz Aram
John Ancheta@Ten Words and One Shot
Written by Ten Words and One Shot
Published in Ten Words and One Shot, March 2, 2012
home Unkai No Soheki by Tsurubami treasure Sky by Cotton Casino fame I Am Very Far by Amanaz engine O Relógio by Os Mutantes
See complete text: http://tenwordsandoneshot.com/john-ancheta/
Related Artists: John Ancheta
Get Framed
Written by Sasha Jackson
Published in Mirror , January 13, 2012
Battat Contemporary (7245 Alexandra, #100) kicks off the year with work by Winnipeg artist and Columbia Universtity grad Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, whose exhibit Nervous Lattice looks set to excite—if the cut-out invitations are anything to go by (Jan. 19–Feb. 25)!
See complete text: http://www.montrealmirror.com/wp/2012/01/12/get-framed/
Related Exhibition: Nervous Lattice / Treillis Nerveux
Related Artists: Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline
Rentrée automnale 2011 : partie 6 — John Ancheta «HABITAT»@ Battat contemporary
Written by Eloi Desjardins
Published in Un show de mot'arts, September 22, 2011
John Ancheta amorce la saison septembrale de cette galerie privée située dans le no man’s lands entre la Petite Italie et Parc-Extension. «HABITAT» présente une dizaine de toiles qui impressionneront plusieurs autant par leurs compositions que par l’épaisseur de la peinture appliquée sur leurs surfaces
See complete text: http://www.unshowdemotarts.net/?p=2902
Related Exhibition: HABITAT
Related Artists: John Ancheta
Sophie Jodoin
Written by James D. Campbell
Published in Magenta Magazine, March 17, 2011
Sophie Jodoin is attempting something truly remarkable in her recent work: to name the darkness in our nature, going where angels fear to tread, as it were, in this pursuit, and palpably evoking the tremendum, or nameless Other, in the process. Her true subject matter is specifying this demonic alterity that threatens to swallow us whole and deprive us of our human wherewithal. She is a connoisseur of pain and we are, at first, unwilling voyeurs. But, soon enough and strangely, we never want to turn away.
See complete text: http://www.magentamagazine.com/6/exhibition-reviews/sophie-jodoin
Related Artists: Sophie Jodoin
Immodest Modesty
Written by Robert Enright
Published in Border Crossings Magazine, March 14, 2011
Toronto painter Beth Stuart talks about her painting in a way that confirms how good you already think it is. (Her recent collection of paintings and sculpture, called “two sticks in a shed” was on exhibition from January 14 to February 26 at Battat Contemporary in Montreal.)
See complete text: http://www.bordercrossingsmag.com/issue117/article/2841
Related Exhibition: two sticks in a shed
Related Artists: Beth Stuart