This Week at the AGO - Making Connections

Each week during my volunteer shift at the Art Gallery of Ontario, I try to find something interesting as I float around the galleries - discover new works, stop a little longer in front of an old work , think about new themes for tours.  So I'm going to try posting weekly about whatever catches my fancy at the gallery

This week it's making connections.  I often find myself making connections between works, such as a share aesthetic, or different ways artist grapple with issues of representation (such as, death, bodies in motion, colours, etc.).  Sometimes it's a piece with another artist that inspired it.  Sometime it's two sides to the same story. I'll start with a few this week and add on.  Enjoy!

Here is a piece from Art Rental with detail from a Peter Doig.

Here is Frank Stella with Frank Gehry's serpentine staircase.

Here is Emily Carr and Steven Andrews