Talent Scouts
The sheer volume of art production in Toronto can be daunting. Galleries, alternate spaces, collective happenings, video screenings,
private studio showings—the venues are many and scattered, and only a select group of individuals (sometimes salaried by
institutions, sometimes freelance independents) have the job of keeping an ongoing critical grasp of it. These are the curators,
who work in and outside institutional spaces to forge programming that endeavours to showcase new art to its best advantage
and present a compelling picture of contemporary practice to a diverse array of audiences. When curators do their job right, they
become the invisible hand shaping the course of our developing art history.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Camilla Singh (MOCCA), Ben Portis (AGO), Barbara Fischer (Justina M. Barnicke Gallery), Nancy Campbell, Gregory Elgstrand (YYZ Artists’ Outlet), Michelle Jacques (AGO), Dave Dyment (Mercer Union), Helena Reckitt (The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery) and Barr Gilmore. Photographed outside Monte Clark Gallery, the Distillery District, Tuesday, September 25, 2007.
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