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In the Studio with Shelley Adler

By Anna Kovler
Apr, 2020

Shelley Adler’s portraits of women are striking. With a deft economy of forms she captures the enigmatic quality of the human gaze, loaded as it is with the sorrows, pleasures, and hopes of individual experience.

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In the Studio with Janet Werner

By Anna Kovler
Mar, 2020

Janet Werner has spent decades exploring the form of the portrait. Culled from fashion magazines, her women peer through thick mascara, don elaborate outfits, and inhabit bodies Werner has stretched and warped in paint.

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In the Studio with Walter Scott

By Anna Kovler
Mar, 2020

It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon as I head across town to Toronto’s east end and Walter Scott’s studio - a bright room with high ceilings where his works in progress seem camouflaged amid the studio furniture.

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