Lorette C. Luzajic is an assemblage artist who has exhibited all over the world and particularly in Canada. Her work has been collected by collectors from over forty countries and recent exhibitions in Toronto include Propeller Gallery, 21 St. Clair Ave E, Gerrard Art Space, Northern Contemporary Gallery, and Blue Crow Gallery. Recent international exhibitions include Menil'8 in Paris and Black Box Gallery in A Coruña, Spain. Lorette is also a writer and founding editor of The Ekphrastic...

Bert Leveille is an installation and video artist as well as a light designer who has exhibited extensively in Illinois since 1971. She has also exhibited multiple times in Los Angeles. Recent solo features includes multiple showings at Starline Gallery in Harvard, Illinois and her collective exhibitions include several inclusions at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art as well as Blue Moon Gallery in Grayslake, Illinois, and Stola Contemporary Art in Chicago.  The light design and tapestry...

artwork by Van O (Ivan Isaev) Much of the contemporary art world is based on illusory aspects of power. There are of course the supposed gatekeepers, but who are these people and do they really determine the threshold of access? They are the museum / gallery director, the curator, the art critic (and critical art publications), the academic scholar, and the financier. These various roles and individuals have been granted the collective power of determining what is art. But what exactly makes...