State of Blurry Border

For most of my life, I've had a short attention span in art museums. Things have often felt too abstract or the art practice too specialized to feel digestible. It's only been within the past decade that I discovered sculpture parks and honed in on art that I found exciting - larger than life forms that stirred curiosity and imagination in me. So I'm not sure what I was expecting when I walked into the Art Gallery of Ontario last week, but whatever it was - what I got was better. I spent over an hour with a collection of work by Pacita Abad, a Filipino-American artist whose colorful, large-sca...