Art That Creeps provides a jarring but strangely engrossing look into the gothic and macabre in contemporary art. This assorted gallery features nine different artists who are included in the book.

The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is North America’s largest annual juried outdoor art fair. In 2009 the judges chose wisely for the Best in Show prize: David Hind captured the award, along with an honourable mention in the painting category, for his panoramic picture Ascending the Ours River.

Dave Hind "uses radical combinative imagery and themes, and he often features costumes, a crushing crowd, political critique and portrayals of the artist and his alter ego," writes Flavio Belli, who met with Hind, recent winner of Best in Show at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Hind -- artist, musician and metalworker of functional objects -- often works with reclaimed materials as you'll see in this gallery of his work.

Every summmer, artists flock to Nathan Phillips Square near City Hall in Toronto to showcase their work in North America's largest outdoor art exhibition.

I wanted to immerse myself in the Art Gallery of Ontario's "Buried Treasure" grouping, which examines the unconscious in European thought -- specifically, early-20th-century work which with its mix of surreality and expressionism is still as vital and provocative as ever.

The Power Plant of Toronto is currently showcasing a series of works from emerging, mid-career and senior Canadian sculptors. And, as the press release maintains, if the sculptors and the curators intended to produce and present work that abandons sculpture’s “traditional job of memorializing the great and the good,”  work that “revels in humble materials and everyday processes,” and work that pursues decidedly anti-aesthetic aims, the show is an unmitigated success.

"Humble materials and humble execution predominate the proceedings," writes Salvatore Difalco of Nothing to Declare, an exhibit of current sculpture from various Canadian artists now running at The Power Plant on Toronto's Harbourfront. "Adornment, comfort, elegance, luxury have fled the scene. What remains are remains." Examine some of the works of some of the featured artists in this gallery.

The erotic nature of the works of mixed-media artist Annamarie Ho brought her to the attention of TORO Sex columnist Louise Bak. From her installation "Miss Betelnut" that examined the world of girls who use sex to market the popular stimulant to the men of Taiwan, to an exhibit of intimate apparel stores of yore, to a curious collection of sex toys inspired by the work of surrealists Meret Oppenheim and Man Ray, we bring you a gallery of some of the work she discussed in detail with our Ms. Bak.

While he may be best known by fellow Canadians for Flight Stop, his whimsical geese installation at Toronto's Eaton Centre, Canadian artist Michael Snow has garnered an international reputation for his artwork, music and experimental films. Snow turns 81 this year and in celebration of his birthday, The Power Plant Gallery in Toronto is currently hosting a retrospective of his last 10 years of film and video work, with Recent Snow: Projected Works by Michael Snow.

The mixed-media collages of Montreal-based artist Guillaume Seff bring to mind the striking works of Jean-Michel Basquiat, but show a deft use of colour like that of Joan Miró. Seff is just one of many artists making Montreal a busy hub of activity these days, and the works of some of the city's most bold and interesting artists can be seen at Galerie NuEdge. Enjoy Seff's works, as displayed in this gallery, for their energy, vitality and use of colour.