"In Spearin's paintings didactic readings are thwarted as the surface imagery appears to be either on the verge of coalescing into some recognizable form or threatens to implode into a sensuous universe of pure abstraction."
— David Liss, Curator
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

Printed & Pressed:

Magenta Foundation Carte Blanche 2, Painting, 2008

NAME PAINTINGS Exhibition Review, Peter Dykhuis, CANADIAN ART, Summer 2004

www.Samplesize.ca Review of
Website Projects: Catherine Osborne,
National Post, March 20, 2004

NAME PAINTINGS Exhibition Review, Portia Priegert, eVent, Kelowna, BC, February 2004

NAME PAINTINGS Linda Sawchyn, Kelowna Art Gallery Journal, Issue 11, Winter 2004

NAME PAINTINGS Exhibition Review, Gil McElroy, ART PAPERS, USA, January 2004

ART e NIM Foire Inernationale D'Art Contemporain Catalogue, Nimes, France, 2003

NAME PAINTINGS Exhibition Catalogue, Essay: A Play on Name
by Ihor Holubizky, 2003

www.Samplesize.ca Web Project: Name that Painting, 2003

www.Samplesize.ca Web project: Painter's Forum, 2003-4

Art With Heart Catalogue,
Toronto, 2002

Synthetic Psychosis Exhibition Review, CANADIAN ART, Carla Garnet,
Fall 2002

Name Paintings 5163- NSCAD Magazine, Halifax, Fall 2002

Rred, Exhibition Review,
Thomas Hirschmann, NOW, Toronto, April 18, 2002

Synthetic Psychosis Exhibition Review, Carla Garnet, CANADIAN ART
Spring 2002

Synthetic Psychosis
Exhibition Publication, David Liss,
Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art, 2002

Rred, Santa Fean Magazine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, September 2001

Rred, Toronto Star, Galerie Glendon, November 2001

Fuse Harbourfront Centre,
Toronto, 2001

Redrospective Red Head Gallery, Sandra Rechico and Carol Laing, 2000

Tempus Fugit Exhibition Catalogue, Linda Jansma and Ihor Holubizky, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2000

Southwest Triennial Exhibition Catalogue, Robin Metcalfe,
Art Gallery of Windsor, 1997

Spillage Exhibition Catalogue,
Ihor Holubizky, Red Head Gallery, Toronto 1996

Re-Grouping Exhibition Video, McMicheal Art Gallery, Klienburg, 1996

SHAVE '95 Exhibition Catalogue,
Shave Farm, Somerset, England, 1995

Tom ( ) Tom C MAGAZINE,
Carol Podedworny,
Summer Edition, 1993

Call Me East London Reporter,
Andrew Meeson, February 1993

Unspeakable Exhibition Publication, Nancy Campbell, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, 1992

Living On Credit, Toronto Star,
Kathlene Byrne, September 1992

Volumes, NOW, Diedre Hanna,
Toronto, August 1991

Volumes, The Globe and Mail,
Kate Taylor, August 1991

Art Gallery of Hamilton Collection Catalogue, Ihor Holibizky,
1991, 1994-5

Southwest Biennial Exhibition Publication, Diana Nemiroff,
Art Gallery of Windsor, 1991

Reading the Water Exhibition Catalogue, Burlington Art Centre, 1991

Art in the Environment
Exhibition Catalogue,
Canada Centre for Inland Waters, 1990

Reverse Order, Hamilton Spectator, Kate Taylor, 1988

Reverse Order Exhibition Publication, Kim Ness, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1987

Local World Exhibition Scrapbook, Simon Levin,
McMaster University Art Gallery, 1986

Found and Lost Exhibition Review, VANGUARD,
Charlotte Townsend-Gault,
November 1984