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A guide to the best exhibitions and events in the visual arts
Following its hit run at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Burtynsky’s major touring exhibition “Oil” stops at The Rooms with 50-plus large-scale photo works depicting the conflicted realities and paradoxical beauties of a petroleum-dependent world. To Aug. 15. The Rooms, 9 Bonaventure Ave., St. John’s, NL.
A group exhibition curated by Shauna McCabe finds common ground among collaborative projects based on sustainable land use and local identity. Until Sept. 22. Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 145 Richmond St., Charlottetown, PEI.
This exhibition by Gerald Ferguson came out of his desire to continue to paint landscapes, but this time from his car, a technique he called plein air en voiture. He was keen to see what would come out of using a paintbrush again after about 40 years of avoiding it. His enthusiasm was infectious: Jerry would hold up the dirtiest painting in the studio and wait to see your reaction—he loved to see you grapple with it. This was the artist’s last prepared exhibition for the gallery before his death in 2009. It’s difficult to guess what Jerry would have wanted, but as the work is complete and waiting in crates in his studio, showing it now seems like the right thing to do.
Victoria Strange is the co-owner and co-director of Gallery Page and Strange. Gerald Ferguson’s solo exhibition “Landscapes 2008–09” is on view there between March 12 and April 2, 1869 Granville St., Halifax, NS.
Horror-film tropes meet DIY aesthetics in the Saskatchewan-based multidisciplinary artist’s solo exhibition “In Search of Desire,” which features photo and video installations that employ humour and notions of the spectacular to explore issues of nihilism and emotional frustration. Opening May 20. Gallery Connexion, 470 York St., Fredericton, NB.
Professional musicians are joined by mothers and children to give collective voice to fraught family relationships in this collaborative sound and video installation co-presented by the Art Gallery of Mississauga. Continuing to May 2. Dunlop Art Gallery, 2311–12th Ave., Regina, SK.
The curator Mireille Eagan gathers more than 20 artists, including Paulette Phillips, Jack Chambers, David Rokeby, Garry Neill Kennedy and Stephen Waddell, for a show that taps into the psychological and allegorical charge of liminal spaces and surveys “geographies of the everyday.” On view to May 16. Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 145 Richmond St., Charlottetown, PEI.
Remote seaside towns in Ireland and Newfoundland inspire six artists’ evocative works in sound and photography. From Feb. 25. Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, University Dr., Corner Brook, NL.
The quirky personal collection of Nova Scotia’s one-time Lieutenant-Governor, George Ramsay, reflects his considerable influence on 19th-century art in Canada. Jan. 15 to March 7. Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Ave., Halifax, NS.
Recent conceptual paintings by Shuebrook are complemented by dense, surrealist canvases by his former student (and current colleague) Carol Wainio in “Black and White with Storylines.” Curated by Peter Dykhuis, the show draws attention to the role the Halifax arts community has played in both artists’ development. To Oct. 11. Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Ave., Halifax, NS.
Strange auras of past and forgotten lives abound in Angela Carlsen’s poignant photographs of abandoned Halifax buildings. From disused schools to derelict churches and hospitals, her show “No Vacancy” forms a cautionary tale of modernist progress gone awry. July 1 to Aug. 2. (ViewPoint Gallery, 1272 Barrington St., Halifax, NS.)
Cassette players, eight-tracks and other obsolete technologies are creatively resurrected in “Sometimes Always,” a group show co-presented with the Centre for Art Tapes. To Aug. 30. (Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis St., Halifax, NS.)
Marcia Huyer’s inflated silk miniatures of famous skyscrapers offer a playful critique of human ambition. June 27 to Aug. 8. (Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Dr., St. John’s, NL.)
Five artists manipulate musical instruments into Frankensteinian art objects for the city-wide “Sound Bytes” audio-art festival to July 5. (Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Ave., Halifax, NS.)
Higgins’s tabletop models of early modern cities show alongside the award-winning cartoonist’s sprawling “Dominion City” installation until Aug. 23. (Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 145 Richmond St., Charlottetown, PEI.)
Cindy Baker spoofs the artist-as-celebrity by making performative public appearances—costumed as herself. Jan. 10 to Feb. 21. (Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Dr., St. John’s, NL.)
Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities
Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes
Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May
New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1
Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival
Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6
Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more
Films on Shary Boyle, Elmgreen & Dragset, Michel de Broin and Jon Gnarr set to open the festival on March 22
Opening-night celebration and art-industry talks highlight fifth year of fair
Don’t miss the North American premieres of films on Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, happening February 23
The 85-year-old artist Arnaud Maggs nudged out Fred Herzog and Alain Paiement as winner of the second annual Scotiabank Photography Award, announced last night in Toronto. This $50,000 win follows the opening of a major Maggs survey at the National Gallery of Canada.
As one of the primary exhibitions for Contact 2012, “Public: Collective Identity | Occupied Spaces” is ambitious. Charlene K. Lau observes that the two-venue show mirrors the fractures of contemporary life: public and private, visible and invisible, place and non-place.
In this review, writer and artist Joni Murphy considers Abbas Akhavan’s current solo show in Montreal, which activates a variety of themes—war and art, destruction and nation building, human and animal—with a distinctively light touch.
Melding William Morris-style ornamentation with more contemporary concerns, artist Luke Painter detours around dry academicism for something more vibrant and visceral. Mariam Nader reviews his current Toronto show at LE Gallery, finding depth in decoration.
Frieze opened its first New York edition last week with some surprising highlights: sculptures that were free for public viewing outside the big commercial tent. Canadian Art art director Barbara Solowan was there, and brought back this slideshow.
