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A guide to the best exhibitions and events in the visual arts
Indigenous artists from Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand take part in a group show subtitled “Anything that exists has a beginning” and guestcurated by Daina Warren. July 4 to Aug. 8. (Centre A, 2 W. Hastings St., Vancouver.)
The hypermobility of “images, goods, and bodies” and the resulting psychic costs are the focus of a quintet of video works curated by Liz Park and continuing on view to June 27. (Western Front, 303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver.)
The drawings that make up “Last Drop First Flame,” at Deluge Contemporary Art from July 3 to Aug. 1, grew out of the space’s history as Victoria’s first fire station. (636 Yates St.)
Say hello to eight of the defining figures of Vancouver’s new art generation in ”Exponential Future,” a not-tobe- missed exhibition that is stacked with new and previously unseen works by its up-and-coming participants. On view until April 27. (Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver.)
Environmental and economic plot lines collide in Vanessa Kwan’s disaster-themed exhibition “The Storm and the Fall,” a West Coast cautionary tale on view from Apr. 26 to June 6. (Access ARC, 206 Carrall St., Vancouver.)
From Apr. 4 to June 1, the Contemporary Art Gallery hosts a ten-year survey of the photobased work of Stephen Waddell, guest-curated by Roy Arden. (555 Nelson St., Vancouver.)
Discover photo art’s origins in “TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945,” on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery through Apr. 27. (750 Hornby St.)
Kitty Blandy puts an irreverent and revealing interspecies spin on the conventions of portraiture in “Public Life,” a show of sculptures and drawings on view Apr. 3 to 26. (Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery, 1727 W. 3rd Ave., Vancouver.)
From March 29 to May 3, SFU Gallery hosts Robert Morris’s video work The Birthday Boy, a gentle send-up of arthistorical affectation commissioned for the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David. (8888 University Dr., Burnaby.)
Western Front and Centre A co-host the first survey show of the Afghan artist Lida Abdul’s photography and films from Jan. 25 to March 1. (2 W. Hastings St./303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver.)
Until Jan. 13, Presentation House Gallery is the place to see Tim Lee’s idiosyncratic remakes of classic comedic and musical performances. (333 Chesterfield Ave., N. Vancouver.)
Alex Morrison taps into the architectural and social histories of Simon Fraser University in a new exhibition on view to Dec. 22. (Catriona Jeffries Gallery, 274 E. 1st Ave., Vancouver.)
Paradise is found and defined 24 times over by Southern Californians in a new multi-channel video work by the Turkish-born artist and filmmaker Kutlug Ataman, whose work bridges fiction and documentary and emphasizes the role that storytelling plays in the fashioning of identity. Paradise appears alongside Ataman’s powerful, prize-winning video installation Küba at the Vancouver Art Gallery beginning Feb. 9. (750 Hornby St.)
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.
