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A guide to the best exhibitions and events in the visual arts
The Ontario-based artist duo unveils a new set of long-running installations that embody the ”commonplace magick” of their instantly recognizable witchy aesthetic. From June 26. Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Cres., St. Catharines.
Vast watery expanses, indeterminate ports of call and an inherent sense of longing set the stage for “a visual meditation on the state of transit in a geographical no man’s land” in the French-Algerian artist’s video work MiddleSea. Until July 24. Prefix ICA, 124–401 Richmond St. W.
A new tongue-in-cheek conceptual project has the artist developing a “custom environmental wellness fragrance” to offset the destabilizing effect of ongoing gallery renovations on the Southern Alberta Art Gallery’s staff and patrons. Cal Lane’s remarkable domestic/ utilitarian/ornamental hybrid sculptures follow in “Sweet Crude.” Until June 20/June 25 to Sept. 5. 324–5th St. S., Lethbridge.
Jeff Wall co-curates an overview of paintings by one of the pre-eminent chroniclers of 20th-century African-American life and history. To Jan. 3. Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St.
Conquerors versus conquered and decadence versus decay are two of the critical counterpoints raised by Miller in “Refining History,” a survey exhibition that brings together photos of sitespecific, azulejo-design sugar murals and new icing-sugar sculptures to re-examine the legacy of slavery and industrial trade in postcolonial Brazil. July 12 to Aug. 13. FOFA Gallery, 1515, rue Ste-Catherine O., Montreal.
Tribal rhythms, masks, animal imagery and other tropes associated with Africa all play a role in Fernandes’s interrogation of the nature-culture continuum and intercultural dynamics. To Oct. 2. Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King St. W.
The hybrid play of imagined architectural space and found digital imagery informs a suite of new objectbased paintings by the Vancouver artist. June 24 to July 25. Clark & Faria, 55 Mill St.
Temporality’s nuanced intersection with geography in the overstimulated 21st-century world is the theme of the 2010 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by this magazine’s own Richard Rhodes. Until Aug. 29. Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq., Edmonton.
Non-linear and disjunctive narrative modes are foregrounded in a group show of newmedia art. To July 11. Presentation House Gallery, 333 Chesterfield Ave., N. Vancouver.
The Montreal artist closes the reality gap between selfidentity and pop-culture obsession with her sound work ORCHESTRARIA. Pascal Dufaux’s perspective-bending “sculptural-video-kinetic automaton” The cosmos in which we are follows. Through July 4/on view July 15 to Aug. 29. Sporobole, 74, rue Albert, Sherbrooke.
Kissick balances funky exuberance with intelligent art-historical critique in “A Nervous Decade,” a ten-year survey of his explorations of the expressive conventions and languages of abstract and hybrid painting. June 18 to Sept. 5. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 101 Queen St. N.
A group exhibition of 22 Canadian and international artists explores the innate bond and uneasy balance of power between humans and the animal world. On view June 18 to Sept. 12. The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W.
Fact and fiction merge to activate new historical understandings in this group display organized by New York’s Independent Curators International. With works by an A-list cast of more than 15 international practitioners, including Cao Fei, Omer Fast, Jeremy Deller, Joachim Koester and the Montreal artist Emanuel Licha, the show posits that truth is a malleable social and political commodity best seen with a critical eye on both past and present. To Aug. 29. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W.
The Toronto artist’s long-standing interest in collecting and display practices underlies Le jardin du sommeil, an orderly “garden” of century-old cribs and cradles that adds up to a fascinating, poignant meditation on childhood and shared experience. Until Aug. 22. Prairie Art Gallery, 9839–103rd Ave., Grande Prairie.
Works by an all-star cast of Canadian and international artists form the first of a trio of exhibitions arguing for the continuing relevance of the traditional academic genres. Through Aug. 22. Contemporary Art Gallery, 555 Nelson St., Vancouver.
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.
