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The French-Moroccan Montrealer 2Fik is a gender-bending activist and self-taught photographer who considers his debut exhibition, held at Galerie [sas], to be his coming-out as a visual artist.
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It is rare to find a creative practice that harmonizes critical thinking and positive momentum. The Vancouver-based artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, however, seem to have mastered this delicate balancing act.
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“Diabolique” is an ambitious two-part exhibition filled with images ranging from bombs to corpses and from fighter jets to, of course, penises. If the symbols seem all too familiar, that is in part the point of the show, which is as much about violence and war as about the iconographies and processes of their representation.
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In his 2009 exhibition at Blanket Contemporary Art, his first after winning the 2008 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Jeremy Hof introduces recognizably Minimalist forms into his painting, sculpture and monochromes.
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The first work that you stumble upon in Michal Rovner’s exhibition at DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art dispels any doubt about the depth of the Israeli artist’s aesthetic.
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When I first heard about “Animal House: Works of Art Made by Animals,” my first thought was: if the work itself is silly, can the theoretical context that frames it be enough to make for a compelling experience?
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The Anthony Hernandez show at the Vancouver Art Gallery has been unexpected in a number of ways.
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Human beings have an uncanny ability to seek out images where none exist. That’s why we can while away hours finding shapes in the clouds and can all see a man in the moon. It’s this notion that informs this exhibition of recent work by the Montreal-based artist Nicolas Baier.
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The anthropologist Victor Turner defined the word liminality as “betwixt and between.” It is a transitional state that involves moving between two existential planes; normal restraints on behaviour and understanding are relaxed, leading to new perspectives. Roger Ballen’s photographs epitomize this process.
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Kavavaow Mannomee is, like Annie Pootoogook and Shuvinai Ashoona, part of a third generation of Inuit artists who are drawing attention to the art made above the Arctic Circle.
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This year, Montreal has seen a surfeit of shows focusing on the connections between art, music and clubbing. In a solo exhibition at Centre d’exposition Circa, Jeanie Riddle brought a very different tone to the party with a work of silent grandeur called California.
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Terrance Houle has always been a performer. Growing up on the Canadian Prairies while his father served in the armed forces, the Calgary-based artist, who is of Blackfoot and Ojibway descent, regularly danced at powwows while attending military-base and public schools.
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In their post-structural opus A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari characterized nomadic movement as “maintaining the possibility of springing up at any point.”
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The magic of Douglas Walker’s paintings lies in their stunning resemblance to blue-and-white Delftware, their surface effects and, of course, the force of their imagery.
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The interactions of both the camera and the viewer with architectural space are at the heart of Lynne Marsh’s video work.
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Eleven films, two shorts, a public performance and two workshops to take place at the Alberta College of Art + Design
Straight from the Sundance Film Festival, Tamra Davis' moving documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child pays homage to her friend, the legendary artist, in his own words
Two top documentaries on Swiss art will be followed by a special Q and A with Beyeler Foundation head Samuel Keller!
Whimsical, fascinating film to premiere at the Reel Artists Film Festival
World, North American and Canadian premieres to be introduced by specially invited artists, authors, curators and directors, including Susan Vogel, Joanne Tod and Barbara Fischer.
This fall, Canadian Art’s young patron group visited the home and studio of Jason McLean, where they toured the artist’s personal collection.
Canadian Art launched its much-anticipated winter issue at Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto on Wednesday, December 16, 2009.
Places as finalist in competitive, first-ever best e-newsletter category
On October 23, the Canadian Art New Contemporaries enjoyed a series of art talks and gallery tours at the Toronto International Art Fair.
This year’s festival showcases 13 films on top art world figures including world, North American and Canadian premieres.
Shows based on today’s art collectors are increasingly frequent. But it’s rarer to get a glimpse of historical patrons. Now Gabrielle Moser explores the possibilities in an interview with René Villeneuve, curator of “Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector.”
Born in Trinidad, raised in Mississauga and based in New York, Denyse Thomasos is known widely for her striking abstract paintings. Following spates in large-scale installation, Thomasos returns to smaller canvases in her latest Toronto solo show.
Reinterpreting movie posters, song lyrics and the idea of the artist documentary, Tony Romano brings a playful, experimental spirit to his latest solo show at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
Love it or hate it, the 2010 Olympics had an inescapably surreal quality in its final days. Here, in the last of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan captures the moods and madness of the games’ end and muses on the potential hangover to come.
Dan Perjovschi’s large-scale installations of critically edged drawings on gallery walls have been featured at the Venice Biennale, Tate Modern and other notable venues. With his latest project now on in Toronto, Bryne McLaughlin talks with the artist about his life and work.
