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  • ReviewsSummer 2010

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    David Armstrong Six

    David Armstrong Six’s anti–form fit installation The Dry Salvages took over Parisian Laundry’s idiosyncratic back gallery, which is known as the Bunker— a raw, windowless concrete box accessed via a subterranean passageway.
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  • ReviewsSummer 2010

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    Jason de Haan

    Glittering, seductive and mystical: crystals and mirrors are the loci of Jason de Haan’s remarkably focused freshman exhibition with Toronto’s Clint Roenisch.
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  • ReviewsSummer 2010

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    Krista Buecking

    “Under the paving stones the beach!” So goes the slogan from Paris in May 1968: dismantle civilization and you will find paradise. For her show at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Krista Buecking looks at the brick as a trope of cultural upheaval, in the process suggesting a way to understand the political uncertainties of our time.
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  • ReviewsSummer 2010

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    Geoffrey Farmer

    What would time’s face look like if it had one? A literal example might be an analog clock; a more symbolic one might be hoary-bearded Father Time. “The Surgeon and the Photographer,” Geoffrey Farmer’s latest exhibition at Catriona Jeffries, gives us neither.
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  • ReviewsSummer 2010

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    Scott Rogers

    Scott Rogers pays homage to Mel Bochner’s Measurement Room (1969), with his own work, Wireframe: an installation that demarcates the physical dimensions of Stride Gallery, this time as photoluminescent outlines.
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  • ReviewsSummer 2010

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    Micah Lexier

    Micah Lexier’s I AM THE COIN fills the BMO Project Room’s main wall with a grid of 20,000 custom-minted coins. It’s an impressive sight: light shimmers over the coins, the reflections shifting as you move around, and little circles of light are scattered throughout the room.
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  • ReviewsSpring 2010

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    Judy Radul

    The work of Judy Radul often troubles the process of how one comes to think of one thing as true and another false.
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  • ReviewsSpring 2010

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    Jordan Broadworth

    Jordan Broadworth’s paintings remind me of the afterimages one experiences when glimpsing illuminated signage in the urban landscape.
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  • ReviewsSpring 2010

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    Playing Homage

    In recent years, re-enactment, in various guises, has become rich terrain for artists and exhibition-makers alike.
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  • ReviewsSpring 2010

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    Francine Savard

    The 63 works on display in Francine Savard’s mid-career retrospective, curated by Lesley Johnstone, express intellectual and philosophical concepts with refined, graphic precision.
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  • ReviewsSpring 2010

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    Lois Andison

    The world that we are confronted with on a daily basis is a complex, multi-layered chaos that is continually flexing and moving.
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  • ReviewsSpring 2010

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    The Automatiste Revolution

    Françoise Sullivan succinctly summed up Quebec’s mid-20th-century revolution in the arts as follows...
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  • ReviewsSpring 2010

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    Tricia Middleton

    The title of Tricia Middleton’s installation at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls.
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  • ReviewsSpring 2010

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    Steve Higgins

    Steve Higgins is a man of the city; Ihor Holubizky, curator of this exhibition, calls him an astute “observer/flâneur.”
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  • ReviewsWinter 2009

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    2Fik

    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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  • Sol LeWitt: Primary Legacy

    In recent years, both the Dia and MASS MoCA have mounted tribute exhibitions to late American artist Sol LeWitt. This week, Mercer Union wraps up its own notable homage, which recreates a 1981 wall drawing LeWitt did for the then-fledgling space.

  • The Khyber Controversy: Three Years' Grace

    For the past number of years, there's been controversy regarding the future of Halifax’s Khyber Arts Society. Seen by many as a key venue locally and nationally, the Khyber was back in the news this month as a city report recommended a new three-year plan for its space.

  • Todd Tremeer: War Games

    Play and strife come together, DIY style, in Todd Tremeer’s Little Wars (Make Me), an interactive project that debuted this month at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In it, viewers can collaborate on a wall-sized battle mural and “bring the war home” via paper-cutout soldiers.

  • John Kissick/Gwen MacGregor: Two for the Road

    Summer is often marked by contrasts, a dynamic that the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery seems to pick up on in its current pairing of solo shows: John Kissick’s manic, multifaceted paintings and Gwen MacGregor’s calm, geoscience-toned fieldwork.

  • Heat: Marvelous Meltdowns

    MKG127 acknowledges Toronto’s above-average summer temperatures with “Heat,” an exhibition that ironically offers some cool respite while displaying works that evoke bubbling tar, existential crises and blistering guitar solos.

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