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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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Jordan Broadworth’s paintings remind me of the afterimages one experiences when glimpsing illuminated signage in the urban landscape.
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In recent years, re-enactment, in various guises, has become rich terrain for artists and exhibition-makers alike.
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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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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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Françoise Sullivan succinctly summed up Quebec’s mid-20th-century revolution in the arts as follows...
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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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Steve Higgins is a man of the city; Ihor Holubizky, curator of this exhibition, calls him an astute “observer/flâneur.”
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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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Join us on Thursday, September 23, and Saturday, September 25, for exciting events that celebrate the visual arts.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group launches its second year with a program of extraordinary behind-the-scenes art events.
Congratulations go to winner Pandora Syperek and runners-up Deirdre McAdams and Vency Yun.
The Canadian Art Foundation, with RBC, is pleased to announce the 15 semifinalists in the 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
In this video, recorded on Saturday, May 29, 2010, as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver, Kitty Scott, director of visual arts at the Banff Centre, and Douglas Fogle, chief curator of the Hammer Museum, joined artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Althea Thauberger to offer their thoughts on the artist’s role in the world.
Canadian Art is currently seeking an Online Production Manager to join its team. Applications are due September 10, 2010.
Canadian Art magazine is currently seeking an editorial professional to join its team. Applications are due September 15, 2010.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group had a fun make-your-own dining experience with one of Toronto’s hottest young artists
Learn about the influences that shaped the PS1 curator’s thinking as he prepared for his exhibition “The Talent Show”
Join us September 23 for a gala benefit and September 25 for a free day of talks at galleries citywide
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
