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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
Hear a bestselling author lecture about the Group of Seven, and his related book, on March 25
Walker Art Center curator to visit Toronto from May 26 to 28
Panel, book launch, gallery tours and reception to take place Saturday, May 29
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.
The spring issue of Canadian Art hits newsstands and computer screens across the country this week, offering many must-read articles. Web extras on cover artist Althea Thauberger and the 2010 Governor General’s Awards also excite.
In his latest solo show, Adrian Norvid mashes up art-world fundraiser antics with exquisite-corpse techniques. Add in DIY flair and painstaking attention to detail, and you’ve got another wild voyage into Norvid’s wacky parallel universe.
Libraries of books have been written on abstraction in painting. But it’s abstraction in photography that gets the focus with “Photogenic,” a Vancouver show that features 1920s work by László Moholy-Nagy alongside contemporary artists’ prints.
Hamilton is the only Canadian stop for a new exhibition, curated by NYU photo chair Deborah Willis, that interrogates notions of beauty and blackness. As reviewer Sally Frater observes, Willis’ approach provides antidotes to some longstanding art conundrums.
David Merritt is having a quartet of related exhibitions in southern Ontario this year. In his review of the project’s first iteration, “shim,” Sky Glabush marvels at Merritt’s ability to meander between objective clarity and deferred, slippery potential.
