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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. ]]> 2010-06-01T14:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2010/06/01/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. ]]> 2010-06-01T13:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2010/06/01/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. ]]> 2010-06-01T12:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2010/06/01/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. ]]> 2010-06-01T11:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2010/06/01/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. ]]> 2010-06-01T10:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2010/06/01/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. ]]> 2010-06-01T09:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2010/03/01/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. ]]> 2010-03-01T16:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2010/03/01/jordan-broadworth/
Jordan Broadworth’s paintings remind me of the afterimages one experiences when glimpsing illuminated signage in the urban landscape. ]]> 2010-03-01T15:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2010/03/01/playing-homage/
In recent years, re-enactment, in various guises, has become rich terrain for artists and exhibition-makers alike. ]]> 2010-03-01T14:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2010/03/01/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. ]]> 2010-03-01T13:00:00Z