Canadian Art -- Walter Phillips Gallery

Walter Phillips Gallery

The Banff Centre, 107 Tunnel Mountain Road, Banff, Alberta, Canada
(403) 762-6281
www.banffcentre.ca/WPG
Wednesday to Sunday, 12:30 pm to 5 pm; Thursdays 12:30 p.m. to 9 pm

Kill the Workers!
Janice Kerbel’s recent work Kill the Workers! continues the London-based artist’s engagement with codified language and the elements of theatrical composition. A rigged system of theatrical lights is used to portray the ambitions of a lone spotlight attempting to achieve a state of “open white.” Dramaturgy and narrative progression are alluded to through changes in beam intensity, colour, pattern and direction. With these cues, the lights become both the characters and mechanics of the composition, sharing the roles of staging and performing.
Jan 21, 2012 Apr 08, 2012

Spring 2012

FOUNDATION NEWS

There’s just two weeks left to apply for the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize!
The winner will be published in our magazine and receive a $3,000 award
Buy tickets now for the Gallery Hop Gala and Auction!
Toronto's most anticipated art party is slated for Thursday, September 20
Canadian Art Receives Two National Magazine Award Nominations
Timothy Taylor's feature on Zacharias Kunuk and Douglas Weber's portfolio on Kunuk's hometown recognized
The Gallery Hop Vancouver program is now online!
Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities
Just one month left to apply for the RBC Canadian Painting Competition!
Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes
Canadian Art Foundation School Hop pleased to partner with the Images Festival and Contact Photography Festival
Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May
The Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize is now open for submissions!
New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1
Thanks for a terrific RAFF Toronto and RAFF Calgary!
Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival
Last chance to apply for the Canadian Art Foundation Editorial Residency!
Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6
Join us for Gallery Hop Vancouver, all free and all day on April 28!
Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more

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ONLINE

Jon Rafman: Mapping Google
Jon Rafman’s work enjoys a deservedly high profile at this year’s Contact Festival. As Saelan Twerdy observes in this review, Rafman’s stunning, and often funny, Google Street View scenes demonstrate how the Internet is making everything public, from information to intimacy.
Spring Auctions: Going Once, Going Twice…
The auction record for contemporary Canadian art was broken earlier this month in New York with Christie’s $3.6 million sale of a Jeff Wall photograph. This week, Canada’s top houses head into their spring sales hoping to break more records.
Keren Cytter: Video Virtuoso
“Based on a True Story” in Oakville boasts the largest North American survey to date of Keren Cytter, the Tel Aviv–born artist known as one of today’s most intriguing video practitioners. Mariam Nader reviews, finding greatest hits and unexpected delights.
Sovereign Acts: Painful Histories, Terrific Performances
The history of indigenous people performing for colonial audiences inspires "Sovereign Acts,” a current Toronto group show. As Max Mosher writes, the show—featuring Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson and others—is both campy and contemplative.
Dil Hildebrand: In the Green Room
Dil Hildebrand is one brave painter. In his new show “Back to the Drawing Board (Reprise),” he stares down the old adage that no one wants to look at a green painting, let alone buy one. There's not just one green painting here—there's a room of them.

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