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Top Ten Exhibitions of 2007

by Richard Rhodes
Photo caption: Fred Herzog, Lucy/Georgia, 1968, courtesy Equinox Gallery Photo caption: Fred Herzog, Lucy/Georgia, 1968, courtesy Equinox Gallery

Photo caption: Fred Herzog, Lucy/Georgia, 1968, courtesy Equinox Gallery

Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, January 25 to May 13, 2007—Vancouver photography finds an accomplished precursor.

www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_herzog.html




Photo caption: monochrom, <i>International Year of Polytheism</i> (video still of performance), February 2007

Photo caption: monochrom, International Year of Polytheism (video still of performance), February 2007

Unterspiel, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, January 18 to February 25, 2007—Contemporary art from Vienna—the new London of the international art scene.

www.utm.utoronto.ca/services/gallery/pages/past_exhibitions/2007_
unterspiel.html




Photo caption: Chris Kline, <i>Enclosure</i>, 2006–07

Photo caption: Chris Kline, Enclosure, 2006–07

Chris Kline, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, April 7 to May 12, 2007—The most meditative, abstract paintings of the year.

www.galeriereneblouin.com/History/Shows/2007/3_kline-07/GRB_kline07_1.html




Photo caption: Michael Snow, <i>Two Sides to Every Story</i>, 1974,

Photo caption: Michael Snow, Two Sides to Every Story, 1974, collection of the National Gallery of Canada

Projections, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, April 8 to June 17, 2007—Curator Barbara Fischer’s museum-scale survey of Canadian projection art.

jmbgallery.ca/ExPastProjections.html




Photo caption: Installation view (detail) of Francisco Castro’s “Variations on a Theme” at Diaz Contemporary, 2007

Photo caption: Installation view (detail) of Francisco Castro’s “Variations on a Theme” at Diaz Contemporary, 2007

Francisco Castro: Variations on a Theme, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, September 6 to October 13, 2007—Rough, lived in geometric minimalism via Mexico.

www.diazcontemporary.ca

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This article was first published online on January 4, 2008.

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