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Using lines of photo-luminescent tape in a darkened space, Scott Rogers’ installation Wireframe evoked retro-futurist imagery of the 1980s. Now, Mikhel Proulx reflects on how Rogers effectively mashed up real place and time with its representation.
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Outwardly, the group show “Monster” abounds with man-eating demons, hair-pulling ghosts, wart-covered witches and black-tongued sea creatures. But as Robin Laurence observes, the exhibition offers some inner psychological ogres to meditate on as well.
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Marcel Duchamp and John Cage spring to mind when viewing Guido van der Werve’s latest film at Prefix. As Bryne McLaughlin observes, the intertwining of life, art, chess and music in van der Werve’s work invites rich comparisons.
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Alberta’s abuzz with the opening of the redesigned Art Gallery of Alberta, including its inaugural Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller show. As Diana Sherlock reports, there’s some fear and loathing set loose amidst the museum’s new, and quite laudable, finery.
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Gabriel Coutu-Dumont filtered thousands of globetrotting photos down to a mere 275 for his current touring show. But as critic Amy Fung reports, Coutu-Dumont’s exhibition is at its best when it focuses on the artist’s photographic—rather than curatorial—skills.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, Vancouver was the site of fruitful cross-disciplinary activity—artists wrote, and poets made art. Now, Adele Weder reviews a semiotic-aesthetic homage to the era, one curated by Hard Core Logo author Michael Turner.
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In the latest installation at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, Miroslaw Balka presents an abbreviated version of the lifelong walk from light into darkness. Now, reviewer Eldon Garnet raises pointed questions about the work and its approach.
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In her first Toronto solo show since completing an MFA at Hunter College, Kristine Moran presents several bold new paintings. As critic Carol-Ann M. Ryan reports, Moran successfully captures allure, sensuality and looming danger, among other elements.
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“Mirroring,” the latest exhibition by Victoria’s Mowry Baden at Diaz Contemporary, consists of no mirrors—at least none of the typical kind. Instead, Bryne McLaughlin notes, Baden’s sculptures offer the idea of reflection as a tactile experience.
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There’s many ways of looking at paintings. But as reviewer Terrence Heath observes at Frances Thomas’ current exhibition, sometimes the best way to look is simply the longest—an approach that allows Thomas’ sense of the infinite to shine through.
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This fall, a Toronto exhibition matched contemporary film animators with members of the Painters Eleven like Walter Yarwood and William Ronald. As Ashley Johnson reports, the result was an engaging show linking yesterday and today.
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Tacita Dean’s installation in Montreal focuses on the late dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. As reviewer Laurie Watson reports, Dean’s skill lies in calling attention to aspects of art and performance that are often overlooked.
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Scott McFarland’s images offer up contradictory manifestations of nature: dark skies over sun-dappled fields, oddly splayed shadows and a few nonchalant human clones. Now, Adele Weder assesses his current Vancouver survey and its epic, photographic fictions.
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In a rare Toronto show, UK artist Ryan Gander offers a hall-of-mirrors “documentary” on art students. As Charlene Lau observes, the layers of truth and falsity in Gander’s work—which features a cameo by Frieze critic Dan Fox—are convincing, and quite clever.
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As reviewer Meredith Dault sees it, describing Diane Landry’s work as “magical” doesn’t do it justice. That’s too easy, too cute. Instead, Dault suggests, terms like “enchanted,” “eerie” and “possessed” are appropriate—in a good way, of course.
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Eleven films, two shorts, a public performance and two workshops to take place at the Alberta College of Art + Design
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.
Places as finalist in competitive, first-ever best e-newsletter category
On October 23, the Canadian Art New Contemporaries enjoyed a series of art talks and gallery tours at the Toronto International Art Fair.
This year’s festival showcases 13 films on top art world figures including world, North American and Canadian premieres.
Born in Trinidad, raised in Mississauga and based in New York, Denyse Thomasos is known widely for her striking abstract paintings. Following spates in large-scale installation, Thomasos returns to smaller canvases in her latest Toronto solo show.
Reinterpreting movie posters, song lyrics and the idea of the artist documentary, Tony Romano brings a playful, experimental spirit to his latest solo show at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
Love it or hate it, the 2010 Olympics had an inescapably surreal quality in its final days. Here, in the last of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan captures the moods and madness of the games’ end and muses on the potential hangover to come.
Dan Perjovschi’s large-scale installations of critically edged drawings on gallery walls have been featured at the Venice Biennale, Tate Modern and other notable venues. With his latest project now on in Toronto, Bryne McLaughlin talks with the artist about his life and work.
Shows based on today’s art collectors are increasingly frequent. But it’s rarer to get a glimpse of historical patrons. Now Gabrielle Moser explores the possibilities in an interview with René Villeneuve, curator of “Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector.”
