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  • Reviews11.03.2010

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    Posing Beauty in African American Culture: Colour Fields

    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.
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  • Reviews11.03.2010

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    David Merritt: Roping Viewers In

    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.
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  • Reviews25.02.2010

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    Scott Rogers: Tron, McLuhan and the Space Between

    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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  • Reviews25.02.2010

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    Monster: The Fear Inside

    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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  • Reviews11.02.2010

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    Guido van der Werve: King’s Gambits and Artist’s Games

    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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  • Reviews11.02.2010

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    The New Art Gallery of Alberta: Honour, Horror and High, High Ceilings

    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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  • Reviews04.02.2010

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    Gabriel Coutu-Dumont: Sketches of Synchronicity

    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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  • Reviews28.01.2010

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    to show, to give, to make it be there: In the Beginning, the Word

    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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  • Reviews21.01.2010

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    Miroslaw Balka: Nothing Doing

    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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  • Reviews07.01.2010

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    Kristine Moran: The Marsh, The Maze

    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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  • Reviews07.01.2010

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    Mowry Baden: Perception Machines

    “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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  • Reviews07.01.2010

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    Frances Thomas: Natural Abstraction

    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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  • Reviews23.12.2009

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    Eleven in Motion: Connecting Present and Past

    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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  • Reviews17.12.2009

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    Tacita Dean: Staging Merce Cunningham’s Still Moments

    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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  • Reviews10.12.2009

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    Scott McFarland: Seasonal Effects

    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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    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.

  • Posing Beauty in African American Culture: Colour Fields

    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: Roping Viewers In

    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.

  • On Newsstands & Online Now: Canadian Art Spring 2010

    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.

  • Adrian Norvid: Wrongo

    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.

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