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In her first solo show at a major North American institution, the Nairobi-born, New York–based artist Wangechi Mutu presents arresting videos and visceral, large-scale collage works. Here, Gabrielle Moser notes the impressive tensions in Mutu’s art.
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Light and luminosity have long been top concerns for Montreal artist Marie-Claire Blais. But as Bryne McLaughlin notes, Blais’ latest show of works—created using an auto-industry spray gun—reaches towards a sense of the cosmic as well.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Increasingly, it seems that “pedagogy” is the term foremost in the art world’s critical mind—the ur-discourse of late, if you will. Now, a two-part symposium in Toronto aims to delve into the heart of related discussions.
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Artist James Nizam is known for eerie investigations of abandoned, soon-to-be-destroyed homes. In “Memorandoms,” he applies this strategy to Vancouver’s Little Mountain housing project, which was recently demolished to make way for condos.
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A new St. John’s show pairs two east-coast artists, Michael McCormack and Jason Penney. Both divine future visions from reclaimed materials and locales, creating scenarios that are alternately tongue-in-cheek and apocalyptic.
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For more than 25 years, Sandra Meigs has won accolades for her unusual—and often quite canny—artmaking practice. Now her interests in appearances and illusions get a different spin in a new exhibition of work at Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto.
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Montrealers are in for a treat this winter with the Musée d’art contemporain kicking off another promising triple-header. Topping the marquee is a much-anticipated exhibition by Winnipeg wunderkind Marcel Dzama.
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Nearly 1 billion people live in Africa, yet we get relatively few reports from it. Now, Congolese artist Sammy Baloji creates a compelling portrait of time and place there in “Vues de Likasi,” an installation at the Contact Festival’s new gallery in Toronto.
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In the past, Montreal photographer Yann Pocreau has focused on the body’s interaction with architectural forms. Now, in a show of newer work, Pocreau focuses on something less concrete—the interaction of mobile bodies with local light.
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Vancouverite Geoffrey Farmer has earned an international name for himself by turning Arte Povera materials into rich meditations on history, psychology and other big themes. Now fans can get a look at his new explorations in a show at Catriona Jeffries.
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An exhibition honouring Eija-Liisa Ahtila, the Finnish artist whose experimental installations push boundaries in both art and film, opens in Montreal this week. Curator John Zeppetelli, also a filmmaker, has pulled together some of Ahtila’s key works.
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Eleven films, two shorts, a public performance and two workshops to take place at the Alberta College of Art + Design
Hear a bestselling author lecture about the Group of Seven, and his related book, on March 25
On February 24, art-world glitterati came out to Koerner Hall in Toronto for the highly anticipated Canadian premiere of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Sold-out screenings were a hallmark of RAFF 2010.
Walker Art Center curator to visit Toronto from May 26 to 28
Panel, book launch, gallery tours and reception to take place Saturday, May 29
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.
Co-curated by acclaimed artist Robert Gober, “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” received high praise during an LA stop last fall. Now, with the show on at Buffalo’s Burchfield Penney Art Center, critic Ashley Johnson talks with Gober about regionalism, realism and reinvention.
In her first solo show at a major North American institution, the Nairobi-born, New York–based artist Wangechi Mutu presents arresting videos and visceral, large-scale collage works. Here, Gabrielle Moser notes the impressive tensions in Mutu’s art.
Light and luminosity have long been top concerns for Montreal artist Marie-Claire Blais. But as Bryne McLaughlin notes, Blais’ latest show of works—created using an auto-industry spray gun—reaches towards a sense of the cosmic as well.
Myfanwy MacLeod is known for forays into modernism’s iconic moments as well as for delving into the vernacular. Here, National Gallery curator Josée Drouin-Brisebois reviews MacLeod’s latest show with an eye to her “high” and “low” influences.
This week, the 28th edition of the Festival International du Film sur l’Art gets underway in Montreal with screenings of 230 films from 23 countries. Here’s Canadian Art’s top FIFA picks for contemporary-art fans.
