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  • See It18.03.2010

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    Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?

    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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  • See It18.03.2010

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    Marie-Claire Blais: Interstellar Overdrive

    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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  • See It11.03.2010

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    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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  • See It11.03.2010

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    Photogenic: Imaging the Abstract

    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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  • See It04.03.2010

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    Denyse Thomasos: From Superjails to Super Paintings

    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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  • See It04.03.2010

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    Tony Romano: Reimagining Pop and Art

    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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  • See It18.02.2010

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    Extra-curricular: Of Lectures and Lesson Plans

    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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  • See It18.02.2010

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    James Nizam: Little Mountain’s Residual Life

    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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  • See It18.02.2010

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    Michael McCormack and Jason Penney: Bric-a-Brac to the Future

    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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  • See It11.02.2010

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    Sandra Meigs: Eccentric Consistencies

    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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  • See It11.02.2010

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    Dzama, Martineau and Zack: A Montreal Hat Trick

    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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  • See It04.02.2010

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    Sammy Baloji: The Light Continent

    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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  • See It04.02.2010

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    Yann Pocreau: Illuminating the Local

    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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  • See It04.02.2010

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    Geoffrey Farmer: From Poor Materials to Rich Themes

    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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  • See It28.01.2010

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    Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Seeing in Time

    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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    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.

  • Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?

    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.

  • Marie-Claire Blais: Interstellar Overdrive

    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: The High-Art Lowdown

    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.

  • FIFA 2010: The Flicks to Pick

    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.

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