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If the world tends towards decay, is that a good thing or a bad thing? On the one hand, it could be gloomy, on the other, transformative. Now, three Vancouver-connected artists are riffing on these extremes in a group show at Or Gallery.
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Some artists are popular stars, while others are artists’ artists on the quieter margins. The late Jerry Pethick falls into the latter category, and is now getting his due with a career-spanning exhibition of works at the SFU Gallery in Burnaby
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Canadian painter Attila Richard Lukacs has seen some major fluctuations over his career, including a crystal meth addiction. But he rightfully retains many admirers—among them philanthropist Salah Bachir, whose collection of Lukacs works is currently on view in Hamilton.
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Last Wednesday, the Canadian art community suffered the sudden loss of 30-year-old artist Mathieu Lefevre, who had recently moved from Montreal to New York. Here, critic Tess Edmonson remembers the promising and charismatic young talent.
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Leave it to Douglas Coupland to bring eccentric, colourful humour to a grey, concrete-laden urban view. For his latest public art installation in Oshawa, Coupland transforms a photo of abstract-art collective Painters Eleven into a series of graph-like circles and hues.
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The Art Gallery of Ontario has hit some populist high notes in its recent programming, and “Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde” is no exception. Chagall’s soft, dreamy, vibrant nostalgia goes well beyond the narrower limits of art history.
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Conceptual art can get a bad rap for being a closed club. But New York City–based artist Luis Camnitzer has made a career of testing how conceptual art can engage rather than exclude. A current survey at the Belkin, with a related installation at the Koerner Library, offers examples of this practice.
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Don’t miss Michael Fried lecturing this weekend at the Art Gallery of Alberta. Fried carries the mantle for American art criticism once borne by Clement Greenberg, and over his 50-year career, he’s shed light on Édouard Manet, Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky and many other important artists.
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In his current Oshawa exhibition “Other Worlds,” Douglas Walker steps into new territory while drawing on the deep, mythical past. He also goes big, integrating his evocative blue paintings with the architecture of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.
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As the Arab Spring warmed in the Middle East this year, Ed Ou, a 24-year-old Canadian photojournalist, was in Tahrir Square documenting its revolutionary moments. With the resulting images now showing in Toronto, Ou offers an incisive look into a people realizing their power.
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Annie Pootoogook took the Canadian art world by storm when she arrived on the scene with her drawings of daily life in Cape Dorset. Her current solo show at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre reminds us why Pootoogook’s art is so powerful.
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Though biennials and social media have shrunk distances between artists, curators and viewers, ideas of distance have also gained traction in contemporary art. Now, the Vancouver Art Gallery reflects on the theme through three Pacific Rim artists.
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A year after graduating with her OCADU BFA, Winnie Truong’s bolstered her CV with exhibitions in New York and awards in Toronto. Now, a solo show at Erin Stump Projects, full of Truong’s striking, hirsute subjects, continues to live up to the promise.
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American photographer Larry Clark is widely known for his documentation of youth on the verge. Now, North Vancouver's Presentation House Gallery focuses on the body of work that made his name: Tulsa, a rigorous look at 1960s teen experiments in drugs, sex and violence.
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Modern industrial design in Canada is a subject gaining increasing interest, and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s current exhibition “The Modern Eye: Craft and Design in Canada 1940–1980” attempts to catalogue its mid-century climax.
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The winner will be published in our magazine and receive a $3,000 award
Toronto's most anticipated art party is slated for Thursday, September 20
Timothy Taylor's feature on Zacharias Kunuk and Douglas Weber's portfolio on Kunuk's hometown recognized
Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities
Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes
Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May
New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1
Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival
Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6
Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more
Jon Rafman’s work enjoys a deservedly high profile at this year’s Contact Festival. As Saelan Twerdy observes in this review, Rafman’s stunning, and often funny, Google Street View scenes demonstrate how the Internet is making everything public, from information to intimacy.
The auction record for contemporary Canadian art was broken earlier this month in New York with Christie’s $3.6 million sale of a Jeff Wall photograph. This week, Canada’s top houses head into their spring sales hoping to break more records.
“Based on a True Story” in Oakville boasts the largest North American survey to date of Keren Cytter, the Tel Aviv–born artist known as one of today’s most intriguing video practitioners. Mariam Nader reviews, finding greatest hits and unexpected delights.
The history of indigenous people performing for colonial audiences inspires "Sovereign Acts,” a current Toronto group show. As Max Mosher writes, the show—featuring Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson and others—is both campy and contemplative.
Dil Hildebrand is one brave painter. In his new show “Back to the Drawing Board (Reprise),” he stares down the old adage that no one wants to look at a green painting, let alone buy one. There's not just one green painting here—there's a room of them.
