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This week, finalists for the 2010 Sobey Art Award were announced: Daniel Barrow, Patrick Bernatchez, Brendan Fernandes, Brendan Lee Satish Tang and Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby. Here, our portfolios for each artist in this tough-to-call race.
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Daniel Barrow, the finalist for the 2010 Sobey Art Award representing Prairies and the North, has gained increasing notice for low-tech works that combine comic-book aesthetics with richly poetic fantasy. Take a look at this portfolio to find out more.
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Patrick Bernatchez is the Quebec-region finalist for the 2010 Sobey Art Award. Known for dark, eerie works that haunt overlooked spaces in one of Canada’s biggest cities, Bernatchez is one to watch. Find out more with our portfolio of his key works.
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The 2010 Sobey Art Award finalist for the Ontario region, Brendan Fernandes, has won well-founded attention for installations, videos and sculptures that tease apart migration and post-colonialism. See examples of his work in this award-finalist album.
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Brendan Lee Satish Tang is the 2010 Sobey Award finalist for the region of West Coast and the Yukon. Tang is known for unique ceramic sculptures that evoke both manga comics and Ming dynasty vases. Find out more in this award-finalist portfolio.
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Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby work conceptual magic on everything from low-tech animation to taxidermied-animal sculptures. Their deftness has won them a place as Sobey Art Award finalists for 2010; find out more with this portfolio.
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There is a certain amount of dark magic in the work of Montreal- and Brooklyn-based artist Marc Séguin—aspects of the criminal, the occult and even the insane. This portfolio, a supplement to James D. Campbell's feature in our summer 2010 magazine, delves further into Séguin’s ominous vision of humanity.
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In our summer 2010 magazine cover story, contributor Adele Weder unpacks the abstract imagery of Vancouver painter Elizabeth McIntosh. This portfolio of new paintings and installation views from McIntosh's recent solo exhibition expands on her distinctive approach to the canvas.
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Montreal’s reputation as a centre for abstract painting gets an update this summer with the 16-gallery exhibition series “Extreme Painting.” This detailed online show guide and preview portfolio supplements our summer magazine feature on this compelling event.
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Calgary photographer Daniel Smith takes portraits of artists to the next level with his interactive 360° panoramic studio views. In his portraits of painter Mark Mullin, who is featured in the summer 2010 issue of our magazine, one can zoom in on Mullin's paint tubes, bulletin boards and more. The upshot? Popular image technology that gives us a new view of fine art.
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Althea Thauberger’s striking collaborations with Canada’s women soldiers in Afghanistan made the cover of the spring 2010 edition of Canadian Art. Here, we offer more images from Thauberger’s compelling reworkings of our war-artist tradition.
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In the spring 2010 edition of Canadian Art, Calgary painter Chris Cran profiles his longtime Cowtown colleague John Will, a figure who ranges from painterly sage to art-world wise guy. This special online portfolio shows the wide swath of Will’s work.
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Though the number of art prizes in Canada is growing, the Governor General’s Awards remain the ultimate acknowledgement of a Canadian artist’s career. Here, we offer a quick look at the work of all eight of this year’s honourees.
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In his spring 2010 article for Canadian Art magazine, Paris- and London-based curator Vincent Honoré meditated on patterns of artmaking he recently observed in Toronto. This bonus portfolio shows work from several artists noted in Honoré’s essay.
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Vancouver’s Ian Wallace has been going strong for more than four decades, and, as Tate Modern curator Jessica Morgan notes in a spring 2010 article for Canadian Art, his influence is still growing. This image album recaps Wallace’s conceptual credentials.
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Join us on Thursday, September 23, and Saturday, September 25, for exciting events that celebrate the visual arts.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group launches its second year with a program of extraordinary behind-the-scenes art events.
Congratulations go to winner Pandora Syperek and runners-up Deirdre McAdams and Vency Yun.
The Canadian Art Foundation, with RBC, is pleased to announce the 15 semifinalists in the 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
In this video, recorded on Saturday, May 29, 2010, as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver, Kitty Scott, director of visual arts at the Banff Centre, and Douglas Fogle, chief curator of the Hammer Museum, joined artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Althea Thauberger to offer their thoughts on the artist’s role in the world.
Canadian Art is currently seeking an Online Production Manager to join its team. Applications are due September 10, 2010.
Canadian Art magazine is currently seeking an editorial professional to join its team. Applications are due September 15, 2010.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group had a fun make-your-own dining experience with one of Toronto’s hottest young artists
Learn about the influences that shaped the PS1 curator’s thinking as he prepared for his exhibition “The Talent Show”
Join us September 23 for a gala benefit and September 25 for a free day of talks at galleries citywide
In recent years, both the Dia and MASS MoCA have mounted tribute exhibitions to late American artist Sol LeWitt. This week, Mercer Union wraps up its own notable homage, which recreates a 1981 wall drawing LeWitt did for the then-fledgling space.
For the past number of years, there's been controversy regarding the future of Halifax’s Khyber Arts Society. Seen by many as a key venue locally and nationally, the Khyber was back in the news this month as a city report recommended a new three-year plan for its space.
Play and strife come together, DIY style, in Todd Tremeer’s Little Wars (Make Me), an interactive project that debuted this month at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In it, viewers can collaborate on a wall-sized battle mural and “bring the war home” via paper-cutout soldiers.
Summer is often marked by contrasts, a dynamic that the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery seems to pick up on in its current pairing of solo shows: John Kissick’s manic, multifaceted paintings and Gwen MacGregor’s calm, geoscience-toned fieldwork.
MKG127 acknowledges Toronto’s above-average summer temperatures with “Heat,” an exhibition that ironically offers some cool respite while displaying works that evoke bubbling tar, existential crises and blistering guitar solos.
