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  • Slideshows10.12.2009

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    John Dickson Portfolio: Dark Magic

    From ships in a bottle to cardboard cities, Toronto artist John Dickson has an uncanny knack for the alchemy of ordinary materials, a truth writer R.M. Vaughan makes clear in the winter 2009 edition of Canadian Art magazine. This special online bonus portfolio recaps a decade’s worth of Dickson’s creative chaos.
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  • Audio10.12.2009

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    More on Arthur Renwick: Riffs and Representations

    In the winter 2009 print edition of Canadian Art, writer Daniel Baird examines the portrait projects of artist Arthur Renwick. This special online supplement offers more examples of Renwick's striking photography, as well as samples of a very different form of Renwick's creative work—his blues-inspired music.
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  • Slideshows10.12.2009

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    Iris Häussler's Projects: Elusive Illusions

    In the winter 2009 edition of Canadian Art magazine, Toronto critic Gillian MacKay takes on the imaginative, enigmatic installations of German-born artist Iris Häussler. These online bonus images give further glimpses into the projects that have made Häussler a key name in Canadian artmaking.
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  • Slideshows10.12.2009

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    Artistic Olympic Picks: Vancouver Virtues

    Though the 2010 Winter Olympics don’t officially begin until this coming February, Vancouver’s cultural landscape is already transforming in anticipation of the games. Here, in a special online supplement to the Newsfront section of our winter 2009 magazine, a slideshow of nine images highlights Olympic art projects by Canadian and international artists.
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  • Slideshows10.12.2009

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    Gallery Hop Gala Album: Seen on the Scene

    Attended by patrons, curators, artists and dealers, Canadian Art’s annual fundraising gala is always a good time for a great cause. This 12-image portfolio shows some of the revellers at this year’s event, held September 24 at the KoolHaus in Toronto.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Adad Hannah: Intervening in History

    Adad Hannah’s carefully staged video tableaux of pre-existing images have become hallmarks of the Montreal-based artist’s practice over the past few years.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Kelly Richardson: Hyperreal Life

    U.K.-based artist Kelly Richardson’s surreal video landscapes inspire Toronto writer David Jager to consider the nature of reality and disbelief in our image-saturated society in the fall 2009 print edition of Canadian Art.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Corin Sworn: Radical Utopias

    Failed modern utopias and childhood radicalism drive the work of artist Corin Sworn.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Gareth Moore: Art and Life, on the Road

    Vancouver artist Gareth Moore has made a name for himself through his wry performances and complex ephemeral sculptures that blur the lines between art and life.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby: Songcraft and Pseudonyms

    Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby have become increasingly well known for wry, provocative and self-revealing video and installation works.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Valérie Blass: Object Lessons

    Montreal artist Valérie Blass has generated one of the most diverse, intelligent and engaging bodies of sculpture to emerge from Canada in recent years.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins: Savvy Self-Directors

    Smart, skeptical and self-directed, Jennifer Marman and Danield Borins take on vernacular themes in a savvy way through various media.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Jed Lind: New Romanticism Redux

    Jed Lind’s art practice channels concerns around human ingenuity, romantic idealism and diminishing environmental resources into affecting sculptures, photographs and installations. In “Navigating Time,” an essay for the fall 2009 edition of Canadian Art, artist and writer Robert Fones investigates the fusion of these ideas in Lind’s oeuvre. This special online supplement provides 10 images that elaborate Lind’s cohesive body of work.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Sobey Finalists 2009: David Altmejd

    David Altmejd definitively grabbed the attention of the international art scene with his spectacular installation The Index at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
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  • Slideshows10.09.2009

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    Sobey Finalists 2009: Shary Boyle

    Shary Boyle’s haunting, psychologically probing, dreamlike images have been rendered masterfully in paint, overhead projections and porcelain sculpture over the past number of years.
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