Canadian Art - Slideshows

Canada in Miami: Not-So-Cold Comforts

2011-12-08T17:05:00Z

What's left to say about this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach and its dozens of concurrent fairs and events? Quite a lot, if you’re looking to know the Canadian artists, dealers and presence there. Find out more in Leah Sandals’ report.

Richard Mosse: Infrared Insights

2011-12-01T17:20:00Z

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The landscape and people of eastern Congo, photographed with infrared film, are the basis for Richard Mosse’s remarkable prints at New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. In this slideshow, David Balzer mulls the implications, which stretch from Conrad to Hendrix.

Reece Terris: Constructing Meaning

2011-11-29T21:41:00Z

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Vancouver’s Reece Terris may well be the hardest-working artist on the national scene these days. In this supplement to Robin Laurence's Winter 2012 issue feature "The Contractor," we look at some images and videos recapping Terris' practice.

Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machine Magic

2011-11-29T20:48:00Z

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Few might think of a janitor’s room with a motley cache of industrial-grade cleaners, spray bottles, metal lockers, toilet brushes and mops as an ideal site for a sculptural intervention—except, perhaps, Montreal artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier. This online supplement on Gauthier's kinetic sculpture, which accompanies Kate Addleman's feature in our Winter 2012 issue, looks at his art from breakthrough years to the present day.

Michel de Broin: Light and Space

2011-11-25T17:31:00Z

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Over the past decade, the work of Montreal artist Michel de Broin has ranged from a jerry-rigged pedal car in Toronto to a massive, recently unveiled street-lamp sculpture in New Orleans. This slideshow, a supplement to Bryne McLaughlin's feature in our Winter 2012 issue, surveys his works old and new.

Jessica Stockholder: From the CAG to Connecticut

2011-11-25T17:01:00Z

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In the Winter 2012 issue of Canadian Art, critic Daniel Baird visits with Vancouver-raised, internationally renowned American artist Jessica Stockholder. This slideshow features a variety of her works, including early installations in Vancouver and Toronto.

Donald Weber: Quniqjuk, Qunbuq, Quabaa

2011-11-17T17:00:00Z

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What is the new Inuit reality? What is the future of the Canadian North? In this slideshow drawn from our Fall 2011 issue, award-winning photographer Donald Weber addresses these questions by juxtaposing seal-oil-lamp past and iPhone-friendly present.

Willem de Kooning: Embodying the City

2011-11-10T17:04:00Z

Excavation 1950 Courtesy the Art Institute of Chicago © 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York" />
For David Balzer, the Willem de Kooning exhibition now on at New York’s Museum of Modern Art confirms that his art embodies the spirit of the city just as well as it ever did. In it, graffiti’s echoes meet architectural bravado and large-scale views.

New York Art Book Fair: Freedom of the (Small) Press

2011-10-06T16:03:00Z

Assistant editor David Balzer’s first fall report from New York, where he's stationed for the season, offers a slideshow from the New York Art Book Fair, as well as reflections on its Canadian connections and American context.

Joyce Wieland: True Patriot Love

2011-09-08T15:29:00Z

An Online Supplement to the Fall 2011 issue of Canadian Art