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Morgan Melenka at Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
Everything is at once familiar and strange in Morgan Melenka’s MFA thesis exhibition delaminate. She has reproduced architectural ornamentation and flourishes such as fountains, arches, and bollards –...
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Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal at Untitled Art Society
Fingers laced together, my hands form a basket – a catchment – through which rain might weave and collect. To offer the basin of a hand freely, its contents extended towards another, is to give a gift....
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Productive Discomfort at Xpace Cultural Centre
Productive Discomfort at Xpace (presented in partnership with Myseum of Toronto) is the culmination of five workshops that curator and artist facilitator Lauren Cullen led this past fall. She invited...
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Amalie Atkins at the Art Gallery at Evergreen
I feel nostalgic in Saskatchewan-based artist Amalie Atkins’ where the hour floats. Or it could be that I am being sentimental. Or maybe melodramatic. It’s tough to differentiate between them. Her solo...
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Life of a Craphead at Centre Clark
I heard raves about Life of a Craphead’s exhibition at Centre Clark before seeing it: “raw and funny”, “best art show in ages”, and, my favourite, “can’t stop crying and thinking everyone else can just...
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Pippin Barr at the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina
This past month Saskatchewan experienced the coldest temperatures on record since the 1930s. With each day that the mercury in the thermometer fails to rise above -30, it becomes harder to leave the...
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Nelson Henricks & Ross Bleckner at Paul Petro
If it doesn’t already exist, there is a dissertation to be written about modernism and the sleeve design for Smell the Glove. If you haven’t seen This is Spinal Tap in a while, the album the hapless...
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Sarah Sense at Urban Shaman
Sarah Sense’s colour photographs in her exhibition Cowgirls and Indians at Urban Shaman pulsate and shapeshift as your eyes move across them and you try to piece together what it is you’re looking at....
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Rosika Desnoyers at Art-Image in Gatineau
Intrigued by the prospect of an exhibition of neo-conceptual embroidery, I crossed the Ottawa River to see Rosika Desnoyers’ Partridges at Art-Image in La Maison de la culture de Gatineau. The title of...
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Jeremy Shaw at the Esker Foundation
Berlin-based Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw’s Quantification Trilogy features three bold, mysterious, and mind-boggling films. Shown in Venice, Hamburg, and now at the Esker Foundation, the series...
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Nahed Mansour at Articule
Toronto-based artist Nahed Mansour’s exhibition at Articule takes up the figure of the belly dancer in mostly American popular culture. The integrity of the show’s concept is provocatively broken down...
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Nep Sidhu at Mercer Union
I spent much of the week following the opening of Nep Sidhu’s solo exhibition Medicine for a Nightmare (they called, we responded) suffering from FOMO. As I scrolled past dozens of selfies, blurry...
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Khan Lee at Republic Gallery
Technology connects us in powerful and unpredictable ways. Much of this activity, while so central to our lives, is invisible to the eye and thus easy to ignore. Khan Lee’s analytical yet airy...
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Ekene Maduka at La Maison des Artistes Visuels Francophones
If you think of Nigerian-born painter Ekene Maduka as singer, you can hear her dashing from high pitched eccentricities to hushed lullabies to wordless chanting and back to dramatic, tuneful wailing...
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Juan Ortiz-Apuy at Owens Art Gallery in Sackville
Stepping into Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s exhibition Fountain Mist at the Owens Art Gallery feels like you’re stepping into a sleek modern laboratory where consumerism and desire are distilled to their essential...
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DaveandJenn & PA System at General Hardware Contemporary
When Lux Interior of the Cramps sang about searching for "some new kind of kick” way back in 1981, he was probably alluding to recreational drugs or some transgressive fetish, but he could have just as...
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Susan Clarahan at Jarvis Hall Gallery
Landscape and bodies thrive and collide in Erotic Nature, a series of sensual and sexy colour photographs by Susan Clarahan currently on display at Jarvis Hall Gallery as part of the Exposure...
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Antonietta Grassi at Harcourt House in Edmonton
I saw perfect prisms and multicoloured, meticulously drawn parallel lines and – admittedly – checked out. I was overcome with a feeling of emptiness. This I attributed to the number of artists doing...
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Aslan Gaisumov at the Contemporary Art Gallery
Borrowing its title from a W.G Sebald poem, Chechen artist Aslan Gaisumov’s exhibition If No One Asks, currently on display at the Contemporary Art Gallery, is a gentle contemplation of the unseen. The...
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Vincent Larouche at soon.tw
Facing the front door of the tiny DIY gallery soon.tw, Vincent Larouche’s exhibition Bouches de Cendres Actives opens with what looks like an art crime. In Hyenes a hunter takes aim across the missing...
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