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Doug Ischar at Gallery 44
I wasn't planning on writing another report on a Contact Photography Festival exhibition but it's like you can't escape them – they're everywhere! And so, as I stumbled around the halls of 401...
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Michele Prevost at La Maison des artistes visuels francophones
The city is a mélange of signs: advertisements, posters, street signs, store signage, words that direct, words that sell, words that proclaim. Artist Michèle Provost has created a poetic and personal...
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Annie Martin at Pith
Juxtaposing castoffs, detritus, twigs, and tchotchkes into a resolved installation replete with multi-channel audio is no easy feat. Lots of practitioners deploy what some consider garbage, attempting...
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8 Days No Contact at Narwhal Projects
The past couple days feels like Toronto has been cast in a Canadian version of The Wire (though David Simon would probably have rejected the whole "get-out-of-the-game crowdsourced extortion video" as...
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Patrick Coutu at Rene Blouin
The system or the systematic provides the foil for Patrick Coutu's current solo exhibition at Réne Blouin, which brings together a selection of the artist's most recent sculptural works, all produced...
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Alex Da Corte at Artspeak
When you think of "re-purposed" art objects, ideas of up-cycling and a craft-based approach spring to mind; however, Philadelphia-based Alex Da Corte re-purposes the star value of objects in his solo...
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Aleksandra Domanovic at Tanya Leighton Gallery
Aleksandra Domanovic's The Future Was at Her Fingertips at Tanya Leighton Gallery uses the Belgrade Hand, a bionic hand featuring sensate fingertips invented in the artist's native Serbia in 1964, as...
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Nell Tenhaaf at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
C, G, T, A. Four letters comprise the genetic alphabet, denoting combinations of four nucleotides into three-letter codons myriad of which comprise the genetic script that produces myriad us and...
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Mis-fits at Parentheses
Most artists have at least one unusual work that doesn't quite fit into their oeuvre. (((Parentheses))) Gallery & Art Projects new exhibition Mis-fits invites us to celebrate those divergent...
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2013 Venice Biennale (Part 1)
The popular response to the 55th Venice Biennale after its opening week has been positive all around. Curator Massimiliano Gioni's expansive group exhibition Il Palazzo Eniclopedico (The Encyclopedic...
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Sakahan at the National Gallery of Canada
Sakahà n, currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada is comprised of works by over seventy-five international indigenous artists. It is the largest exhibition of its kind mounted anywhere,...
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David R. Harper at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
A large print of Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon prefaces Entre le chien et le loup, David R. Harper's current solo exhibition at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. David's central rearing horse is...
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2013 Venice Biennale (Part 2)
As we head back to North American along with the steady stream of reports and reviews from the on-the-whole well-liked 2013 Venice Biennale, here are five more reviews of some celebrated pavilions that...
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Goodwater at G Gallery
Perhaps I was showing my age, but at a recent gathering of recent MFA graduates (my wife was one of them) I wondered aloud if and where the next generation of artists (the young twenty-somethings still...
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Ben Schumacher & Carlos Reyes at Tomorrow | After the Royal Art Lodge at...
Paddy Johnson over at Art Fag City (now ArtFCity) wasn't kidding when she retweeted her agreement with fellow New York critic Karen Archey that the current exhibition pictured on the Tomorrow Gallery...
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Identification Papers at Critical Mass
Port Hope is a pretty little town that has a tenacious and ongoing perception problem, what with its longstanding connections to the nuclear industry. But it's also a lovely place with a downtown...
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Motion Activated at St. Mary's University Art Gallery
Veronique MacKenzie moves through a series of fluid gestures. She is engrossed in the moment, oblivious to the gaze of spectators in the Saint Mary's University Art Gallery. With each pose, the...
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Jackie Traverse at Neechi Commons
According to Jackie Traverse, "ever sick" is slang that aboriginal people use when teasing each other, and the expression can be insulting or complimentary. This double meaning is visible in the...
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Louise Bourgeois & David Armstrong Six at MOCCA | Beth Stuart at Erin...
The challenge each week in writing these reviews is to say something non-obvious or otherwise original about the things that I see. However, when the work is uninspired, I'm uninspired. Then again,...
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Stephen Mueller at Artcite in Windsor
Ways of Living, Stephen Mueller's current exhibition and durational performance at Windsor's Artcite, is roughly in the middle of its two-month run. On the left side of the gallery, the artist...
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