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Marc Audette at Pierre-Francois Ouelette Art Contemporain
This time of year most galleries in Montreal are closed for the summer holidays and preparing exhibitions for the “grande rentrée” in September. There are a few that have bucked this trend, and one of...
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The Sahmat Collective at the Art Gallery of Mississauga | Wavelengths at the...
There is so much going on in the Sahmat Collective exhibition at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, it’s hard to know where to begin, so let’s start at the beginning. On January 1, 2014, poet, playwright...
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NetherMind Collective & ArtSpin | Future Projections at TIFF
Late last Friday night I was driving up Sterling Road in a heavy rain to collect my kid from her gymnastics class when I noticed a surprising number of cars parked outside the nearby Nestlé factory and...
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Caroline Monnet at Gurevich Fine Art
A pair of exhibitions opened at Gurevich Fine Art last Friday, the gallery’s contribution to an ongoing, city-wide programming blitz celebrating the 30th anniversary of Mentoring Artists for Women’s...
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Jaqueline Hoang Nguyen, Brian Jungen & Duane Linklater, and Richard Ibghy...
I headed down to the 2-22 Building on St. Catherine Street last week to see what it has on offer for fall. Vox Centre de l’image contemporain has three exhibitions on view: Brian Jungen and Duane...
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Tricia Middleton at Jessica Bradley | John Kissick & Sam Mogelonsky at...
Whenever I hear the name Tricia Middleton, I think of the Oakville Galleries exhibition of hers from 2012 that I missed and the stunning installation pictures that reinforce my regret. And then I think...
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Jeanie Riddle at Evans Contemporary in Peterborough
I like alternatives to the intentionally blank white cube of your typical gallery space. And I love repurposed spaces, environments that still have non-modernist architectural baggage and can still...
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Marc Seguin at Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron & Galerie Montcalm in Ottawa
Nordic Landscapes, the exhibition of new work by Marc Séguin in Ottawa, came as a bit of shock. I knew that Séguin had built his career on a seemingly unrelenting series of dark and brutal images that...
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The Source at Rodman Hall in St. Catharines
The Source, emerging in part from Immersion Emergencies and Possible Worlds (an artist research group who met during two residencies starting in 2012) includes work by Nadine Bariteau, Raymond...
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David R. Harper at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
David Harper is an artist who takes few shortcuts. On entering his solo exhibition at Saint Mary’s Universi-ty Art Gallery, the viewer stands face-to-face with I Tried, and I Tried, and I Tried, a...
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Why Can't Minimal at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery | Pardes at the Koffler...
Curator John G. Hampton hits the nail on the head when he confesses to finding Minimalism funny. What with the preponderance of plus-size children's building blocks and the habit of relying on as-is...
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Graham Todd, Ian Johnston & Workingman's Dead at the McMaster Museum of Art
There’s a different kind of gravity at work in the McMaster Museum of Art, a defiance of the hard weight of human clay that abounds in Graham Todd: Imaginary Spaces– a posthumous exhibition in tribute...
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Faith La Rocque at De Luca Fine Art | Morley Shayuk at Paul Petro
I first stumbled on the work of Faith La Rocque and Morley Shayuk five years ago when they were sharing the two sides of Katharine Mulherin’s old secondary space. Her algae fountain and hanging plants...
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Candid at Platform Centre
Portraiture arises from exchanges – however short-lived or unequal – between artists and their subjects. Each of the four Winnipeg-born photographers featured in Candid, which opened several weeks ago...
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Terms of Engagement at Esker Foundation
Currently on view at Esker Foundation and curated by Christine Conley, Terms of Engagement is an exhibition featuring work by three previous participants of the Canadian Forces Artists Program (CFAP):...
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Nuit Blanche 2014
Toronto’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is a beast of an art thing to think about (it’s even a mouthful to say). Each year, shortly before I put my kids to bed and head out on my bike to navigate most of the...
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Jean-Benoit Pouliot at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau
Recently I was watching a preview copy of the new TV show Les Contemporains wherein the “mentor” of the week – mainstream media and collectors’ favourite – Marc Seguin declared that the Quebec art...
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Mark Lewis at Daniel Faria | Mean Time to Upgrade at InterAccess
After one hundred years of motion pictures with most of the eggs thrown into the basket of linear narrative, it’s relatively hard to watch one of Mark Lewis’ short films and not expect some sort of...
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Andrea Carlson at Plug In ICA
In Eat-All, Andrea Carlson's searing, cinematic exhibition of works on paper at Plug In ICA, content washes in and out like shipwrecked cargo or tide-borne garbage. Against an unrelenting backdrop of...
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Agathe Simon at Nocturne
One of the standout works of this past Saturday’s late night art festival Nocturne 2014, Agathe Simon’s Nova Antarctica at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative presented the tragic story of the...
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