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Sarah Cale at Jessica Bradley | Silke Otto-Knapp at the Art Gallery of Ontario
It wasn’t until I was four paintings into her solo exhibition at Jessica Bradley Gallery that I started to get Sarah Cale. And since I’m the type of critic who eschews textual support on the first...
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Sera Senakovicz at Parentheses Gallery
Sera Senakovicz’s exhibition You Can’t Go Home Again presents a body of work about the people who were displaced by the massive restructuring of downtown Halifax in the 1960s. Demolition for a planned...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Art Spiegelman, and Suzy Lake at the AGO, Toronto
The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl has said on more than one occasion that he treats all art, no matter what its vintage, as contemporary. It’s an effective strategy to distinguish critical...
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Peter Tittenberger at Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg
Closing on Saturday at the University of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1C03, Him and Me is Peter Tittenberger’s first solo exhibition in almost thirty years. While the work is firmly rooted in place (Winnipeg’s...
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Jennifer Murphy at Clint Roenisch | Valerie Blass at Daniel Faria
The enduring appeal of surrealism could perhaps be attributed to the universal experience of dreams (except for a friend from university who claimed to only ever experience shifting fields of colour...
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Dorothy Caldwell at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax
The colour of Dorothy Caldwell’s Silent Ice | Deep Patience, currently on display at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery (and co-presented by the Art Gallery of Peterborough and the confusingly named...
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Ho Tam at Paul Petro, Toronto
In the reading list to her recent “self-help guide for artists”, Carol Bove included fifteen-year-old art magazines because they are the best place to see artworks in their “least flattering light.” A...
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Wayward at the Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
Presented in conjunction with Vancouver’s Capture Photography Festival, the group exhibition Wayward was curated for Winsor Gallery by Kimberly Phillips of Access Gallery. The exhibition title suggests...
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Raymonde April at Centre Clark, Montreal
Raymonde April’s Near You No Cold, now on display at Centre Clark, resulted from a residency in Mumbai. It explores the artist’s commute from her living space to her working space, and the details of...
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John Marriott at MKG127, Toronto
While there are still some arch-Modernists and aesthetic purists out there who expect the art experience to be an unmediated interaction between viewer and work, most gallery-going proles are open to...
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Cut-Up at Platform, Winnipeg
In a corner of PLATFORM set up to look like somebody’s shitty apartment, Ming Hon ate some donuts and ground other donuts into the floorboards last Friday night. She played records and danced...
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Samuel Roy-Bois & Roula Partheniou at Oakville Galleries
Unless they have deep pockets like Damien Hirst or Larry Gagosian, the denizens of the art world learn to work within and make the most of their limitations. While these limits are often financial,...
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Katie Belcher & Andrew Maize at Hermes, Halifax
En Faisant is part of an on-going body of work in which Katie Belcher draws on her experience plucking feathers from pheasants in rural France. In a dance between remembering and creating, she uses the...
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Jason Van Horne at Katharine Mulherin/No Foundation, Toronto
I’ve been meaning to ask the architect who lives across the street from me whether he designs his buildings with an eye to what they’ll look like as ruins. Is this something they teach in architecture...
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Jon Knowles at Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal
There are a few nice shows on offer at the Belgo building at the moment including Séripop at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, the film reel The Short Form at SBC curated from the LUX archive, and Jon...
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Gabi Dao at Spare Room, Vancouver
Many of the current exhibitions in our local art institutions are still marginally related to “lens-based art” as the citywide embrace of the Capture Photography Festival presses on, so happening upon...
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Part Pictures & Past Pictures at MOCCA, Toronto
The usual trajectory for any visit to the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is to enter through their main gallery doors and circle in a counter-clockwise fashion through the headlining exhibition in...
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The Unfinished Conversation at The Power Plant, Toronto
JJ Charlesworth’s on-target piece about the recently opened Venice Biennale appeared in my Facebook feed just in time to help me articulate at least one of my responses to the long (five video...
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Nicole Brunel at Secret Eight Project Space, Calgary
An unidentified writer made the claim a few years ago that “nobody does anything interesting until they are well into their thirties.” If you are looking for evidence to the contrary, you might want to...
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Emily Hermant at aceartinc., Winnipeg
Its current run at Aceartinc. marks at least the fifth public presentation of Emily Hermant’s Spatial Drawings. The work has shown up previously in Windsor, Wilmington, a Chicago suburb, and Montreal,...
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