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Craig Fahner & Steve Gurysh at 8-11
I’m not a sports guy, so the overlap between athletics and art is often lost on me, but an afternoon spent watching gymnastics competitions at the Pan Am Games was enough to get me thinking about the...
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Geoffrey Pugen at MKG127, Toronto
The future ain’t what it used to be. That’s what occurred to me after I watched this short doc about proto-internet art made on the Betamax of image transmission protocols in Toronto back in the...
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Still Life: Looking at the Overlooked at TrepanierBaer, Calgary
August is a slow time for exhibitions in Calgary and everywhere else. Most ARCs and galleries are wrapping up their season’s programming at the end of this month. One notable exception is...
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The Oasis at Field Contemporary, Vancouver
Currently installed at Field Contemporary is The Oasis, a three-hole mini golf course designed by local artists Vanessa Brown, Steve Hubert, and Allison Tweedie, with a Pro Shop stocked by Mark DeLong....
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David Altmejd at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
When I first came across David Altmejd’s work in the mid-oughts, it seemed to emerge from, or fit into, a certain romantic zeitgeist for the fantastical, the fragile, the transformative, and the...
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Repair Centre at the Peter MacKendrick Community Gallery, Toronto
Blink and you’ll miss it. And you’ll be sorry because sometimes the smallest gestures can resonate long after they’ve disappeared. Excellent art does this whenever it can. You recognize it when the...
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Marlon Griffith at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Most artists have it pretty easy. They stick to the safe confines of the studio, wrestling only with personal demons and manageable media before delivering their work into a carefully controlled...
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Nicolas Sassoon at al at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg
If nothing else, Plug In ICA deserves credit for its take on low-key summer programming. Over ten weeks, while the main gallery is given over to the annual Summer Institute and a lively exhibition by...
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Flawless at Younger Than Beyonce, Toronto
In his coming-of-age book, The Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom explains the fraught relationship of young poets to their predecessors. The tyros want to be original, but are in danger of simply...
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Rodin, Adad Hannah, & Denys Arcand at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art
As summer dwindles to a close you pretty much have to go to a museum if you want to see a contemporary art exhibition in Montreal. With very few exceptions, everything else is closed. So this week I...
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Wallpapers & Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery
The fourth floor of the Vancouver Art Gallery is home to an on-going series of exhibitions that puts the work of Emily Carr in “dialogue” with artists working in British Columbia. Currently on display...
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Nate McLeod & Cassandra Paul at Pith Gallery, Calgary
Pith Gallery is a relatively unusual space in Calgary, but it inhabits the artist-studios-upstairs/art-gallery-downstairs model seen in many other Canadian cities (the burgeoning 221a empire in...
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Talwst at Convenience Gallery, Toronto
This past weekend the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art ended both the summer and their run on Queen West with an exhibition that went big with a life-sized beach shack slash club house replacing the...
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Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik at Galerie Ephemere, Montreal
Some cities really go for pop-up art spaces, but in Montreal they don’t happen nearly enough. I’m not sure if it’s a lack of ambition or that most people are satisfied by the dozens of artist-run...
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Out of Line at Oakville Galleries
As the son of a draftsman, my formative association with drawing was as a means to represent the world and its potential. Anything to be built first had to be worked out on paper. I’ve inherited my...
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Lois Andison at Olga Korper, Toronto
Is it still too early in the year to call something the best of 2015? Nudging Marcel by Lois Andison sits right in the centre of her solo exhibition at Olga Korper. It was made in 2014 and appeared in...
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Aligned with the curve of night at Model Projects, Vancouver
The drawings and paintings in Aligned with the curve of night, organized by artists Tiziana La Melia and Julian Hou for Model Projects, unabashedly tease at multiple narrative possibilities, but...
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Collin Zipp at Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg
You wouldn’t download a Van Gogh. Art theft: it’s a crime. In certain key ways, Collin Zipp’s Recent Acquisitions, which opened last Friday at Martha Street Studio, embodies the spirit of an Internet...
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Paulette Phillips & Thierry Delva at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
It is fitting when a university-based gallery marries art and science together. Curator Peter Dykhuis has done just that with the exhibition of recent works by Thierry Delva and Paulette Phillips at...
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Wavelengths at the Toronto International Film Festival
I spent a week this past July hanging out in Durham, Ontario with the experimental filmmakers attending senior Canadian artist Phil Hoffmann’s legendary Film Farm. These avant-gardists are often called...
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