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Chris Lloyd & Kim Waldron at Optica
Politics are seldom boring in Quebec, and what’s unfolding in Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau’s Papineau riding during this federal election campaign is a great example. Following in the...
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VOTE at Something to think about
Politics and art make strange bedfellows. There’s nothing art wants more than to make a meaningful and long lasting impact in the world, but there’s something way too immediate about direct and...
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Colleen Heslin at Charles H. Scott Gallery
Buoylines, Colleen Heslin’s current exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, features new paintings that are comprised of larger and fewer pieces of fabric than her earlier work in this vein....
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Jay Mosher at Untitled Art Society
After making my way through the rather uneven and disappointing fall season of local artist-run centre exhibitions, I did find a particularly bright spot: Jay Mosher’s Brasilia at Untitled Art Society....
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Isabel Rocamora at Koffler Gallery
Isabel Rocamora’s exhibition at the Koffler Gallery would be a good instructional tool for an art class looking to consider the degrees of difference between video and video installation as well as the...
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HEAT at Actual Contemporary, Winnipeg
Earlier this summer, the Manitoba Craft Council brought together six artists whose contemporary practices map the complex cross-cultural and, at times, highly personal histories of ceramic objects....
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Nuit Blanche, Toronto
Ten years ago this past weekend, the citizens of Toronto were transformed as they wandered along a path temporarily bound in artificial fog and forever flipped the script on what was possible with a...
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Abbas Akhavan at Mercer Union
I rarely cry in art galleries. Pretty well never. But I choked up in Abbas Akhavan's exhibition at Mercer Union on Saturday as I sat in the back room watching his video Ghost. The sound of it caught me...
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Genevieve Cadieux at the Musee de Joliette, Montreal
Consisting of less than dozen works, the Geneviève Cadieux retrospective at Musée de Joliette is like a visual haiku of her practice. Carefully honed and articulated by curator Vincent Bonin in...
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Kyle Alden Martens at the Corridor Gallery, Halifax
Small tendrils of pastel colors shudder in the wake of someone breezing through the Corridor Gallery at Visual Arts Nova Scotia. Kyle Alden Martens’ Studies of Intercourse and Water is an installation...
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Katie Ohe at Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary
Regional biases in Canadian art never cease to amaze me. Say what you will about the pitfalls or benefits of regionalism, it continues to surprise me that every time I move to new city I am introduced...
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Weegee at the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto
The layers of artifice at the Ryerson Image Centre’s current exhibition are so thick, you could stab them with a butcher knife. They start with the perp himself. Born in what is now the Ukraine but...
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Lisa Radon at Artspeak, Vancouver
An exhibition’s material list is its subterranean vocabulary. Some lists are a little lackluster, quoting only “mixed media,” while others are obvious simply by looking at the work. In [ ], Lisa...
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Paul P. at Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto
Of all the artists in Toronto of his generation, Paul P. would have been my last guess to eventually go multimedia. His delicate watercolours, ink drawings, and oil paintings of beautiful and perhaps...
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Andrea Roberts at aceartinc., Winnipeg
I made it to Andrea Roberts' The Yolk of Menial Light a week after it opened at aceartinc., but I can’t shake the feeling that I didn’t make it in time. In time for what I couldn’t tell you, mind. An...
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The Sobey Art Award at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
We arrive just in time and push into the Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia crowd listening to the speeches and jovial preamble leading to the moment we are all waiting for. Finely dressed representatives of...
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An Te Liu, Patrick Coutu, & Scott MacFarland at Division Gallery, Toronto
One of the challenges of being an art critic is that everyone expects you to write negative reviews, just as long as you don’t write about them. Being Canadians and all, our tendency to engage in...
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BC Almanac(h) C-B at Presentation House Gallery
Vancouver is currently hosting a perfect storm of its local art history. Jerry Pethick’s retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery and an exhibition of Gathie Falk at Equinox are both recently opened...
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Why the @#&! do you paint? at the Gladstone Hotel
I’d like to declare the death of the death of painting, just so we don’t have to have that debate every time an exhibition of emerging painters pops up. Curator Spencer Harrison introduces his take on...
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Patrick Cruz at Secret 8 Project Space
Secret 8 continues to offer some of Calgary’s most interesting little exhibitions (including the impressive premier of four films by renowned UK artist Dick Jewell last summer) and Patrick Cruz’s...
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