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Ashley Gillanders at Gallery 1C03
Staggering into Gallery 1C03 out of the winter’s first real blast of “dangerous cold,” Methods of Preservation certainly feels like a refuge, but it’s an ambivalent oasis, however inviting. In her...
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Barbara Balfour at Open Studio
Shortly after I started working in the art world, I came to the realization that what collectors get out of purchasing art isn’t simply ownership of the work but also access to the artist. For some...
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Hank Bull at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
Hank Bull: Connexion, a survey of a life lived globally, sharing artistic experiences, is laid out in bright objects in the SMU Art Gallery. Sounds compete for attention, posters and framed images...
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Showroom at The Art Museum
The year has started off with a bang for Toronto’s art scene with a new curator announced at The Power Plant, a new director hired at the AGO, potential regime change at MoCCA (soon to be MoCA?), and a...
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Diane Landry at Barbara Edwards Contemporary
I am always interested when time-based artists have exhibitions at commercial galleries. Not that I find the idea of monetizing this type of art challenging (it has been done successfully for ages),...
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Spring Hurlbut & Wendy Snyder MacNeil at the Ryerson Image Centre
It's become somewhat of a cliché to refer to photography exhibitions as meditations on mortality, but after a month of so many prominent people dying it's difficult to wander the galleries of the...
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Mike Kelley & Ryan Trecartin at Presentation House Gallery
My House at Presentation House Gallery brings together two major American artists – Mike Kelley and Ryan Trecartin– in a daring attempt to “trace a lineage” in American video art. However, it’s...
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Andrea Carlson at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the feminist artist-run centre La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, and kicking off the programming for 2016 is the exhibition Masthead by Andrea Carlson. The...
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Howard Podeswa at Koffler Gallery
I had to choose between two painting exhibitions this week: one was all abstraction, the other was not. Given my predilection these days to think and write about art as a means to thinking and writing...
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Erica Mendritzki at Actual Gallery & La Maison des artistes
Erica Mendritzki has two shows up in Winnipeg right now (one closing Saturday), and I’m seeing doubles everywhere for this and other reasons. A consistent format – intimate in scale, portrait-oriented...
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Matt Donovan at Olga Korper
When I reviewed Matt Donovan's last exhibition at Olga Korper, I proclaimed his wall-hung Op Art sculptures a model of formalism despite his medium being Lego blocks. However, he’s thrown that theory...
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Roula Partheniou at Contemporary Calgary
Nearly every piece of writing I have read about Toronto-based artist Roula Partheniou’s practice makes reference to how disorienting a studio visit with the artist would be. What’s real? What’s fake?!...
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Gleaning a Song at Dalhousie Art Gallery
Soft voices sing forth from the media room at Dalhousie Art Gallery. The entirety of the space has been subjugated by a major exhibition on artist-run centers, and while Eyelevel holds most of the...
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Karilee Fuglem at Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain
I was looking out of my office window, trying to gauge how heavy the rain was and how soaked I'd get if I ventured out in it. What had been snow was now drizzle and I stared at the empty space between...
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Seijun Suzuki at the Cinematheque
Seijun Suzuki’s films didn’t make any sense or money for Nikkatsu Studio. He was a program picture director there until 1967 and his job was to make primarily entertaining films based on the scripts...
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Pillow Talk at General Hardware Contemporary
In a world where any number of high faultin’ concepts, from lifestyle marketing to decolonialism, can serve as a curatorial thesis, why would an exhibition inspired by commitment be a touchy subject?...
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Colin Lyons at aceartinc.
A fixture of the artist-run circuit over the better part of a decade, Colin Lyons has consistently refined and expanded upon a distinctive complex of techniques and themes. He exploits and cleverly...
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Shane Krepakevich at Zalucky Contemporary
Shane Krepakevich is an artist whose work isn’t a problem to be solved so much as it is an attempt to solve a problem. The question he’s concerned with is what to do with the image in the early 21st...
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Cynthia Girard-Renard at Galerie Hughes Charbonneau
In typical Cynthia Girard-Renard fashion, La revanche des Sans-culottes at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau is an exhibition brimming with joyful irreverence, humour, political awareness, and historical...
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Becky Welter-Nolan at the Dalhousie Art Gallery
Dalhousie Art Gallery opened its space up to the Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel back in January for a joint exploration of archiving in artist-run culture. Each center used this time to program two...
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