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Gallery Galleria at the Galleria Mall
It’s no big revelation to point out that artists are, in part, the architects of their own destruction when it comes to habitat. Cycles of urban gentrification are well documented over the past...
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Nicole Kelly Westman & Del Hillier at Untitled Art Society
Artists don’t really seem to adopt alter egos anymore. After the heyday of 1970s performance and mail art (shout out to Flakey Rosehip and The MacBooty Brothers), the practice has fallen away over the...
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The Fire Throws Sparks at Urban Shaman
There are few birthdays quite as significant as your twentieth – the moment when you leave behind your heady teenage years and begin to face adulthood in full. For an artist-run centre, turning twenty...
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Public Studio at the AGYU / Sarah Anne Johnson at the McMichael Collection
Getting back to nature is an increasingly complex endeavor, not simply because it raises these two questions: 1. Were we ever there in the first place? 2. When did we leave? The simple answers might be...
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Mitch Mitchell at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Only a few more days remain to soak in the depth of Mitch Mitchell’s I Will Meet You In The Sun at the Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia. His sculptural works are spotted throughout the open space like...
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Trevor Discoe at the Dynamo Arts Association
What does the millennial have to smile about? Trevor Discoe’s exhibition You Are Here at Dynamo Arts Association suggests that you have “arrived.” But where, exactly? That which is presented as a...
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Jeff Bierk at AC Repair Co.
Portrait photography is a collaborative process with inescapable ethical implications, as the AGO's recent Outsiders exhibition made clear. While no one gets stressed if the subjects are rich and...
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Lindsay Arnold at Hollow Earth Gallery
Winnipeg’s West End is known for its turn-of-the-twentieth-century houses. These houses, with their good bones and relatively low property taxes, have long attracted artists and cultural workers to...
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Canadian Belonging(s) at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
You make a devil's bargain on becoming an art critic. By dedicating yourself to the delights of all that artists can provide, you risk becoming inured to those very delights the longer you engage in...
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Mathieu Lefevre at Centre Clark
I didn’t know Mathieu Lefèvre well, but sometimes I think I see him walking down the street, his blond hair and slight figure glimpsed through the crowd, and I have to check myself because it can’t...
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2016 Luminato Festival
Easily the most impressive thing about this year's Luminato Festival– the local multi-arts extravaganza that works best when it presents genre-spanning spectacles requiring deep pockets and good...
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Yvonne Mullock at Stride Gallery
The twin festivals that mark Calgary summer are set to descend: Sled Island and the Calgary Stampede. Not twins at all really, these events – a hundred year old rodeo vs. a leading edge music festival...
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Semiopaque at G Gallery
Sometime last month a couple students put a pair of eyeglasses on the floor of a SFMOMA gallery and tricked – or inspired (your call) – visitors to regard it as art. Anyone who's been paying attention...
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William Robinson at Galerie Sans Nom
As someone who grew up attending concerts in the Brutalist building of the Dalhousie Arts Center, music for me is strangely synonymous with concrete. Between dance recitals and symphonies I ran my...
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The Fraud that Goes Under the Name of Love at Audain Gallery
“The fraud that goes under the name of love” is a phrase that passes through two politicized voices operating today: 1) Silvia Federici, who is then quoted in a poem by 2) Anne Boyer. Where Federici...
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Angela Grauerholz at the Ryerson Image Centre
There are some works that effectively sum up an artist's career and render the rest of her oeuvre secondary. For Angela Grauerholz, that work is Privation from 2001. In this series of portraits of...
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Brad Phillips at Division Gallery
When I let on that I’m interested in art or listen to obscure music, my students sometimes peg me as a hipster, so I have to explain to them that, if I’m anything, I’m a slacker. They’re too young to...
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Festina lente at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran
Visiting commercial galleries in the summertime can be a bit like peeking behind a curtain into the mental backroom of the owner. The now standard group exhibitions that appear in July and August allow...
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Ann MacIntosh Duff at Nicholas Metivier Gallery
On the left edge of Ann MacIntosh Duff’s Watching and Thinking (a watercolour painting that can be found on the rearmost wall of her soon-to-close first solo exhibition at Nicholas Metivier Gallery),...
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Jacobo Zambrano at Spare Room
Spare Room is set up in such a way that before entering the gallery, you pass a vestibule that houses a wooden desk belonging to curator Sung Pil Yoon. His desk cordons off an alarming amount of stuff....
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