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Sheila Hicks at the Textile Museum
My God, I needed to see Sheila Hicks’ exhibition at the Textile Museum. The day, the week, the month had been shitty and I craved respite. I needed the deliverance from daily stress I can sometime find...
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Jean-Sebastien Denis at Studio 21
Jean-Sébastien Denis’s drawings on Mylar at Studio 21 bring to mind psychogeographic mapmaking in their assemblage of lines and dots. Black and white is the dominant colour theme throughout, but the...
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Michel de Broin at Division Gallery
I feel somewhat guilty about reviewing this exhibition this week. It has nothing to do with the artist or the art. Way back in January I challenged myself to review a different gallery each week over...
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2016 Critic's Picks
After a very strange poetry reading, a friend coerced me to attend a performance by Strawberry. She kept saying it, “Strawberry! But, Straw-berry!” until I agreed to go with her. Their live...
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2016 Critic's Picks
Akimblog’s first Winnipeg correspondent, Cliff Eyland has contributed to the local scene in so many ways. His constant and reassuring presence on social media fell silent when he entered the hospital...
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2016 Critic's Picks
The first attempt at a province-wide contemporary art survey, Terroir was a multi-year project headed by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia that curated work by twenty-nine Nova Scotian artists selected...
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Astral Bodies at Mercer Union
Maybe it’s the time of year or maybe it’s the change of seasons or maybe I’m just feeling increasingly lost in this world, but an exhibition like Astral Bodies at Mercer Union hits me where I live....
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2016 Critic's Picks
The denouement of 2016 is a little more bleak than the end of other years in recent memory. It’s difficult not to sink into abjection and nihilism – to throw your hands up and say, “What’s the point of...
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2016 Critic's Picks
While 2016 saw Calgary fall deeper into a recession, the art scene was on the up and up. Here are three exhibitions that I didn’t write about this year but I consider highlights. They indicate...
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2016 Critic's Picks
The year began with a January visit to Regina as an artist included in the exhibition On The Table at the Dunlop Art Gallery and to scout the city's climate for my impending move. Some of the best art...
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2016 Critic's Picks
We learn from studying history that things don't just happen. Every unexpected event will, on closer inspection, reveal the roots that lead to the revolution, the riot, or the reaction that none of the...
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Shannon Bool at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery
This collection of recent works by Shannon Bool at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery gets its title from a 1983 exhibition of carpets at London’s Hayward Gallery and offers refreshing complexity, despite...
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Freud's Mouth at Cooper Cole Gallery
Curator Ebony L. Haynes (also the director of NYC’s Martos Gallery) says the work she gathered for Freud’s Mouth, a group exhibition that is closing any minute now at Cooper Cole Gallery, is “not your...
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Geoffrey Farmer at Catriona Jeffries
Geoffrey Farmer is a seasoned architect of worlds collaged from references to music, literature, theatre, history, and more. His latest for Catriona Jeffries is simply titled The Kitchen. On entering...
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Winter White at Olga Korper
It’s a little disappointing to visit an exhibition called Winter White on an afternoon in January when a day of rain has washed the snow away. If you live in a Canadian city, you understand that snow...
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Mujer Artista at aceartinc.
Initiated through an informal meeting between filmmaker Cecilia Araneda, interdisciplinary artist Praba Pilar, and visual artist Monica Martinez back in 2014, Mujer Artista came together to create...
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Sky Glabush at MKG127
The new Flaming Lips record came out last week and predictably it failed to measure up against their previous work. Someone once said, “You’re only as good as your last song,” but there’s also an...
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How Do You Know at Hermes Gallery
Knowledge in the current patriarchal construct of science is questioned in How Do You Know, a group exhibition curated by Becky Welter Nolan for the artist-cooperative space Hermes Gallery. Three...
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Viktor Kolar at Stephen Bulger Gallery
Street photography provides two rewards that are at odds with each other. On the one hand, there is a voyeuristic thrill in spying on the lives of others. When otherwise we'd avert our eyes, instead we...
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Wally Dion at Urban Shaman
When he was a younger artist, Wally Dion was once asked by an Elder, “Who gave you permission to use the colours you are using?” As a member of the Yellow Quill First Nation who was raised apart from...
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