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Earhtlings at Esker Foundation
Dusty sparkles that cover and muffle the city have been falling for the last three days. This is about as aesthetically magical as Calgary gets in the winter. Well timed for the season, Earthlings at...
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Illusion of Process at the Art Gallery of York University
The trio of artists currently exhibiting at the Art Gallery of York University are perhaps better addressed as a series of solos than a three-part composition. They are all from Toronto, roughly at the...
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Lyndl Hall at the Burrard Art Foundation
Circle, Sphere, Horizon Line, Lyndl Hall’s solo-exhibition at the Burrard Art Foundation, is a continuation of her critical inquiry into the iconography of place making – from wanderlust to...
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Ed Fornieles, Chloe Wise, & Megan Rooney at Division Gallery
Explaining what you don’t like about an exhibition can be just as complicated as explaining what you do like. I initially thought I didn’t like Ed Fornieles’ third of the three solo shows currently on...
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Material Girls at College Art Galleries
What is a material girl? More than a mere gold-digger, she’s a materials digger. She likes to roll up her sleeves and get her hands dirty. She is crafty, meaning she transforms her materials in subtle...
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This Must Be the Place at Lisa Kehler Art + Projects
The Talking Heads’ 1983 single This Must Be The Place is a breezy, slightly ambivalent love song. There have been a lot of love songs to Winnipeg from the art scene over the past few years and This...
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Jonathas de Andrrade, Maria Hupfield & Kapwani Kiwanga at The Power Plant
There are some exhibitions where one work is enough to saturate the entire experience. The Power Plant has one such example on display right now and I could have watched it all afternoon when I dropped...
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Dean Baldwin & Michelle Furlong at Parisian Laundry
Michelle Furlong and Dean Baldwin have plotted a narrative stroll through Parisian Laundry– from an over-lit and bustling piazza upstairs to a spotlit card room in the basement. On a crowded opening...
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FEMINISTRY IS HERE at Mercer Union
The task of the art critic is to identify things, so what is one to do when faced with an exhibition about fluidity? My usual recourse to definition, to establishing meaning, to making judgments is...
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Lili Huston-Herterich at Zalucky Contemporary
After more than a decade reviewing art exhibitions, there are still only a handful of works I’ve ever wanted to buy. It’s partly because I see art most often in public places and that’s where I think...
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Sarah Fuller at Christine Klassen Gallery
I usually don’t write about exhibitions that are closing in the very near future, but with only ten days remaining to see it I’m compelled to mention Sarah Fuller’s solo exhibition at Christine Klassen...
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Danika Vandersteen at Lost & Found
Danika Vandersteen’s How Many Versions of Thyself is the first exhibition to occupy the crisp new white wall at Lost & Found. The shop-gallery-venue that sits on the corner of Agricola and Harris...
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Stanzie Tooth at General Hardware
Gabriel Orozco’s Yielding Stone is a perfect metaphor for the experience of travel. As his soft plasticine ball is kicked around, it picks up grit and debris while also acquiring impressions of the...
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Walter Scott at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art
Standing before Walter Scott’s coloured pencil and acrylic drawings at Macaulay and Co. Fine Art, I gaze at many different pairs of droopy Snoopy eyes. In some drawings, they float like a league of...
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We are safe and all is well in our world at Scrap Metal Gallery
Is it serendipity or zeitgeist that the same week I visit an exhibition on the limits of language, the New Yorker runs a piece on the death of criticism? Like cab drivers, pay phone manufacturers, and...
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Dineo Seshee Bopape & David Arseneau at Darling Foundry
At first glance, the Darling Foundry’s double-exhibition of works by Dineo Seshee Bopape and David Arseneau seems utterly divided in tone, technique and content. What might a South African mixed-media...
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2017 University of Toronto MVS Studio Program Graduating Exhibition at the...
Is there a correlation between what goes on in an MFA program and the amount of writing that appears in an artists’ work? Does it have something to do with what goes on in school or do the type of...
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Christopher Campbell Gardiner at the Dunlop Art Gallery
Christopher Campbell Gardiner is a magician. He transforms anxiety into serene objects through his meticulous artistic labour. His retrospective exhibition at the Dunlop Art Gallery's satellite venue,...
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Gunilla Josephson at Prefix ICA | Gabriela Jolowicz at Open Studio
There are some works of art that trigger – much to the consternation, I imagine, of the creator – only a sliver of the possible interpretations. The artist’s intention could encompass history,...
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Tom Richardson at Field Contemporary
Tom Richardson’s exhibition Rehearsal for a Synthetic Theatre, currently on display at Field Contemporary, is built on a composite of historical, biographical, cinematic, and musical sources that...
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