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VPN to IRL & Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh at Xpace
You don’t have to be that old to remember a time before smartphones, but they have become so pervasive that even a temporary glitch in their operations becomes traumatic. My iPhone recently refused to...
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Alexis Lavoie at Galerie d'Art d'Outremont
Painter Alexis Lavoie’s exhibition Faits divers at Galerie d’Art d’Outremont is disturbing and ambitious. He poses urgent questions about how images cross a threshold from virtual spaces for mere...
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Here Forward at Matter Gallery
For a cosmopolitan city, Toronto doesn’t have a cosmopolitan art scene. However, efforts to exhibit work that reflects the diversity of the city continue to be made. One such example is the recently...
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The Magic Project at Alteregos Cafe
Kate MacDonald and Emma Paulson’s collaborative work as The Magic Project may happen largely in a time and space beyond the walls of galleries, but for the month of April their photos are lighting up...
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Sojourner Truth Parsons & Cosima von Bonin at Oakville Galleries
Your gut reaction isn't necessarily the best indication of the worth of an artwork. Some people have well-calibrated guts that are almost always on the mark. Others, not so much and they learn to do...
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Strike a Chord at Sur Gallery
One of the unlikeliest of activist organizations in this city is FLAP - the Fatal Light Awareness Program. While most injustices are intentional or obvious, the adversity these folks fight against is...
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Marianne Nicolson at the Nanaimo Art Gallery
Several recent exhibitions have addressed Nanaimo as a harbour city, a nexus of resource extraction, trade and labour stories. Awi'nagwiskasu: Real Land, Marianne Nicolson’s solo-exhibition at the...
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Krista Belle Stewart at Franz Kaka
If anyone ever gets on your case or in your face about how arts funding is a waste of money, it’s worth pointing out that one thing artists in this country have learned to be good at is stretching a...
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Ed Atkins at DHC/ART
The CNN headline reads: “A loud crash, then nothing: Sinkhole swallows Florida man.” Jeff Bush was buried alive with his bed, dresser, and TV under his Hillsborough County home in 2013. Modern Piano...
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Wafaa Bilal at the Dunlop Art Gallery
Progressing from the violence of the internet-connected paintball gun that made him famous, Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal's solo exhibition at the Dunlop Art Gallery consists of two poetic and constructive...
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What does one do with such a clairvoyant image? at Gallery 44 & Trinity...
Speculative fiction is such a better term than science fiction because it emphasizes all the ways in which the genre entertains possibilities – major and minor, scientific and not – about what we could...
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Sandra Brewster at Georgia Scherman Projects
Identity has always been contested territory, though nowadays dissenting voices are more easily heard. Conflicts play out in the realm of representation and artists have always been at the frontlines...
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Derek Brunen at Duplex
Derek Brunen’s short video Loving-Kindness, currently on view at Duplex, features an older gentleman who is working on himself. He enters a vehicle parked on the street and meticulously adjusts the...
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Annie MacDonell at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
The camera circles the fracas with a steady gaze. The video begins moments after the police line is broken, so it’s difficult to discern whose side anyone is on. There’s a sidewalk and a grassy area...
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Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau at CIRCA Art Actuel
In Is It The Sun Or The Asphalt All I See Is Bright Black, Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau describe the predicament of being in and with our bodies. Their exhibition at CIRCA Art Actuel includes a...
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Bjorn Copeland & Nikki Woolsey at Cooper Cole
Assemblage is the biggest con of the art world, and any artist presenting some arrangement of scavenged refuse (or store-bought goods) as their own should, at least, be prepared to weather that...
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Mollie Cronin at Seven Bays Cafe | Elise Boudreau Graham at Lost & Found
“The Barista Doesn't Have A Crush On You” reads a black and white comic panel hanging on the wall of Seven Bays Café. Soft Fail is Mollie Cronin’s first show as Art Brat Comics. Using her analog design...
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Place and Placement at Re-Imagine Galleria
Toronto, I love you but you continue to fail to live up to your potential. You’re a classic underachiever, which makes it so frustrating to walk your streets. A really great building will catch my eye...
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Alison Yip at Monte Clark
Four paintings by Alison Yip are flying under the radar at Monte Clark Gallery. The gallery’s press release explains that her exhibition’s title, Hagazussa, comes from the ancient High German word for...
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Patterson Ewen at Olga Korper
The last time I was in Germany was almost twenty years ago. As I visited the public galleries in all the cities we travelled through, I noticed that each one had at least one work by each member of the...
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