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Jacqueline Hoang Nguyễn at the MacKenzie Art Gallery
For many who find themselves awash in this year’s Canada 150 promotions, Canada's 1967 Centennial looms large. This is no more evident than in Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn's Space Fiction & the Archive,...
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Erika DeFreitas & Daniel Hutchinson at Angell Gallery
Some artists spend their careers doing one thing over and over again. Others have solo exhibitions that look like group shows. Neither method is necessarily better than the other, but the difference in...
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In Search of Expo 67 at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
One of the nineteen artists included in the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal’s In Search of Expo 67 measures the distance between that year and the present in breaths. David K. Ross’s video As...
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Canada On Screen Installations at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Word on the street is that Canada on Screen Installations is the last exhibition to be held in the TIFF Bell Lightbox gallery space. That’s a shame because the mutual inspiration between cinema and...
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Summer 2017 Visual Art Exhibitions at Harbourfront Centre
With summer in full bloom (at least in spirit), you might want to swing down to Harbourfront Centre to check out their exhibitions for the season. Do anything but drive to get there (trust me) and take...
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Mary Anne Barkhouse at The Koffler Gallery
I woke up around five yesterday morning to the sound of my dog barking downstairs. We don’t have air conditioning, so the windows stay open during the night and I always worry that someone will try to...
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Elad Lassry at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Elad Lassry is known for studio photography in the vein of stock advertising images, but he also uses similarly generic found photos, which disrupts the origins of all his pictures. Staged portraits of...
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Wood Land School at SBC Gallery
Montreal’s SBC Gallery is awash with the light of Joi T. Arcand’s neon channel sign reading “Don’t be shy!” in Plains Cree syllabics. Pink beams shoot back a few feet behind it to a poster of an...
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Ben Portis, Kelly Jazvac, Katie Lyle, and more
Curators are the patron saints of generosity in the art world. Sure, artists give a lot of themselves with the work they do, but there’s inevitably a self-serving aspect to their gifts. And yes, there...
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Scott MacFarland at Divison Gallery | Mark Jenkins & David Spriggs at...
Camille Paglia was on the radio and, amidst a flurry of other things, said that people were searching for a new religion. An hour later I was looking up at illuminated clouds hung high on the walls of...
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Jason de Haan at Esker Foundation
I look up, up, neck craned, straining my eyes to see. Jason de Haan’s staggering mid-career retrospective at Esker Foundation– titled Oh for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!– bemoans true sight just as...
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Tau Lewis & Curtis Sanitago at Cooper Cole
Tau Lewis crafts her discards into art that approximates living things. She cobbles together figures from twisted wire and scraps of fabric. One hangs in a Christ-like pose from rebar, salvaged wood,...
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Gunpowder for the Mind at the Art Gallery of Regina
Though the exhibition title is an awkward distillation of an Anti-Slavery Speech from 1852 by Wendell Phillips – “what gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind"– curator Jess...
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SakKijajuk at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut is a large collection of works that chronicles generations of artists from a vast Inuit region in northern subarctic Labrador. Independent curator and scholar...
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Intersections in Dance at Xpace
We like to think of dancing as revolutionary, liberating, and democratic. We paraphrase Emma Goldman and proclaim, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution!” Or we quote another...
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Amanda Boulos at Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects
Amanda Boulos’ debut exhibition at Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects is a wonderful opportunity to consider the myriad ways visual art – and painting in particular – elicits meaning. The artist supplies...
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Hannah Doerksen at Five Art & Merchandise
Engaged in a comparison of morals with his innkeeper, John Wayne’s honourable, no-good, gun-slingin’ character J.B. Books says, “I don’t believe I ever killed a man who didn’t deserve it.” These words...
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David Lafrance at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau
For its summer programming this year, Galerie Hugues Charbonneau organized 8 Artists: 8 Situations beyond its walls and around the city. To kick-off the program, artist and Refus Global signatory...
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HERE at the Aga Khan Museum
If I want to feel old, I look in the mirror. If I want to feel insignificant, I go to the Aga Khan Museum and stare in wonder at centuries-old artefacts from civilizations that rose and fell, created...
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Jack Butler at The Red Head Gallery
How do you criticize visual art when the artist wasn’t even looking when he made it? Is it fair to assess it based on what you see? Does it even make sense to treat it as your standard drawing,...
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