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Saves Nine at aceartinc.
Saves Nine at aceartinc is an exhibition that claims to examine a "post-disciplinary" tendency in contemporary craft, particularly as it is expressed in Manitoba. The works are installed in fairly...
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Alternative Currency at the Art Gallery of Calgary
As August closes, likewise concludes the annual run of summer exhibitions. So, what last visit might you squeeze in, or, if you took a hiatus, which art, artists or venues might you look out for in the...
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Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art at The Power Plant
Back in the day, before I had so clearly been identified as an art writer, I would ever so often be asked to make art. After viewing one of the few installations I created, a local curator of some...
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Nick Danziger at The Founders' Gallery
Rarely do I write that a show is a "must see," but this is one of those occasions. Coming at a time when the world is caught in a jam of international political juggernauts, jackknifing amid the toxic...
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Raymond Roussel at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
Raymond Roussel: The President of the Republic of Dreams, curated by Francois Pillon for Galerie Buchholz, displays a variety of books, photographs, artworks, and memorabilia illustrating a...
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The Fourth Annual Art Spin Exhibition
If you ever want to get on my good side, it never hurts to put your art in a space that isn't white or cubic. I've seen exhibitions in a church, a school, an abandoned architecture office, a house, a...
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Lynne Marsh at Or Gallery
"All things are in motion and nothing at rest," said Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher whose writing is largely imbued with the weight of melancholia and loneliness. The resignation that all...
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Thea Yabut & Giles Whitaker at McIntosh Gallery in London
Thea Yabut's MFA exhibition Lines of Necessity at the McIntosh Gallery focuses on expanding both traditional and contemporary drawing vocabularies within a highly personal project. Through a process of...
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Future Projections & Wavelengths at the Toronto International Film Festival
I have never not been disappointed by a David Cronenberg film. Which isn't to say I think they're bad. It's just they promise so much that my expectations inevitably exceed the final product. Even the...
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Entangled Particles at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
As I wander into the exhibition Entangled Particles: Four Contemporary Chinese Artists, I inhale sharply at the eerie scene before my eyes. A series of ghostly white shirts are suspended from the...
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Kelly Jazvac & Surface Tension at Oakville Galleries
There are two things I require as a critic when I view art: anonymity and an absence of distraction. Anything less than the former and I risk having my evaluation influenced by my desire to be liked....
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Duane Linklater at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
The first thing visitors to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's 2013 Sobey Art Award exhibition will notice is a series of five neon birds. Each is a different colour and their wings are splayed as though...
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F'd Up! at the Art Gallery of Mississauga | Geoffrey Farmer at Mercer Union
I had to leave Toronto on Sunday afternoon to escape all the horseshit that was spewing out of the radio, so I headed over to our nearest neighbour to enjoy a city with a mayor who doesn't smoke crack,...
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Sherry Walchuk at Arch 2 Gallery
Having lost my father eight years ago, the title of Sherry Walchuk's show at ARCH 2 Gallery caught my attention immediately. For My Dad is an installation, including cardboard sculptures and pencil...
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New Century Abstracts at the Art Gallery of Peterborough
Just for the record, I don't really believe in abstraction. We don't see that way; courtesy millennia of Natural Selection, living beings on this planet excel at pattern recognition. Those species that...
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Micah Lexier at The Power Plant | Other Worlds at Harbourfront Centre
I occasionally write for a local design magazine that has a regular feature profiling people, their living spaces, and their stuff. The first person I was asked to cover was the artist Micah Lexier,...
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Colette Urban at Museum London
Colette Urban: Incognito at Museum London's Ivey Galleries is an uneven attempt to introduce viewers to a lifetime of the late artist's prolific practice. The performance-based work which grounds the...
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Locating Ourselves at Scrap Metal Gallery | Derek Liddington at Daniel Faria
For those of us who don't make it out to the biennial circuit on a regular basis, the work of American artist Sarah Sze is something we have to satisfy ourselves to read about. And that's a shame...
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Gareth Lichty at the Cambridge Sculpture Garden
We pay so little attention to our built environment that things often disappear rather quickly from view. Structures become all but invisible because ubiquity makes them so. Such can be the case with...
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Carlos Rene Aguilera Tamayo at you me gallery in Hamilton
Thanks to a recent and vigorous history of exchange programs and related exhibitions, Hamilton's art scene has enjoyed exceptional exposure to Cuban artists. So much so that I greeted the polar bears...
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