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InDigiNous Aotearoa: Virtual Histories, Augmented Futures at Urban Shaman...
The connecting tissue in the assembled works from InDigiNous Aotearoa: Virtual Histories, Augmented Futures at Urban Shaman is right there in the stylized title. These form-diverging artworks by seven...
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Sarah Cale at Clint Roenisch Gallery
When Jessica Bradley closed her gallery two years ago, there were two artists in particular who I was worried I’d miss: Tricia Middleton, who unfortunately hasn’t had much play in this neighbourhood...
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Dilara Akay & Derya Akay at grunt gallery
On the occasion of their collaborative exhibition Ghost Spring at grunt gallery, mother and son artists Dilara Akay and Derya Akay present a cohort of sculptures that portray the iconography of...
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Allison Katz at Oakville Galleries
Do other countries regard artists who establish themselves abroad with a mixture of awe and disdain? Or is that just a Canadian thing? Or maybe it’s just a Toronto thing? Those independent spirits who...
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Morning Star at the Jackman Humanities Institute
The Jackman Humanities Institute is one of the stranger spaces to view art in the city. The lobby of the building has been restored to its Art Deco heyday right down to the brass Brooks Brothers...
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Stephen Nachtigall at The Lily
An angelic Monstera deliciosa lights up and ripples with a transcendent wind. A 3D animation loops on a monitor turned portrait-style onto its side and strapped to a beam with two black ratchet straps....
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Liz Knox at PAVED Arts
To be honest, there are few things I’d rather do than watch a trashy TV crime drama. So, I knew in advance that I’d enjoy Liz Knox’s exhibition Law and Order at PAVED Arts, since it is inspired by the...
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Lauren Hall at Erin Stump Projects | Tegan Moore at Zalucky Contemporary
John Cage made the empty space of performance part of the composition with his “silent” piece4’33”. The impact of that revolutionary gesture might be more evident in art galleries than in concert halls...
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Adam Gunn at Art Mur
The first painting in Adam Gunn's solo exhibition, now on view at Art Mûr, is a riff on Courbet’s Origin of the World. With black and grey vertical brushstrokes bordering a glowing white void, Gunn...
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In Our Nature at LANTERN
At first, it was a bit funny to find out the latest LANTERN show assembled four Canadian white dudes for an exhibition called In Our Nature. As it turns out, the show presents thirteen small to...
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Brent Wadden at the Contemporary Art Gallery
Two Scores, Brent Wadden’s solo-exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery, was recently subject to a bit of a walloping by Andrew Witt in Artforum. He opened his review with “Wadden’s large woven...
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Camilla Singh at A Space
Camilla Singh brings a refreshing "fuck you" attitude to the art world. In these polite times, work that literally gives one the finger or relies on bathroom stall humour to nail its point to the wall...
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Shary Boyle & Emily Vey Duke at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Through a call and response project spanning at least six years, Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke have constructed a narrative of a young girl coming of age in a wild, post-apocalyptic world. Their...
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Anna Hawkins at Untitled Art Society
A structure sits in the middle of Untitled Art Society’s main room: the standalone projection screen built for Anna Hawkins’ video work Fall Fell Felt for her solo exhibition of the same name. Blinds...
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Performing Lives at OPTICA
After a conference in Paris this winter I headed to the Louvre to see the paintings by Delacroix, Gros, and Gericault that I’d only ever read about. Determined to make the most of my free day in the...
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Dagmara Genda at aceartinc.
In her latest exhibition, Everything That’s Lost at aceartinc., Dagmara Genda is, to some degree, playing “artist as documentarian” in her own backwards provisional way. The result makes for a tacitly...
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Sanctuary Inter/rupted at Xpace Cultural Centre
Canada is a country consisting entirely of narratives of displacement. Whether you’re Indigenous, settler, refugee, or immigrant, you’re relationship to this land is fraught with instability. The real...
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this will never finish at Support in London
“Do you exist for my comfort?” This was the question asked by artist Juliane Foronda in the inaugural group show this will never finish at London’s project space Support. Her text was printed on folded...
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Jamie Hilder at Malaspina Printmakers
Each of Jamie Hilder’s prints in Landmarks, now on display at Malaspina Printmakers, tells a story we’ve heard before but can never understand. Each of the ten framed intaglio prints pair two accounts...
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Kevin McKenzie at The Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery
Ghost and God, the first piece in Regina artist Kevin McKenzie’s exhibition Resurrection at The Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, is so transparent that it is almost immaterial. A violet circle of...
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