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Patrick Dunford at Jarvis Hall Gallery
Tree planting is backbreaking, competitive work – endured for wads of cash and a tight-knit sense of camaraderie. A carnal sleuth with the stench of free art opening wine on my breath, I pop a soft...
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Trisha Baga at Gallery TPW
Perhaps it’s because I read The Republic once a year, but any time I see a cave I think of Plato. The interior of his analogical cavern corresponds with the realm of illusion, which for him meant...
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Qui parle ? / Who Speaks? at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Qui parle ? / Who Speaks? is a deceptively simple title. To answer provisionally: the artists do, as women (Jo-Anne Balcaen, Krista Belle Stewart, Moyra Davey, Suzy Lake, Isabelle Pauwels), and as men...
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Sebastien Aubin at the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery
Sébastien Aubin’s no brighter in the middle at the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery follows in the tradition of re-presenting found (and inherited) things as art. Included in his assortment...
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Kader Attia & Emeka Ogboh at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
The FOMO I long harboured after missing last year’s Venice Biennale (and every other year, for that matter) was swiftly mitigated by the arrival of The Power Plant’s winter 2018 exhibitions featuring...
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Julia Feyrer at Catriona Jeffries Gallery
I have a higher than average number of friends who were child actors or extras in the local film industry. I ask them to regale me with their stories of being on sets and standing mere paces from a...
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Erik Edson at Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown
The moment you walk up the Confederation Centre stairs and enter the cavernous, high ceilinged gallery that houses Sackville-based artist Erik Edson’s retrospective Other Stories, you are in another...
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Collin Brown at Marion Nicoll Gallery
Collin Brown’s Further Reductions at the Marion Nicoll Gallery strikes me as a somewhat mournful rejection of the colourfully political, portrait-saturated Internet-age. Most of the track lights point...
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Andrea Carvalho at The Assembly in Hamilton
The Assembly’s architecturally quirky storefront space is a potent site for Hamilton artist Andrea Carvalho’s sculptural interventions in Light From Two Sides. She responds to and redefines the...
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Objects of My Affection at CSA Space
Over the past year, CSA Space has presented a diverse string of photography and photo-based exhibitions. Some worked in rhythm with the ongoing influence of local neo-conceptual picture makers, while...
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Echoes at Remai Modern in Saskatoon
It’s the presence that stayed with me in Echoes, the Remai Modern’s exhibition of recent acquisitions by Indigenous artists. The presence of Indigenous bodies, which a good friend once reminded me are...
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Vikky Alexander at Trépanier Baer
I once lived in a 1970s-era house with two other roommates I found on Kijiji. The walls were covered with imitation wood panelling and the carpet was a seafoam green with a wave-patterned pile. In the...
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Sophia Al Maria at Mercer Union
Anyone who has ever set foot in the Dufferin Mall would balk at the notion that this west end edifice could also double as a temple, yet this is precisely the portrayal of Gulf shopping malls...
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Ai Ikeda at Calaboose
Chris Kraus opens her book Where Art Belongs with an account of a short-lived LA recording studio cum gallery called Tiny Creatures. She pauses on a manifesto penned by its founder in which the gallery...
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Logan MacDonald at aceartinc.
The landscape photography of North America has historically been about showing what is present: abundant natural resources and pristine, seemingly vacant, land up for grabs. It also does well in...
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Adad Hannah at Equinox Gallery
Seeing the human body in unusual positions usually results in a confluence of amazement and discomfort. New Arrangements, Adad Hannah’s solo exhibition at Equinox Gallery, features a series of...
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Trevor Paglen at Prefix ICA
There is a type of subterfuge that is best described as hiding in plain sight. Governments gravitate to this strategy because it means they can’t be accused of covering anything up. All the evidence is...
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Jacob Dutton at Five Art & Merchandise
There is a heart-shaped Jacuzzi floating in blackness, complete with romantically lit candle standing up on its own, a lip-like plump red rim, and steam emanating in a peculiarly angular blob. A bar of...
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Lauren Lavery & Stephanie Ng at Flux Gallery
After dropping out of school and relocating to Portland in the mid-90s, Miranda July immersed herself in the DIY art scene as a performance artist and initiated a free film distribution system for...
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Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca at the Art Gallery of York...
From the moment I arrived at the splashy York University subway station, it was pretty clear that the Art Gallery of York University’s current exhibition, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, was...
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