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Benjamin Klein at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporaine
Wake up adrift in a canoe on a clear night and the reflection of the stars will make it feel like you’re flying through space. We are all, at 1000 miles per hour, in canoes, asleep in our beds, or...
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Àdisòkàmagan/Nous connaître un peu...
Àdisòkàmagan/Nous connaître un peu nous-mêmes/We’ll all become stories, curated by Rebecca Basciano, Jim Burant, Michelle Gewurtz and Catherine Sinclair for the Ottawa Art Gallery, has a trilingual...
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Aleesa Cohene at Western Front
I Don’t Get It includes an array of olfactory sculptures, inkjet prints, a beach towel, a multi-channel sound work that transmits from motorcycle side view mirrors, and an edition of embroidered...
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Li Salay at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton
Within moments of visiting the Art Gallery of Alberta exhibition Li Salay, you find yourself falling into step with the deep, rhythmic drumming emanating from Casey Koyczan’s installation Naet’a; The...
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Andrée-Anne Roussel at TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary
The camera pans over hands lazily kneading dough and minimally stocked white kitchen shelves, then down past fine wood railings to the hardwood floor. Montréal filmmaker and media artist Andrée-Anne...
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A History of Violence at ENEMY PREY IGNORE museum gallery
Almost fifty years has passed since the police busted the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto for – according to a CBC radio report– “exhibiting a disgusting object.” Mark Prent was barely out of school at the...
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa at Plug In ICA
Think of a prequel scene to Home Alone, one where Kevin McCallister is an infant and has barely been potty trained. All he knows how to do is giggle carefreely, make a huge mess, and occasionally...
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Laura Acosta & David Jaime at TAP Art Space
A 1963 LIFE Magazine photo shows two little girls crouching in front of an air vent at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Flanked by abstract paintings, the vent holds possibilities for the girls that...
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Alison Yip at Monte Clark Gallery
The peach paint strokes of Alison Yip’s mural at Monte Clark Gallery are not vying for trompe l'oeil; however, the thinly rendered landscape manages to produce the urge to enter this place where water...
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Helen Cho at Trinity Square Video
You Remained Dismembered, a multimedia exhibition by Toronto-based artist Helen Cho, features a single channel video and a collection of sculptural pieces (very neatly) scattered across Trinity Square...
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Natasha Jensen at Five Art & Merchandise
Antiques, Blush, Character Home, Desire, Exotic landscape, Fainting, Garter, Heathcliff, Iron Gate, Jewelry, Kisses, Loss of Control, Matriarchy, Old Hairstyles, Protest, Robin’s Egg, Seduction,...
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Jane Kidd at MSVU Art Gallery
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery has a large parquet floor and high ceilings that make the single room an open and breathable space. Jane Kidd’s tapestries hang on the walls and rest, upright...
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Maskull Lasserre at Arsenale Contemporary
Masculinity in visual art is cool as long as the artist is critiquing it, but what happens when a male artist uses traditionally masculine tropes in his work? How much ambiguity or criticality is...
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(Res)idual at Hamilton Artists Inc.
Poetry clings to the streetfront windows of Hamilton Artists Inc. in writer tunchai redvers’s poignant contribution to their current group exhibition: They press forgiveness Onto our souls with Each...
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Pernille Lystlund Matzen & Nanna Rebekka at Or Gallery
Breaker of Horses is a video essay directed by Pernille Lystlund Matzen and Nanna Rebekka that has genuinely taught me something. The work, currently on view at Or Gallery, hinges on two bronze public...
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Resilience presented by MAWA
As its title suggests, the basis for this nationwide outdoor exhibition of Indigenous women artists is resilience. Resilience addresses the word openly and considers not only its interrelatedness to...
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URL:IRL at the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina
The latest exhibition from the curatorial team at the Dunlop Art Gallery is every bit the overwhelming, Baudriardian hyperreality suggested by its title: URL:IRL. Curators Blair Fornwald, Jennifer...
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Diagrams of Power at Onsite Gallery
Design has to be one of the most nebulous fields of study. If you don’t believe me, take a look at its Wikipedia entry and the nearly forty disciplines included – not to mention the many related...
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Handpic'd 2018 at Viviane Art Gallery
Handpic’d 2018 is the fifth annual invitational exhibition of emerging and newly graduated artists at Viviane Art Gallery. This iteration features three award-winning artists capsizing ancient or...
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Gabi Dao at Blinkers
In all the ways poems are unconcerned with telling a story and have an imperceptible relationship with cause and effect, a show like Gabi Dao’s A knife to wither your petal fingers at Blinkers...
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