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Coetus Floreus at Galerie Nicolas Robert
When Edouard Manet exhibited In the Conservatory, critics accused him of making concessions to the public. The painting features a well-dressed couple in a greenhouse, comically missing each other’s...
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Jeneen Frei Njootli at the Contemporary Art Gallery
The inherent intimacy of inheritance, transmission, and knowledge-sharing all operate in Jeneen Frei Njootli’s current exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery. Titled my auntie bought all her...
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Hudinilson Jr. at Scrap Metal Gallery
There must be a word in German that captures the feeling of nostalgia for a time you experienced indirectly. For me, that would be the 1970s, when my only exposure to the art world came through a...
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Alexandrya Eaton at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
The thirty paintings and hooked rugs in Alexandrya Eaton’s exhibition Becoming hang in a grid on either side of a central corridor of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Bright colours, simplified female...
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Vanessa Brown at Esker Foundation
It could be Esker Foundation’s revolving entrance door, but my breath is taken away by the theatrical display that greets me from a semi-circular dais. Two sheer black housecoats stand upright with...
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Redefining Black Identity at BAND Gallery
It is a pleasure to see art institutions continue to expand their definition of gallery space by making use of exterior walls, stairwells, adjunct billboards, and, in the case of BAND Gallery’s...
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Bharti Kher at DHC/ART
In colonial Burma, a thirty year old woman named Ma Nge was found guilty of having sexually transmitted an illness to an officer of the British East India Company. Her punishment (flimsily justified as...
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Janelle Tougas at La Maison des artistes visuels francophones
Janelle Tougas gives new life to innocuous material cast-offs in her exhibition Folle De Chagrin Mais Le Rire Déborde, De Novation en Novation at La Maison des artistes visuels francophones. But this...
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Kelly Jazvac at Museum London
The penciled-in premise of Museum London’s exhibition Lamina Stamina is starting to smear, echoing the inevitable off-gassing associated with the kind of plastic vinyl used throughout artist Kelly...
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It's difficult to put a painting in the mailbox at the Libby Leshgold Gallery
If we’re being honest with ourselves, the first thing we often hope to see upon entering a gallery is a place to sit. Lucky for us, It’s difficult to put a painting in the mailbox: Toward new models of...
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What if we were alive at Untitled Art Society
What if we were alive, the group exhibition currently on view at Untitled Art Society, explores both the simplicity and the complexity of living. These eight videos investigate through effortlessness,...
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Gardening at ma ma
The relentless heat this summer made for a reminder that nature dominates us as much as we attempt to dominate it. Gardening is as good a metaphor as any for the ways in which humans attempt to impose...
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Gather at Flux Gallery
Many musicians turn to monikers or even use sound processors like auto-tune or the vocoder as a veil through which they can emerge from their discursive selves. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have likened...
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Shannon Bool & Kapwani Kiwanga at Musée d'art de Joliette
Borders and migration, land disputes and resource extraction, and race and gender-based discrimination will remain important themes for artists so long as the problems they reflect are unsolved. Like...
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Veils of a Bog at Western Front
After passing through a darkened vestibule, we emerge into copper light and are greeted by three spinning mobiles, Vanessa Brown’s cohort of sculptures collectively titled Veils of a Bog, submerged in...
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I continue to shape at the Art Museum
Earlier this week, Jeremy Dutcher was awarded the 2018 Polaris Music Prize for his debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa. After making his way to the stage, he showered his elders and community with...
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Life of a Craphead at Truck Contemporary Art
Artist duo Life of a Craphead throw colonialism to the forefront in Entertaining Every Second at Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary. There is no turning back. With humour and a critical eye, Amy Lam and...
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Hell in a Cell at Forth
Patrick Klassen doesn’t see his rodent infested basement studio as a problem; rather, it’s an opportunity. Even as they create families and invite friends over, their company in his cramped workspace...
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Star Rider at Galerie Deux Poissons
At first glance, Rebecca Munce and Madeleine Mayo’s Star Rider looks like a neatly conceived exhibition of abstract and representational works. As I walk through Galerie Deux Poissons, a complementary...
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Ouroboros at St. Anne's Anglican Church
If you were looking for an exhibition space as far from a white cube as you could get, a church might just be it. Neither cubic nor stripped of colour, a hall of worship comes laden with stories and...
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