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Alootook Ipellie at Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa
In a career that spanned four decades, the artist Alootook Ipellie combined aspects of southern Canadian colonial culture with Inuit culture in a complex process that he described in a poem as “walking...
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Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva at Or Gallery
Artist Arjuna Neuman and UBC prof Denise Ferreira da Silva were prompted by author and academic Stefano Harney to make “a film without time” and they replied with Serpent Rain. While Harney’s challenge...
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Rajni Perera at Project Gallery
A couple weeks ago many of us bundled up, grabbed a hot chocolate, and made our way east for Nuit Blanche’s Scarborough debut. One of my favourite parts of the night, and certainly the most memorable,...
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Young Joon Kwak at the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff)
Walter Phillips Gallery’s exhibition THE CAVE by Los Angeles artist Young Joon Kwak is a visual cacophony of delicious imagery. It ushers the viewer through waves of sexy, oozing objects and a colour...
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Sarain Stump at the Kenderdine Art Gallery
I've never seen the Kenderdine Art Gallery so full. Hundreds of pieces, from framed drawings to painted hides to "image-poems," comprise Mixing Stars and Sand: The Art & Legacy of Sarain Stump....
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Steven Leyden Cochrane at aceartinc.
Gesticulation is often done naturally, without much calculation, but when Steven Leyden Cochrane does it, it feels intentional – as though he needs to motion or utter in order to know the physicality...
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Ismaïl Bahri, James Benning, Ralitsa Doncheva & Miriam Sampaio at...
In a version of Michael Snow’s film Wavelength called WVLNT (Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time), a tedious 45-minute zoom across a New York City loft in the 1967 original is mercifully...
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Hannah Rickards at The Polygon Gallery
Hannah Rickard’s One can make out the surface only by placing any dark-coloured object on the ground at The Polygon Gallery depicts the movements of paper across a studio floor performed by two people....
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Kelly Mark at Olga Korper Gallery
Kelly Mark’s solo exhibition at the AGO’s Present Tense space in 1997 changed my life. When I walked into that room of crumpled paper and graphite covered objects, I didn’t consider myself an...
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Wnoondwaamin | We Hear Them at Stride Gallery
Sound and how it is received was at the fore in the exhibition Wnoondwaamin | We Hear Them at Stride Gallery. Curator Lisa Meyers assembled a compelling collection of work by Autumn Chacon, Jeneen Frei...
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Nanabozoh's Sisters at Dalhousie University Art Gallery
Every time I visit my great aunt Ivy’s place in Grand Prairie, Alberta, I am struck by the amount of life and laughter in the house. It brings me great joy, but also sadness. I don’t get the jokes. I...
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The world according to GARP at Franz Kaka
Wade Avenue is a strange place, to say the least. It’s a neighborhood I often frequented to buy coffee beans by the pound and for studio visits with artists at Akin Collective. It’s also where I worked...
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Mia Sandhu at The Assembly in Hamilton
Soft Kaur, Mia Sandhu’s first solo presentation as a recent and welcome addition to The Assembly’s member roster, features the paper assemblages that first caught my attention in past group exhibitions...
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Sarah Fuller at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
A narrative in blue emerges from the exhibition Refugio by Winnipeg-based artist Sarah Fuller at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. It maps a tale of both place and time, covering islands and...
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Frank & Victor Cicansky at the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery
Frank Cicansky, a Romanian immigrant folk artist, and his son Victor Cicansky, a senior artist and one of the founders of the Prairie Funk movement, document their lived experiences in artworks that...
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BELIEVE at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Given the amount of scepticism directed at the contemporary art world, maybe it wasn’t such a great idea for the title of the premiere exhibition at the new and very hyped home of Toronto’s Museum of...
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James Gardner at McClure Gallery
Reflecting on the signage of Las Vegas in 1965, essayist Tom Wolfe trades in the “helpless language of art history” for more appropriate terms: “Boomerang Modern; Flash Gordon Ming-Alert Spiral; Mint...
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2018 Critic's Picks
Thinking about the past year as a new resident of Calgary is, in some respects, a difficult endeavor. What comes to mind first and foremost are the various instances when support for trans-visibility...
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2018 Critic's Picks
My round-up last year included an exhibition I wanted to write about, but for whatever reason, never managed to. There is always something that grasps my attention and then disappears through the...
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2018 Critic's Picks
What a year it’s been. I won’t waste any time recalling the crimes of the administration to the south or spotlighting our recently elected provincial leader (both devoid of brains or backbone). Instead...
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