Sarah Sense at Urban Shaman
Sarah Sense’s colour photographs in her exhibition Cowgirls and Indians at Urban Shaman pulsate and shapeshift as your eyes move across them and you try to piece together what it is you’re looking at....
View ArticleNelson Henricks & Ross Bleckner at Paul Petro
If it doesn’t already exist, there is a dissertation to be written about modernism and the sleeve design for Smell the Glove. If you haven’t seen This is Spinal Tap in a while, the album the hapless...
View ArticlePippin Barr at the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina
This past month Saskatchewan experienced the coldest temperatures on record since the 1930s. With each day that the mercury in the thermometer fails to rise above -30, it becomes harder to leave the...
View ArticleLife of a Craphead at Centre Clark
I heard raves about Life of a Craphead’s exhibition at Centre Clark before seeing it: “raw and funny”, “best art show in ages”, and, my favourite, “can’t stop crying and thinking everyone else can just...
View ArticleAmalie Atkins at the Art Gallery at Evergreen
I feel nostalgic in Saskatchewan-based artist Amalie Atkins’ where the hour floats. Or it could be that I am being sentimental. Or maybe melodramatic. It’s tough to differentiate between them. Her solo...
View ArticleProductive Discomfort at Xpace Cultural Centre
Productive Discomfort at Xpace (presented in partnership with Myseum of Toronto) is the culmination of five workshops that curator and artist facilitator Lauren Cullen led this past fall. She invited...
View ArticleTamara Lee-Anne Cardinal at Untitled Art Society
Fingers laced together, my hands form a basket – a catchment – through which rain might weave and collect. To offer the basin of a hand freely, its contents extended towards another, is to give a gift....
View ArticleMorgan Melenka at Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
Everything is at once familiar and strange in Morgan Melenka’s MFA thesis exhibition delaminate. She has reproduced architectural ornamentation and flourishes such as fountains, arches, and bollards –...
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