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Moyra Davey at Satellite Gallery
Moyra Davey's solo exhibition at Satellite Gallery, Ornament and Reproach, is as much a collaborative experiment with artist curator John Goodwin as it is a formal retrospective. Amidst collaborations...
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Obsolescence/Invention at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
In Obsolescence / Invention, their latest exhibition at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, artists Robert Bean and Ilan Sandlar explore the traces that materials, life forms, ideas, and cultural...
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Nicholas Baier at Division Gallery |l Jenine Marsh & Provisions...
The biggest challenge for the contemporary artist is how to deal with the ridiculous amount of freedom. A writer is limited by the page. A musician is anchored to instruments and sound. Film and...
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William Fisk at Nicholas Metivier | Dorian Fitzgerald at Clint Roenisch
Like a lot of people in the art world this weekend, I spent a good part of it engrossed in The New Yorker's profile on mega-dealer David Zwirner. The fascination was the immense amount of money...
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Paper Trails at Avalanche
It didn't take long for Avalanche to relocate after losing their former venue to the summer solstice floods, and directors Nate McLeod and Cassandra Paul continue to make a lot out of a little. Their...
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Toxicity at Plug In ICA
Bioparanoia set in for me as soon as I opened the glass doors of Plug In ICA and entered the warm, humid galleries of Toxicity. Co-curated by Dr. Melentie Pandilovski and Dr. Jennifer Willet, this...
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No Boys With Frogs at DNA Artspace
The latest exhibition space to open up in London, DNA Artspace is a privately owned gallery run by Allison and Damir Matic, partially modeled after spaces such as Toronto's Scrap Metal Gallery, and...
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Janet Morton at Paul Petro | Heather Goodchild at Katharine Mulherin
Sometimes walking into an art gallery is like running into an old friend. Even in a city of average size like Toronto, the scene is relatively small and the community still feels connected even amongst...
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2013 Critic's Picks
The single best contemporary artwork I've seen in Calgary this year is Wally Dion's enormous hanging sculpture at the Esker Foundation's group show Fiction/Non-Fiction. From a distance the work looks...
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2013 Critic's Picks
2013 was a banner year for Winnipeg. The city embraced the idea of community with myriad successes. Ranging from exceptional institutional programming to collaboration between culinary art and...
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2013 Critic's Picks
If only for having the wherewithal for getting it done (and isn't that the case with all art: there are a lot of people with a lot of ideas, but only a few make it happen), Micah Lexier's More Than...
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2013 Critic's Picks
In 2013 Montreal saw a shake-up in the upper echelons of the art milieu – particularly all things involving Alexandre Taillefer, president of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, board member of...
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2013 Critic's Picks
Artist Steve Higgins' artist residency at MSVU Art Gallery tops my list of art events in 2013 as it offered the public a rare chance to witness the culmination of four decades of work. Gallery director...
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Melanie Authier at Rodman Hall Art Centre in St. Catherines
From a distance, the twelve paintings in Melanie Authier's Grisailles deliver a sublime sweep of landscapes evocative of caves or arctic shipwrecks. While this may be the influence of the snowy grounds...
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Kim Sooja at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Spanning thirty years of a singularly unique artistic practice, KIMSOOJA Unfolding at the Vancouver Art Gallery traces an arc of emotional intelligence that bridges preoccupations with formalism,...
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Tamara Henderson at Erin Stump Projects | Coming to Terms at the Jackman...
After having spent the holidays holed up in a BC town whose most recent civic accomplishment in the name of culture was successfully rejecting a developer's proposal for a three-story building at the...
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Jules de Balincourt at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art
This week I ventured out of doors, into the frigid temperatures, to check out the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' exhibition Jules de Balincourt: Paintings 2004-2013. I've followed his painting career...
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Brenda Draney at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton
The concept of "precarity" connotes both the positive state of ultimate freedom and individuality as well as the negative lack of stability, security, or grounding in community. But as others have...
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Elise Rasmussen at Gallery 101 in Ottawa
My year began at Gallery 101 with a screening of a video by Elise Rasmussen that was so new the credits read 2014. Variations documents a series of actors' improvisations based on the artist Carl...
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Chris Curreri at Daniel Faria | Robert Waters at PM Gallery
I'm in the midst of writing an eight thousand-word document and my ability to string together a cogent series of sentences is reaching its breaking point, but the inspiration provided by a couple...
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