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Megan Morman at Stride Gallery
Who likes a party? Well, maybe that depends on what kind of party! For Megan Morman and her current solo show at Stride, Art Party is a fun and rich platform from which to launch myriad forms of...
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Maryse Lariviere at Artlab Gallery
Maryse Larivière's solo exhibition B.I.B.L.E.: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth is already ending its brief run at Artlab Gallery early this week, but is soon to resurface at Galerie Maguire in...
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Ahmet Ogut at Blackwood Gallery | Adam David Brown at MKG127
I saw one of the best works of the year this weekend. I admit it's a bit early, at only three weeks into 2014, but I won't be surprised if Ahmet Ögüt's semi-self-explanatory This area is under 23 hour...
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Ben Reeves at Jessica Bradley | Porcelain: Breaking Tradition at Division...
I am not a big fan of winter and the white-out conditions of this past weekend were bringing me down, so the promise of colour made by jpegs on the Jessica Bradley Gallery website had me hopping into...
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Vessels at the Colborne Art Gallery
I like things. Stuff. Matter. So I naturally hearken toward the sculptural, which, in my world, absolutely includes clay. That inevitably leads to the form that continues to dominate ceramic discourse:...
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Paul Wong at Windsor Gallery
One of Canada's original new media artists, Paul Wong continues to produce an astonishing amount of work forty years into his career. The accessibility of video in the 1970s made him an early champion...
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[becoming] The Logic of Memory at Hamilton Artists Inc.
Nothing so obvious as medium or subject matter unites the three artists in [becoming] The Logic of Memory at Hamilton Artists Inc. Surrendering these shorthand connections works in the artists' favour...
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Jason Baerg at Urban Shaman
The importance of context in contemporary art is undeniable. We have always held an interest in the artist, but never has our comprehension, and at times enjoyment, of work been more reliant on the...
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Stage Set Stage at SBC Gallery
The SBC Gallery exhibition Stage Set Stage: On Identity and Institutionalism, curated by Barbara Clausen, is an engaging collection of performative works that mull over how individuals interact with...
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CounterIntelligence at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery | Hard Twist at the...
Perhaps it was paranoia on my part, but the more time I spent working my way through artist/curator Charles Stankievech's encyclopedic CounterIntelligence exhibition at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery,...
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Primer at Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Ottawa
Currently on view at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Primer serves as a refresher course in the work of four Ottawa artists, each exploring the elementary concerns of painting in distinct but converging ways....
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Peter von Tiesenhausen at the Esker Foundation
Ecologist and post-humanist Timothy Morton untangles the asymmetry wherein we conceive of ourselves as something other than human. Through coming into contact with what he calls "hyperobjects"– things...
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Misled by Nature at MOCCA | Stan Denniston at Olga Korper
If the life of an art critic can be said to be a series of disappointments (for why else would we go on?), then one of my more recent disappointments was searching out images from Tricia Middleton's...
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Gordon Monahan at the Ice Follies in North Bay
Through the spring, summer, and fall, the music of the large, shallow body of water that is Lake Nipissing on the city of North Bay's western shores is unmistakable and unceasing: a loud hiss of water...
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Mike Nelson at The Power Plant | Robert Burley at the Ryerson Image Centre
Mike Nelson is one of the more writerly artists working in the big leagues these days. His immersive installations set the stage for possible narratives that weave back and forth from reality to...
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No Linguistic Content at 221a
Contemporary forms of surveillance continue to bleed into our mundane actions and reactions in the form of internalized and external forms of presence and awareness. How does art and design, in the...
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Ragnar Kjartansson at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Outside of the country itself, Winnipeg is home to the largest population of Icelanders in the world, so it is no surprise that Ragnar Kjartansson's haunting installation, The End: Rocky Mountains has...
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Blueprints at Centre3 in Hamilton
The five artists collected by curator Chris Saba under the banner of Blueprints challenge common expectations of what printmaking can both accomplish and signify. Works that bend the printed multiple...
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Colleen Heslin and Jen Aitken at Battat Contemporary
I saw the exhibition of Colleen Heslin and Jen Aitken's work at Battat Contemporary the day after returning from a trip to Vancouver where I spent the better part of a week doing site visits of...
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Face Value at Gallery 1313 | Jason Wright at gallerywest
Being a child of the seventies and thus an undergrad of the late eighties/early nineties, I spent time in the trenches amongst those who struggle with the politics of identity. While I had yet to...
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