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The Travelling Light at The New Gallery
It may seem unlikely, but throughout the passing decades of board, staff and mandate changes, artist-run centres nevertheless maintain their own "flavours" of exhibition or programming styles. For...
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Heather Goodchild & Jerome Havre at the Textile Museum | Andrew Rucklidge...
The Textile Museum is one of the stranger places to see art in the city. Phenomenologically, at least. It's located somewhere within the base of a condo tower hidden away on a side street near a...
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Josee Debeau at AXENEO7 in Ottawa
L'Occupation des sols is a text by the French writer Jean Echenoz, as well as the title of an ongoing project initiated by Jonathan Demers at AXENÉO7 in Gatineau, just across the river from Ottawa. (It...
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Frank Livingston at Zsa Zsa West
Much has been written about the significance, both figuratively and theoretically, of the dot in art. Pointillism, championed by such greats as Pissarro and Seurat, used dots to convey a new way of...
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Barn Swallows at Artspeak
One of the most prevalent species of the globe-spanning swallow, the barn swallow has adapted and thrived by using human-made structures to nest and breed in, thus growing in number with human...
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Space Fictions at A Space | Edward Maloney at Pierre-Francois Ouelette Art...
For a week in which the US and Russia made threats and held the whole world in suspense as they battled over a previously insignificant piece of the world that was suddenly centre stage in the theatre...
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Sebastien Cliche at articule | Mathieu Cardin at Parisian Laundry
While checking out a couple recent exhibitions in Montreal, I couldn't help but notice the connection between two works I had seen: Sébastien Cliche's Self Control Room at articule and Mathieu Cardin's...
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John W. Ford & Francois Dallegret at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton
The title of John W. Ford's sculptural trilogy at the McMaster Museum of Art points to the dissonance between his work's outward appearance and the chaos it contains. The glass cases of House not a...
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Sylvia Safdie at Prefix ICA | Olia Mishchenko at Oakville Galleries
Due to the recent launch of his newest magnum opus, I've been on a bit of a Matthew Barney kick of late. This seems to happen every ten years or so and I, like most of the art world, get sucked back...
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Roberta Smith at the University of Guelph
Blunt. Basic. Concise. Unencumbered. Impervious. Unsentimental. Sensible. Compressed. Instructive. These are a few words to describe Roberta Smith's recent Shenkman Lecture at the University of Guelph...
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Dorothy Caldwell at the Art Gallery of Peterborough
The most fecund places are those that are neither/nor, and Dorothy Caldwell knows this. Life thrives along the edges – the littoral regions where sea meets land, or along the cleaving edge where forest...
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Sharon Hayes at the Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa
Through her exhibition Loudspeakers and Other Forms of Listening at the Carleton University Art Gallery, the American artist Sharon Hayes does not simply re-enact the political past but re-fashions it...
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Sarah Anne Johnson at Stephen Bulger | Sayeh Sarfaraz at InterAccess
I tend to avoid reading other people's reviews before I've written my own, but given the nature of Sarah Anne Johnson's subject matter in her current exhibition at Stephen Bulger, I couldn't help but...
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Stan Douglas at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage and Presentation House
Beginning with Vancouver's archival images of Hogan's Alley and the Hotel Vancouver, two sites of a demolished and largely suppressed history within the city's ongoing penchant for speculative...
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navigation(s): the spaces that form us at Truck
Why differentiate student work from professional work? It presumes that learning institutions somehow regulate or determine the creative process within them and that art must be learned. I would prefer...
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Sky Glabush at MKG127 | Melanie Rocan at Paul Petro
I no longer know what to expect when I visit a Sky Glabush exhibition. Ten years ago, when I first stumbled onto his work, I discovered paintings of ghostly suburban homes that made the most of the...
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Raymond Boisjoly at Platform
A visit with writer Jeanne Randolph was the catalyst for how I would undertake reviewing Raymond Boisjoly's complex exhibition currently at Platform. Downsizing her Scriptorium, she generously...
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Border Cultures at the Art Gallery of Windsor
My single visit to Border Cultures: Part Two (work, labour), curated by Srimoyee Mitra at the Art Gallery of Windsor, was definitely not enough to get a larger sense of this sprawling group exhibition....
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Jeremy Hof at Jessica Bradley | Nestor Kruger & Sally Spath at Katzmen...
It wasn't so long ago that 401 Richmond was the centre of the universe for Toronto's art community and a trip to the galleries on Morrow felt like a journey to the ends of the earth. Things have...
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Graeme Patterson at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
When I heard that Graeme Patterson was exhibiting a new body of work at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, I wasn’t sure of what to expect. Would it stand up to the lasting impact that Patterson’s first...
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