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Ursula Mayer at the Audain Gallery
Over the past year there have been several single channel works occupying the Audain Gallery at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Memorably there was Berlin-based Hito Steyerl's Adorno's Grey...
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Electronic Sound in a Shifting Landscape at Dazibao
With a new baby in the house, I couldn’t manage to escape on holiday this summer, but this past weekend, at Dazibao artist-run centre, I was offered the opportunity to imaginatively revisit a faraway...
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Taking [a] part at Mercer Union | View Point Geon at Narwhal Contemporary
Mercer Union deals with the challenge of the summer group show this summer by staging a five-part cycle of small groups shows within a growing group show that culminates at the end of this week with...
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Ursula Johnson at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
A soft grey light illuminates a dozen plinths throughout the Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery. They are tall, narrow, and sombre. On each plinth is a vitrine, carved on each side of the glass with...
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Micah Lexier at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
If “conceptual” art has become everyday shorthand for the kind of work that people “just don’t get” or just can’t be bothered with, the term has become something of a disclaimer among artists...
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Berenicci Hershorn at Hamilton Artists Inc.
Without the benefit of witnessing the performance that motivated its becoming, Berenicci Hershorn’s HERE at Hamilton Artists Inc. is a laboratory for rooting into the notion of performance’s afterlife....
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First The Pleasure, Then The Thesis at Clint Roenish | Paul Kajander &...
The otherwise unassuming St. Helen’s Avenue, heretofore known for the Value Village and strip club at its northern tip, has in short shrift become Toronto’s newest gallery district. Heading down from...
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Great Women Animators at the Quickdraw Animation Society
The early history of the art of animation is different from most other art disciplines in that women animators are fairly well acknowledged. Perhaps it is because animation emerged relatively later...
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Penelope Stewart at the Koffler Gallery | Burden of Proof at Lonsdale Gallery
Some exhibitions get metaphorically under my skin, but Penelope Stewart’s immersive installation at the Koffler Gallery literally entered my body. This physical absorption hits you as soon as you step...
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Claiming Space at the Museum of Anthropology
A vast exhibition featuring close to thirty young artists from across North America, New Zealand, and Norway, Claiming Space, in exploring themes of art and decolonization, functions as both a show and...
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WE WON'T COMPETE at the Art Gallery of Windsor
WE WON’T COMPETE, an exhibition of works from the collections of both the Feminist Art Gallery (FAG) and the Art Gallery of Windsor, is Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue’s second time using FAG’s...
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Les Rassembleurs at MKG127 | Softening the Corners at Birch Contemporary
I had been mulling over a theory of group exhibitions that compares them to social gatherings and then, lo and behold, MKG127 puts on a show that fits my model to a T. Curated by artist/party host...
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The Creative Placemaking Challenge
With the Humidex lurching towards forty, Friday was the perfect day to spend an afternoon exploring the Exchange District’s shaded tangle of side streets and covered alleys. Co-organized by Urban Idea...
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Viewfinders at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa
Has the rise of the digital era produced such a glut of photographs as to render the image demeaned, diminished – depleted, even? We’re awash in a sea of selfies. The instant gratification (or...
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Bogdan Cheta at Stride Gallery
Upon visiting Bogdan Cheta's residency in Stride's project room (in partnership with the M:ST Performative Art Festival), a staff member gave me an Ikea-brand ziplock bag containing pink and green...
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Jenn E. Norton at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
In stark contrast to the light-soaked canvases dominating the Art Gallery of Hamilton for its sprawling retrospective of William Blair Bruce, entering the underworld of Jenn E. Norton’s latest video...
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Homecoming at Division Gallery | I was here at p|m Gallery
Any one piece, no matter how small, by David Altmejd provides more than enough eye candy to justify a trip to see an exhibition. The two heads he has on display at Division Gallery– though one is...
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Land Reform(ed) at Ajagemo in Ottawa
Land Reform(ed) at Âjagemô invites the viewer to re-examine notions of the Canadian landscape in contemporary art. The exhibition is the first to be installed in the new gallery at the recently...
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Geoffrey Farmer & Matthew Barney at the AGO | Celia Neubauer at General...
The life of an art critic is one filled with regret, guilt, and reward. I felt all three last week on the occasion of my visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario. I regretted that I had, by leaving it so...
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Catherine Beck & Jeffrey Cowling at the Mary E. Black Gallery
Our relationship to death and mourning is explored in Presence of Absence, the collaborative exhibition of fine craft by Catherine Beck and Jeffrey Cowling currently on view at the Mary E. Black...
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