It is difficult to make an adequate political statement through the medium of art, and more so if it first passes through the lens of deconstruction. David Khang’s videos, installation and…
One of the central assumptions in Western culture is the concept of identity and individualism. We have built legal edifices to individual human rights, entrenching the idea of the self. The Mute…
This summer, Douglas Walker’s adaptable travelling installation Other Worlds (2011) swept in from Halifax to submerge the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in a sea of blue and white. Running from floor
The mythology of General Idea hovered in a haze around the top floors of the Art Gallery of Ontario throughout “Haute Culture: General Idea, A Retrospective 1969–1994.” In this review from our
The first Canadian solo exhibition for Berlin-based artist Stefanie Gutheil recently opened at Angell Gallery in Toronto. Ashley Johnson reviews, finding a mass of comic and serious political…
Co-curated by acclaimed artist Robert Gober, “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” received high praise during an LA stop last fall. Now, with the show on at Buffalo’s…
The world that we are confronted with on a daily basis is a complex, multi-layered chaos that is continually flexing and moving.
This fall, a Toronto exhibition matched contemporary film animators with members of the Painters Eleven like Walter Yarwood and William Ronald. As Ashley Johnson reports, the result was an engaging…
The anthropologist Victor Turner defined the word liminality as “betwixt and between.” It is a transitional state that involves moving between two existential planes; normal restraints on…
Simon Starling’s exhibition “Cuttings (Supplement),” at The Power Plant, is part of an ongoing dialogue between artist and gallery that draws on several years of mutual support. (The Power…