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John Armstrong

Do You Love Me?: Pet Sounds

Do You Love Me?: Pet Sounds

The relationship between affection, companionship and pets was the focus of an enjoyable group show at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery this summer. In review, John Armstrong notes the work provided insights about the artists as much as their animals.

CAFKA 2009: Truth and Consequences

CAFKA 2009: Truth and Consequences

September saw the seventh edition of the CAFKA art and performance festival in southwestern Ontario. As John Armstrong observes, the festival, growing in scope at each outing, bests Nuit Blanche and other big-city fests on some points.

Libby Hague: A Step into Darkness

Libby Hague: A Step into Darkness

Libby Hague’s latest sculptural installation of prints and video has great charm and ingenuity. But as John Armstrong observes, the delight produced by Hague’s techniques cannot overcome the haunting darkness of the landscapes she portrays.

Cliff Eyland

Cliff Eyland

My first encounter with Cliff Eyland’s bibliophilic work was in 1990, in the last of a series of exhibitions at Dalhousie Art Gallery surveying contemporary Canadian drawing.

Drifting, Slowly: Four Artists Deep in Labour

Drifting, Slowly: Four Artists Deep in Labour

In “Drifting, Slowly,” four artists use labour-intensive techniques to tranform the bric-a-brac of everyday life into art: an aluminium-foil chain, a grid of drawings, an endlessly variable digital archive. The results speak to the way certain kinds of matter and history persist, whether we expect it or not.