Karin Bubaš
An air of mystery enveloped the images in Karin Bubaš’s exhibition “Colour Field,” which appeared at Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver in the summer of 2011. In this review from our Winter 2012 issue, Rachel Rosenfield Lafo considers how Bubaš’s pictures provide an interplay between painting and photography.
Frances Stark: Not Just Idle Chat
Frances Stark’s animation My Best Thing, based on conversations in online sex chatrooms, premiered to acclaim at 2011’s Venice Biennale. Rachel Rosenfield Lafo reviews its current Vancouver showing, finding depth amid the Web’s superficialities.
Yedda Morrison: Helping Hand
In her recent solo show at Vancouver’s Republic Gallery, artist Yedda Morrison debuted a unique series of photographs of artists creating copies of historical paintings. Critic Rachel Rosenfield Lafo reports that Morrison’s work puts a fresh spin on issues of originality, ownership and reproduction.