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In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
Isabelle Hayeur: Model Homes
Despite the popular romantic notions of rural Canadian landscapes as uncharted territory, it’s hard to shake the desire for a wilderness that has escaped our urbanizing instincts. As Isabelle Hayeur’s “Maisons Modèles/Model Homes” exhibition makes clear, even rural communities have become the setting for suburban sprawl.
Jean-Paul Jérôme: Plastic Fantastic
While the Automatistes tend to take the spotlight position in Canadian painting history, a lesser-known group of their Montreal-based contemporaries was equally poised at the vanguard of abstract painting. Jean-Paul Jérôme was one of these Plasticiens, who believed shape led to transcendental meaning.
The Haunting
Marcel Dzama brings history and politics into his three-dimensional fantasy worlds in a major New York show
Etienne Zack’s Object World
The extravagantly crowded surreal scenarios of the up-and-coming painter Etienne Zack
Enduring Messaging: Are Microcommunications an Art Form?
The 21st century is awash with messaging. Instant messaging, text messaging, voice messaging, email and social-networking profiles with digital photos and video galore…
Roy Arden: New World Order
The human impulse to organize, order and collect informs a new body of work by Vancouver-based artist Roy Arden. Drawing from a personal collection of more than 28,000 images from the Internet, his digital collages make clever interventions into the logic of the archive.
Mitchell Wiebe: Creature Feature
Dancing bears, toy dogs and other eccentric creature characters whirl above a kaleidoscope of candy colours in Halifax artist Mitchell Wiebe’s latest paintings. It’s not all fun and games though: these fantastic daydreams are mere decoys for an undertone of darker fables.
Bill Burns and Adriana Kuiper: Bird Songs and Storm Shelters
The controlled environments of a zoo or natural history museum might be the nearest most urbanites get to wildlife. Artist Bill Burns offers a conceptual alternative with his Bird Radio project, running alongside Adriana Kuiper’s sheltering Over-neath, at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
Tony Romano: An Affair to Remember
In matters of the heart, one might not first think of pornography. But as Toronto artist Tony Romano’s film and text installation The Last Act proves, romance can be found in the most unlikely places.
Samuel Roy-Bois and Max Dean: Built to Fall
Comparisons between the fantastic promise and ultimate collapse of Buckminster Fuller’s iconic geodesic geometry abound in a new large-scale installation by Samuel Roy-Bois, featured in tandem with Max Dean’s equally existential Robotic Chair at the Contemporary Art Gallery.