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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”
Warhola: A Horror Film
The prosthesis was a telltale sign. We all had one; forty extras in the first room at least. Without asking, we were each given one for free. Even before we reached the admission desk, it was a necessary interface.
The Surface of Space
In September of 2001, I left Vancouver to accept a teaching job at the University of Waterloo. One circumstance of the move has been an unexpected gift to me as an artist, namely the fact that the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics arrived in Waterloo just before I did.
Shary Boyle: Porcelain Dreams and Nightmares
The multi-dimensional Toronto artist Shary Boyle
Karin Davie: From a Different Place
The exuberant abstraction of the Canadian-born artist Karin Davie took me by surprise last spring in Buffalo, where I was intent on other errands.
States of Beam: Remembering Carl Beam
Before his passing a year ago, Carl Beam was honoured with a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for his innovative work and persistent will, both of which contributed to the reclaiming of space for Aboriginal artists within the mainstream of contemporary Canadian art practice.
BGL: Through the Looking Glass
Walking through the newly designer entrance of Optica in Montreal last April, I see four large-scale laminated photographs by the Quebec City trio BGL.
Antwerp Diary
R. M. Vaughan heads to Europe in search of a new context for reading Vancouver's photo-based art Summer 2006
Alpha Girl: Angela Grossmann’s Portrait Toughs
A trio of adolescent girls in short shorts and sneakers huddle over one of their peers, who is looking up at them with an indiscernible expression: fear, perhaps, and the unquenchable desire for acceptance.
David Rokeby: Nervous Systems
David Rokeby is a star of international new-media art. Why is he not more widely known? Summer 2005
Postmark Berlin
Canadian artists are finding a home in Germany's capital city Spring 2006