Reviews
On Charles Campbell and the Underrepresentation of Caribbean Art in Canada
The Jamaica-born, Victoria-based artist has shown at the Brooklyn Museum and Pérez Art Museum Miami—but only recently had his first Vancouver solo show
On Charles Campbell and the Underrepresentation of Caribbean Art in Canada
The Jamaica-born, Victoria-based artist has shown at the Brooklyn Museum and Pérez Art Museum Miami—but only recently had his first Vancouver solo show
Ruth Cuthand
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens
Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa
Marlene Creates: Of Words and Woods
Newfoundland artist Marlene Creates has explored our relationship to the land for more than 30 years. This summer, however, she tried a different, non-object-based tack, organizing poetry readings in the woods near her home. Robert Finley reviews.
Robin Arseneault & Paul Jackson: Taking Aim at the Art World
Hunting Blind, a new outdoor sculpture installation by Robin Arseneault and Paul Jackson at the Art Gallery of Alberta, proves an exception to the rules of public art. Moreover, notes Nancy Tousley, its design takes some shots at the art world itself.
Dexter Sinister: A Model Summer
Do our models for libraries, exhibitions, publishing and art education serve us adequately? This question came to the fore for Banff Centre staffer Kari Cwynar as she took in Dexter Sinister’s recent, and oft-polarizing, Walter Phillips Gallery show.
Ben Woolfitt: Getting Personal
Toronto’s Ben Woolfitt is known to many for the busy art-supply store he founded on Queen Street West. But he’s also an artist of some 40 years’ experience. Here, Ken Carpenter reviews Woolfitt’s current exhibition in Tokyo.
Berlinde De Bruyckere: Horse Latitudes
Old Montreal may be a destination for world-class contemporary art, but it’s also still known for kitschy horse carriages. For David Balzer, that local feature comes to mind when viewing Berlinde De Bruyckere’s DHC/ART show, which includes the equine as medium.
Lyla Rye: A Platform for Ideas
Lyla Rye’s newest work is a lyrical homage to a renovated foundry, its “stage” a sleek, low platform that moves softly back and forth as viewers step on it. Tess Edmonson reviews, finding industrial materials made elegant.
Robert Houle: Honouring Ojibwa History
Paris/Ojibwa is artist Robert Houle’s response to the history of a group of First Nations dancers who travelled to France in the 1840s as part of George Catlin’s “Indian Museum.” Leanne Simpson reviews, finding a powerful homage.
Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome: Betting on a Blockbuster
Among the most perennially fresh of the old masters, Caravaggio is the kind of artist whose most mundane works still possess a charge. But can the same be said for all exhibitions about him? David Balzer assesses the National Gallery’s big summer show.