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
This is Paradise: Cameron Clubhouse
There’s a certain mystique that surrounds Toronto’s Cameron House, a storied past that forms the focus of “This is Paradise,” a summer exhibition on the bar’s 1980s art heyday. Bryne McLaughlin reviews, gauging the show’s balance between historical and here-and-now.
John Currin: Avant-Garde and Kitsch
The power of American art star John Currin’s paintings, currently on view in a mid-sized retrospective at Montreal’s DHC/ART, is manifold. Here, David Balzer reviews the exhibition, reflecting on Currin’s relationship to money, muses and married bliss.
Eldon Garnet: Mysteries of the Present
Toronto artist Eldon Garnet is known for a multifaceted practice in public art, publishing, writing and more. Here, in a review of his latest solo show, critic Gary Michael Dault argues that Garnet's also making his strongest gallery work ever.
Brad Phillips: Life, or Something Like It
Brad Phillips has often taken on literary subjects. Here, critic Aaron Peck traces the bookish threads in his recent Vancouver show, “Somebody Write Me,” which suggested autobiography as nothing more than a mode for representing a life.
Aleksandra Mir: Tower of Power
Art star commissions often offer big names, but little payoff. The pattern switches up, though, with UK-based artist Aleksandra Mir, who recently organized a playful tire-tower project north of Toronto. Here, David Balzer reviews the resulting Mercer Union show.
Ruth Cuthand and Nadia Myre: Contested Territories
A recent Calgary exhibition of works by Ruth Cuthand and Nadia Myre, co-presented by the city’s Indigeneity Artist Collective Society, brought together detailed beadwork and deft critique. Here, reviewer Tanya Harnett discusses its fresh staking of claims.
Beth Stuart
Battat Contemporary, Montreal
Un-home-ly
Oakville Galleries
Barbara Balfour
YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto
Roy Arden
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver