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
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.
Sylvia Ziemann: Disaster Dioramas
Post-apocalyptic landscapes and inventive survival solutions come together in “Possible Worlds,” Sylvia Ziemann’s latest exhibition currently on view at the Dunlop Art Gallery. As Amy Fung reports, the Regina artist’s models for imagined future dwellings demonstrate a unique Prairies approach that mixes pessimism and determination.
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Ship O’ Fools
At this year’s Luminato festival, the awarding-winning Canadian duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller were a highlight of the visual arts lineup. Reflecting on their newly commissioned installation, Ship O’ Fools, critic David Balzer finds the work rich in compelling paradoxes.
Janet Jones: Viva Las Vegas
Painting straddles two worlds: the external one of objects and the interior one of impressions. As Yvonne Lammerich writes, the possibilities between were well explored in Janet Jones’ recent show, which used Las Vegas as a surprising starting point.
The Biennale of Sydney: Songs of Survival
The 17th Biennale of Sydney launched in May with some bold claims about art. As curator Candice Hopkins writes, the exhibition goes far—if not always far enough—to meet its aims. At its best, it frames aboriginal artists (Canadian Beau Dick included) with the respect their work deserves alongside big names like Louise Bourgeois and Isaac Julien.
Tania Bruguera
Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art
Micah Lexier
Micah Lexier’s I AM THE COIN fills the BMO Project Room’s main wall with a grid of 20,000 custom-minted coins. It’s an impressive sight: light shimmers over the coins, the reflections shifting as you move around, and little circles of light are scattered throughout the room.
Scott Rogers
Scott Rogers pays homage to Mel Bochner’s Measurement Room (1969), with his own work, Wireframe: an installation that demarcates the physical dimensions of Stride Gallery, this time as photoluminescent outlines.
Geoffrey Farmer
What would time’s face look like if it had one? A literal example might be an analog clock; a more symbolic one might be hoary-bearded Father Time. “The Surgeon and the Photographer,” Geoffrey Farmer’s latest exhibition at Catriona Jeffries, gives us neither.
Krista Buecking
“Under the paving stones the beach!” So goes the slogan from Paris in May 1968: dismantle civilization and you will find paradise. For her show at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Krista Buecking looks at the brick as a trope of cultural upheaval, in the process suggesting a way to understand the political uncertainties of our time.