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
Robert Mangold
Robert Mangold has spent much of his career exploring variations of a formal theme: the interplay of line, frame and colour. This Albright-Knox show features four recent series of paintings and a group of studies for a public work, with emphasis on the two most recent painting series, Column Structures and Ring Images.
Split + Splice
In 2009, I exhibited my video What Remains at the University of Copenhagen’s medical museum. While there, I took the time to roam through an exhibition entitled “Split + Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine,” which had been organized by the Canadian artist, curator and academic Martha Fleming along with four post-doctoral researchers at the museum.
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.
Marina Abramović: Fall on Your Knees
On a recent trip to New York, artist Janieta Eyre visited the Whitney, the Guggenheim and Chelsea galleries, with largely disappointing results. But the Marina Abramović survey at MOMA restored Eyre's faith in art and its possibilities.
Julie Andreyev: I Tweet, Therefore I Am
Julie Andreyev’s project for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad engaged issues around communication, technology and animal experience. As Heidi May reports, Andreyev successfully used real-time Twitter posts to create an on-site projection that was both sensory and studious.
Katie Bethune-Leamen: Public Images Limited
Mashing up 1980s pop bands, early polar explorers and WW1-era ships, Katie Bethune-Leamen’s recent show referenced many influences. Here, critic Lee Henderson observes that Bethune-Leamen’s approach called art itself into question.
Brendan Tang: From Manga to Ming
In Brendan Tang’s ceramic artworks, it seems as if ancient Chinese porcelains battle futuristic robotic prosthetics. Meditating on his recent show in Lethbridge, writer Anne Dymond finds Tang’s hybrids funny, beautiful and ever so tempting.
Kelly Jazvac: Vinyl Virtuoso
Noting that Kelly Jazvac’s energy, humour and materials are reminiscent of Robert Rauschenberg’s famed Gluts series, writer and curator Vanessa Nicholas reviews Jazvac’s recent Toronto exhibition of vinyl sculpture.
Corin Sworn: Projecting the Past
This spring, the biannual Glasgow International Festival filled one of Scotland’s biggest cities with art by global and local luminaries. As Alhena Katsof writes, Corin Sworn’s exhibition on reading, projection and nostalgia was a definite highlight.