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
David Merritt: Roping Viewers In
David Merritt is having a quartet of related exhibitions in southern Ontario this year. In his review of the project’s first iteration, “shim,” Sky Glabush marvels at Merritt’s ability to meander between objective clarity and deferred, slippery potential.
Posing Beauty in African American Culture: Colour Fields
Hamilton is the only Canadian stop for a new exhibition, curated by NYU photo chair Deborah Willis, that interrogates notions of beauty and blackness. As reviewer Sally Frater observes, Willis’ approach provides antidotes to some longstanding art conundrums.
Vancouver Report: The Remains of the Olympiad
Love it or hate it, the 2010 Olympics had an inescapably surreal quality in its final days. Here, in the last of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan captures the moods and madness of the games’ end and muses on the potential hangover to come.
Tracey Moffatt
Virulent exchanges; verbal tango; exotic scenes with coconuts, leis, grass skirts and palm trees...
Steve Higgins
Steve Higgins is a man of the city; Ihor Holubizky, curator of this exhibition, calls him an astute “observer/flâneur.”
Tricia Middleton
The title of Tricia Middleton’s installation at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls.
The Automatiste Revolution
Françoise Sullivan succinctly summed up Quebec’s mid-20th-century revolution in the arts as follows...
Lois Andison
The world that we are confronted with on a daily basis is a complex, multi-layered chaos that is continually flexing and moving.
Francine Savard
The 63 works on display in Francine Savard’s mid-career retrospective, curated by Lesley Johnstone, express intellectual and philosophical concepts with refined, graphic precision.
Playing Homage
In recent years, re-enactment, in various guises, has become rich terrain for artists and exhibition-makers alike.