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
Libby Hague: A Step into Darkness
Libby Hague’s latest sculptural installation of prints and video has great charm and ingenuity. But as John Armstrong observes, the delight produced by Hague’s techniques cannot overcome the haunting darkness of the landscapes she portrays.
Elizabeth Peyton
When she emerged into the limelight in the mid-1990s, Elizabeth Peyton stood at the forefront, alongside artists such as John Currin, of a wave of artists returning to virtuosic figurative painting.
James Carl
Sometimes an exhibition is so surprising, challenging and ambitious that it inspires wonder and open-ended reflection followed by a most mundane question: “How did he do it?”
Daniel Olson
The hush reigning over the Expression gallery space during Daniel Olson’s recent exhibition was of a specific nature: less silent contemplation and more, it seemed, a kind of anticipatory held breath.
Trade Secrets
Whither the “public” in “public art gallery”? Where’s the exhibitionism in exhibition-making? If the broadly understood purpose of art can be summarized by that old E. M. Forster chestnut “only connect,” why then does there seem, at times, to be so much disconnect between art and its audiences?
Talia Shipman
In the last few years the photographers Hedi Slimane, Mario Testino and David LaChapelle, who are more often identified with fashion than with fine art, have mounted shows in major American and European galleries.
Christian Knudsen
This exhibition, curated by Benjamin Klein, offered an enticing cross-section of Christian Knudsen’s painting, sculpture, drawing and photography. A restless spirit, Knudsen gives the impression of a savant at work.
Jim Breukelman
Whether it’s topiary, taxidermy or shipbuilding, Jim Breukelman shines a warm, humane light on his photographic subjects.
Paul Butler
Few individuals move so effortlessly among the categories of artist, dealer and curator as Winnipeg’s Paul Butler.
Cliff Eyland
My first encounter with Cliff Eyland’s bibliophilic work was in 1990, in the last of a series of exhibitions at Dalhousie Art Gallery surveying contemporary Canadian drawing.