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
Tony Romano and Tyler Brett: Carchitecture, and Cautionary Ingenuity
If houses are blueprints for living, the shelters in Tony Romano and Tyler Brett’s recent art propose a radical new lifestyle with a porousness between inside and outside, stability and mobility, apocalypse and utopia.
Marcus Bowcott: Seeing at Sea
Marcus Bowcott’s contemporary seascapes demonstrate an acumen for both politics and painting. The perception required for both involves skill in focusing the eye and the mind, a focus well demonstrated in Bowcott’s unnerving works.
Stan Douglas: Humor, Irony and the Law
Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas’s recent work at New York’s David Zwirner examines the rules, laws and arbitrary protocols that propel the fates of historical and contemporary subjects. The result represents a significant new artistic shift.
Roe Ethridge
Roe Ethridge is an easy artist to misread or misunderstand. His images are wildly diverse in subject and vary in technique. His straightforward photographs are connected in obscure, labyrinthine ways, which can be confusing, but they reward sustained looking.
Peter Flemming
Each piece in “Lazymode,” an exhibition of new and older works by the folk-machine artist Peter Flemming, was activated by solar power—a new turn for his practice.
The 1930s: The Making of “The New Man”
The 1930s: The Making of ‘The New Man’” is a stark reminder of how easily huge numbers of human beings can be convinced to slaughter and maim one another, how weak and hateful we can be, how susceptible to promises of salvation and self-aggrandizement, how quick to forget atrocities.
Jamie Tolagson
Jamie Tolagson’s exhibition at Jeffrey Boone Gallery in Vancouver’s Gastown came as something of a surprise.
Laurel Smith
Laurel Smith’s paintings question excess, finding parallels between our contemporary society of overabundance and the 18th-century rococo style.
Dave Dyment
As a teenager, I often listened to a stereophonic-effects record whose first words were “This is a journey into sound.”
Peter Kingstone
Peter Kingstone’s latest project finesses the Toronto artist’s long-standing fascination with the place where autobiographical fact ends and narrative fiction begins.