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In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
Jed Lind: Starlight and Water
Los Angeles artist Jed Lind is inspired by everything from Buckminster Fuller’s utopian legacy to the provisional architecture of coastal societies. In this brief video, Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes offers his thoughts on Lind’s current solo show in Toronto.
Jeff Wall: Hometown Hero
Recently, the Vancouver Art Gallery amassed the world’s largest public collection of Jeff Wall’s photo-based art. Now they’re sharing it with visitors in the institution’s first solo exhibition for Wall in nearly 20 years. Canadian Art Online has the images.
Will Gorlitz: As the World Turns
In this brief video, Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes looks at veteran figurative painter Will Gorlitz’s new works, which range from images of trees askew to zoo animals in fields of snow. Together, these make for an ambitious and topical show.
Valérie Blass, David Humphrey and Adrienne Spier: Shape Shifters and Meaning Grifters
As dropping fall temperatures strip trees of their leaves and turn passersby into amorphous shapes bundled in coats and scarves, Montreal’s Parisian Laundry presents three artists who cleverly obscure familiar objects with paint, plastic and form.
Jubal Brown: Shock and Blah
In his latest video, artist Jubal Brown shows there’s nothing more shocking, or more banal, than war’s prevalence in our culture. As always, he runs a risk of undermining the art with his own visual aggression. But at least he doesn’t just change the channel.
David Claerbout: The Long Goodbye
Antwerp-based artist David Claerbout’s first solo exhibition in Canada plays with our sense of time and duration, of beginning and ending. The result is a thoughtful meditation on the way the hours pass us by, whether we realize it or not.
Photopolis and Nocturne: Where Darkrooms Meet White Nights
Though the west coast might be photoconceptualist central, the east coast has its own photo heroes. At no time is this more apparent than during Photopolis, Halifax’s biennial festival of the photo arts. This year an overlapping event further ups the ante—Nocturne, Halifax’s first crack at the increasingly popular Nuit Blanche style of arts festival, happens October 18.
Send and Receive: Sounding the Depths
Sound art’s institutional acceptance is on an upswing from MoMA to Tate Modern. But Winnipeg’s 10th Send and Receive sound art festival, kicking off this week, continues to find the genre’s exciting, experimental, expect-the-unexpected fringe.
John Eisler Video: Immersive Painting
Does John Eisler’s new work present “Jackson Pollock in three dimensions”? Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes explores this idea in a brief video look at Eisler’s current show at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
Janice Kerbel: Spectacular Promises, and Subtle Gambles
London-based artist Janice Kerbel is best known for her meticulously researched conceptual projects that open up dangerous possibilities for the viewer. In her latest show, even uninitiated viewers may become unknowing bystanders to deception.