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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”
Angela Carlsen: Still Half-lifes
In 2006 and 2007, artist Angela Carlsen traversed the country roads of rural Nova Scotia to photograph the interiors of dilapidated structures from homesteads to roundhouses to churches. The results are a poignantly haunting record of lives lived and left behind.
Kristi Malakoff: Swarm Theory
Is the whole more than the sum of its parts? In nature, at least, the swarm—or swarm intelligence—often wins out. In her latest exhibition, artist Kristi Malakoff plays off these behaviours (and human fears of them) in an installation of over 20,000 honeybee images.
Painting in Tongues
Ben Reeves’s deceptively traditional paintings are built on a meticulously realized brush-stroke conceptualism
Adad Hannah: Mirrors that Conceal
In art historical traditions, mirrors add a layered complexity to two-dimensional pictorial space; for conceptual art, the mirror is also a symbol of power. Adad Hannah’s latest work, shot at Madrid’s Museo del Prado, draws on both traditions.
Claude-Philippe Benoit: Working from the Margins
The Quebec photographer Claude-Philippe Benoit makes art from the discovery and interpretation of empty spaces. In his latest series, Société de ville, he turns his camera on the fringe urban spaces of Montreal.
Ron Terada: Urbanity and Unease
Whether he’s positioning highway signage in gallery spaces or organizing an art magazine consisting solely of advertisements, Vancouver artist Ron Terada is well known for wryly manipulating symbols of authority. His latest gallery show focuses specifically on symbols of excess—from geisha girls to Todd Bertuzzi.
Kelly Mark: White Cube, White Couch
If you have ever wondered what it might take to watch 170 films and television programs in one sitting, grab a couch seat and get ready for a 2-hour onslaught of condensed and commercial-free viewing in Kelly Mark’s video installation REM.
Geoffrey James: The Landscape and the Camera
As an eloquent interpreter of landscape since the 1970s, Toronto’s Geoffrey James has taken photographs of everything from historical gardens to contemporary asbestos mines. Now, “Utopia/Dystopia” at the National Gallery presents more than 80 of his works in a career-long survey.
Carlos and Jason Sanchez: Buried Alive and Other Obsessions
In their current Toronto exhibition, the Sanchez brothers continue their photographic examination of dark mass media obsessions. They even use an actual media figure—JonBenet Ramsey’s self-proclaimed killer, John Mark Karr—as a model, and bring news-fodder natural disasters home with a disturbing installation.
Matilda Aslizadeh: Child Soldiers, Born and Made
The exhibition “Hero of Our Time” by Vancouver artist Matilda Aslizadeh plays out the fictional story of a child soldier through documentary and myth, prompting viewers to reconsider the hard-hitting truths of war from other points of view.