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
François Lacasse
The Montreal artist François Lacasse is nestled in one of those rare sweet spots for a painter: where the technical means and the aesthetic end are the same, leaving the viewer sometimes wondering whether he is looking at art or craft.
Pulp Fiction
A review of "Pulp Fiction," a group exhibition at Museum London, from the Winter 2008 issue of Canadian Art magazine.
Sophie Calle
For 30 years the Paris-based artist Sophie Calle has been preoccupied with boundaries—especially those between private and public.
theanyspacewhatever: Collapsing Institutional Spaces, or Having Fun Trying
Relational aesthetics is an ever-more-popular aspect of art festivals and shows across Canada. Now the trend is given international perspective in “theanyspacewhatever,” a wacky assemblage of sculpture, installation and video at New York’s Guggenheim.
Jean-Paul Jérôme in Review: Hard-Edge Heaven
Montrealer Jean-Paul Jérôme was a reclusive, solitary artist, often overshadowed on the scene by his brasher, younger counterparts. But as a recent exhibition showed, his mastery of shape and colour deserves renewed recognition.
James Lahey in Review: Imperfect History
James Lahey's skull paintings offer a meditation on life and death, but may also draw the viewer into an obsessive questioning. At his spring 2008 show in London, phrases inscribed into steel reinforced the philosophical effect.
The Big Gift in Review: Homefront Helpfulness
Jeff Spalding has kickstarted an art-appreciation movement in Calgary with “The Big Gift” and its display of hundreds of recent donations. At a time when the federal government has axed millions of dollars from the arts, it’s a great example of homefront support.
Terence Koh
“Is this man the next Warhol?” screamed the headline on the cover of the German art magazine Monopol. It was accompanied by a photograph of the New York–based Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh.
Kristan Horton
In April 2008, Kristan Horton presented his first solo exhibition in New York, at the downtown gallery White Columns.
Shirley Wiitasalo
Many would agree that the evolution of colour-field painting was partly indebted to the invention of acrylic paint.