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
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.
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.
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.
Marie Lannoo
Goethe believed that colour is a meeting of darkness and light, a joining of opposites that together form our visual and emotional experience of colour. The mysteries of colour and light became henceforth the obsession of 19th-century artists and an inspiration for almost every modern movement in painting.
Diane Morin/Nelly-Eve Rajotte
The exhibition “Effleurements,” curated by Nicole Gingras, featured multimedia works by the Montreal artists Diane Morin and Nelly-Eve Rajotte, who both employ light, movement and sound in their art.
Evan Lee
In his exhibition “Drawn from Memory,” Evan Lee, in a departure from his forays into photographic experiments and still life, takes up subject matter drawn from the everyday. Whereas his previous work often played with double meanings in a somewhat surreal, paranoid-critical way, here Lee favours a direct representation of his subjects.