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
Sophie Calle
For 30 years the Paris-based artist Sophie Calle has been preoccupied with boundaries—especially those between private and public.
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.
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.
Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins
Wha Happened?”—finally, an exhibition that questioned the very essence of exhibition-making, a double entendre of exposure intentionally produced by artists in an artist-run centre.
Patrick Bernatchez
A man sits alone in his car at night, eating a hamburger and then casually smoking a cigarette as the camera slowly and gracefully travels around the vehicle.
Martin Golland
For magicians and illusionists, mentalism refers to a type of trick that relies on the power of suggestion.