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
Yann Pocreau
Yann Pocreau is interested in architecture’s latent content, narrative potential and dormant histories. He envisions his work as a dialogue with the nature of the spaces he photographs.
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.
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.
Sorel Cohen
Sorel Cohen’s recent exhibition returns to a subject she explored in her 2003 show at the Centre culturel canadien in Paris: the psychoanalyst’s couch.
everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
The only thing the curator Juan Gaitán asked of the artists contributing to “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” was not to consider the gallery “insufficient.”
Québec Triennial
The new Québec Triennial occupies the entire Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and reaches across differences in medium, language, age and gender to get at the strongest aesthetic currents in the province. And currently, as a province, we look rather like Duchamp on crack.
Andrew Rucklidge
Most abstract expressionists are landscape painters, and this affiliation is not as restrictive or tricky as many of the former would have us believe. The Toronto artist Andrew Rucklidge embraces both designations.