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
Francine Savard
On late-winter afternoons, daylight casts a shadowy industrial grid across the white walls and mottled cement floor of Diaz Contemporary’s main space.
Neil Wedman
Neil Wedman’s exhibition “Untitled Flying Saucer Monochromes,” curated by Steven Tong, consists of five elegant, pearl-grey monochrome paintings and a smart accompanying essay by Jessie Caryl.
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.
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.