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
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.
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.
Simon Starling
Simon Starling’s exhibition “Cuttings (Supplement),” at The Power Plant, is part of an ongoing dialogue between artist and gallery that draws on several years of mutual support. (The Power Plant helped realize his 2005 show “Cuttings” at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel.)
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.