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Andrew Rucklidge

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

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

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

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.

Close to You: Crafty Pop Culture

Close to You: Crafty Pop Culture

Named after The Carpenters’ 1970 saccharine-sweet song of the same name, “Close to You” provides a survey of projects that translate pop culture icons into personalized and highly intimate craft objects in the domestic sphere.

Mnemonic Devices: The Persistence of Memory

Mnemonic Devices: The Persistence of Memory

Remembering is a decidedly melancholy activity in “Mnemonic Devices,” the current exhibition at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Still, the historical and personal content of its individual works makes for a deeply affecting—and memorable—show.

Kim Ondaatje: Factory and Fiction

Kim Ondaatje: Factory and Fiction

Though created over 30 years ago, the works in “Kim Ondaatje: Paintings 1950–1975” still speak to current concerns. Moreover, shimmering alternately with the heat of summer and the chilling winter wind, they’re poignant documents of the Canadian landscape.

Yves Saint Laurent: An Art Made for the Body

Yves Saint Laurent: An Art Made for the Body

Though it’s taken on an elegiac quality since Yves Saint Laurent’s unexpected passing, the YSL retrospective in Montreal feels enjoyable and emotional. After all, clothing is art made for the body, and this show surveys 40 years of the best.

Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion

Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion

In this review of Belmore's mid-career retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery from summer 2008, Gabrielle Moser highlights enduring themes in the Anishinaabe artist’s work

Not Quite How I Remember It: Rapid Memory Gloss

Not Quite How I Remember It: Rapid Memory Gloss

The need to examine the past—personal and otherwise—to make sense of the present is a strong, if not innate, human quality. This tendency gets a fair, though sometimes uneven, treatment in the Power Plant’s summer exhibition.