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
Krista Buecking
“Under the paving stones the beach!” So goes the slogan from Paris in May 1968: dismantle civilization and you will find paradise. For her show at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Krista Buecking looks at the brick as a trope of cultural upheaval, in the process suggesting a way to understand the political uncertainties of our time.
Jason de Haan
Glittering, seductive and mystical: crystals and mirrors are the loci of Jason de Haan’s remarkably focused freshman exhibition with Toronto’s Clint Roenisch.
David Armstrong Six
David Armstrong Six’s anti–form fit installation The Dry Salvages took over Parisian Laundry’s idiosyncratic back gallery, which is known as the Bunker— a raw, windowless concrete box accessed via a subterranean passageway.
Robert Mangold
Robert Mangold has spent much of his career exploring variations of a formal theme: the interplay of line, frame and colour. This Albright-Knox show features four recent series of paintings and a group of studies for a public work, with emphasis on the two most recent painting series, Column Structures and Ring Images.
Marina Abramović: Fall on Your Knees
On a recent trip to New York, artist Janieta Eyre visited the Whitney, the Guggenheim and Chelsea galleries, with largely disappointing results. But the Marina Abramović survey at MOMA restored Eyre's faith in art and its possibilities.
Julie Andreyev: I Tweet, Therefore I Am
Julie Andreyev’s project for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad engaged issues around communication, technology and animal experience. As Heidi May reports, Andreyev successfully used real-time Twitter posts to create an on-site projection that was both sensory and studious.
Katie Bethune-Leamen: Public Images Limited
Mashing up 1980s pop bands, early polar explorers and WW1-era ships, Katie Bethune-Leamen’s recent show referenced many influences. Here, critic Lee Henderson observes that Bethune-Leamen’s approach called art itself into question.
Brendan Tang: From Manga to Ming
In Brendan Tang’s ceramic artworks, it seems as if ancient Chinese porcelains battle futuristic robotic prosthetics. Meditating on his recent show in Lethbridge, writer Anne Dymond finds Tang’s hybrids funny, beautiful and ever so tempting.
Kelly Jazvac: Vinyl Virtuoso
Noting that Kelly Jazvac’s energy, humour and materials are reminiscent of Robert Rauschenberg’s famed Gluts series, writer and curator Vanessa Nicholas reviews Jazvac’s recent Toronto exhibition of vinyl sculpture.
Corin Sworn: Projecting the Past
This spring, the biannual Glasgow International Festival filled one of Scotland’s biggest cities with art by global and local luminaries. As Alhena Katsof writes, Corin Sworn’s exhibition on reading, projection and nostalgia was a definite highlight.