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Roger Ballen: Raw Power

Roger Ballen: Raw Power

There are few contemporary image-makers who capture the essentially chaotic beauty of human existence as well as the Johannesburg-based photographer Roger Ballen. A tight overview of work at the OCAD Professional Gallery clarifies his practice.

NeoHooDoo: Meet Me in Miami

NeoHooDoo: Meet Me in Miami

It’s not uncommon, when visiting the Miami area during March Break, to run into fellow Canadians on the beach. But it is a surprise to run into familiar names like Brian Jungen and Rebecca Belmore at Florida’s major art museum. The context—a strong travelling exhibition called “NeoHooDoo”—makes the encounter extra-fortuitous.

Ingres and the Moderns: Harems, Hijacked

Ingres and the Moderns: Harems, Hijacked

Cindy Sherman, Francis Bacon and Robert Mapplethorpe. “Ingres and the Moderns” in Quebec City sets out to celebrate the Turkish Bath master while tracing his influence across contemporary art.

Lucy Hogg: Mastering the Old Masters

Lucy Hogg: Mastering the Old Masters

For her third show in her adopted city of Washington, the former Vancouver artist Lucy Hogg has lined two parallel walls in a narrow gallery with oval canvases painted in odd monochromes—muted plums and raspberries, olive-lime, bruised grey, brick, teal, tamped scarlet and dulled turquoise.

Gakona: Art Goes Electric in Paris

Gakona: Art Goes Electric in Paris

It seems fitting that intrigue, rumours and conjecture should accompany the art in “Gakona,” a group show inspired by a small town in Alaska where, reportedly, secretive experiments with electricity are carried out by the American government.

David Mabb: William Morris and Constructivism Meet the Marketplace

David Mabb: William Morris and Constructivism Meet the Marketplace

For close to a decade, London-based artist David Mabb has been doing mash-ups of William Morris, combining his designs with the utopian projects of Russian Constructivists such as Malevich, Rodchenko and Lissitzky.

Elmgreen & Dragset

Elmgreen & Dragset

A neon-pink sign that reads “The Mirror” twitches promisingly above the exterior door to the gallery on a rainy, grey London day. “ADMISSION OVER 18 ONLY” warns a steely plaque on the door. The gallery entrance looks foreign; once inside, I realize that the shelter from the rain only generates a deeper depression.

Valérie Blass

Valérie Blass

Parisian Laundry, an expansive three-storey gallery in the alternately dilapidated and gentrified Montreal district of St-Henri, is a strangely suitable venue for the work of the Montreal sculptor Valérie Blass.

Kai Althoff

Kai Althoff

Kai Althoff is a 42-year-old German artist who works
with an exceptionally wide range of practices and
media: his activities include traditional image-making,
collaboration, relational aesthetics and the plumbing of
the deepest recesses of childhood memory and experience.

Peter Bowyer/Ron Giii

Peter Bowyer/Ron Giii

In his large-scale drawing and sculptural installations, Peter Bowyer creates engaging narrative tableaux with subtle critical subtexts.