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
GGs in Review: Raising the Ottawa Bar
Though often considered staid, Ottawa is the city where the prime symbolic battles of Canadian visual culture are waged. Accordingly, the just-opened Governor General’s Awards exhibition provides much to debate about.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
In his large-scale drawing and sculptural installations, Peter Bowyer creates engaging narrative tableaux with subtle critical subtexts.
Synesthesia: Art and the Mind
Presented in collaboration with McMaster’s Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, the exhibition “Synesthesia: Art and the Mind” aims to contextualize artists and their works in terms of this half-understood term referring to the joining of the senses.