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
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.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Blaring music, a crowded dance floor, countless margaritas and tall women dressed in PVC pants and motorcycle helmets serving canapés out of pizza boxes can only mean one thing: the private-view party at Haunch of Venison for the Mexican-Canadian multimedia artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's first commercial show in London.
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.
Eli Bornowsky
Eli Bornowsky claims to have arrived at abstract painting backwards. Neither the depictive arts in general nor the history of abstraction in particular initially concerned him. Instead, it was music (as diverse as Autechre, La Monte Young and Ornette Coleman) that brought him to abstraction.
If We Can’t Get It Together
In the face of internationalization, political volatility and mass migration, identities—and the communities to which they belong—have become more fluid than ever.
Andrew Forster
Andrew Forster, like Bettina Hoffmann, another compelling Montreal-based video-installation artist, has relied on the cyclical gesture to structure his recent performance and video work.
Tim Scott
Tim Scott doesn’t tell stories with his sculpture—he makes poetry. Whether it’s vibrant sheets of coloured acrylic or slabs of unglazed clay, Scott lets the medium speak first.
Alexandra Flood
The exhibition “Tableaux” represents eight years of work by Alexandra Flood, a New Brunswick artist known as a fine painter of curious subjects: hair, animal tails and, of late, nautical figureheads.