Detritus found in back alleys Rusted rickety twisted metal Looping hoses Panty hose pantyhose Silicone plastic trapped Dolly Limbs. Limbs upon limbs Plastic pictured photos torn Red. Other colours but mostly red Sand Strange and disparate objects and imagery are joined and fused into discordant collages and sculptures in Marcia Pitch’s exhibition The Invisible
A short review of things past is in order, here: the biennial exhibition Ice Follies began in 2004, when Dermot Wilson, then the director and curator of the WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay, decided to move beyond the parameters of the gallery’s white box,
Bright and richly-patterned paintings boldly occupy the walls at SBC Gallery, presenting the exhibition Vende Tela, Compra Terra. The works, made on large unstretched canvases, teem with tropical wildlife. Trees, birds, fish, snakes, hogs, armadillos, pacas, tapirs, among other figures, are entangled with one another
Although hundreds of years old, the tendency to associate a career in art with a life spent in poverty struggle is still common enough, and the past decade has seen a new and more developed focus upon the troubled place in which artists and economics
Demi-monde is the intriguing title for Mathieu Beausejour’s recent solo exhibition at Galerie Bradley Ertaskiran. The term, derived from Alexandre Dumas’ 1855 play, refers to a group of women on the margins of society, who receive support from moneyed lovers. Over time, the term has
On 15 June 2011, my Comparative Civilizations teacher in high school introduced our class to the work of Mark Rothko, showing us slide after slide of his alternately ominous and euphoric colour-field paintings. Convinced that I had detected precisely those “basic human emotions” Rothko sought
Miles Greenberg’s most recent project Late October took place at Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto late last Fall. Precious Okoyomon's poem “Late October'' appeared as a sort of precursory libation at the entrance to the exhibition. The poem speaks to an interregnum that many of us
To meet a stranger in chance circumstances and then realize that the many affinities you share might just spark a nascent friendship is indeed a precious (
[text available in French only] The art critic and curator (and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) Bénedicte Ramade publishes a review of the film (
[text available in French only] Ariane Lemieux is a doctor of art history specializing in the history of museums and publishes here a review of "Displacement, destruction, protection: views on endangered heritage", a round table on November 5th, 2019 with artist Dominique Blain (
[text available in French only] Michelle Drapeau is a candidate for the Master's degree in Art History at Laval University, an independent curator and cultural worker from Moncton (NB), based in Quebec City and publishes here a review of the MNBAQ's exhibition "COZIC. Over to
[text available in French only] Anna Brunette is a master's student in art history at UQAM and publishes here a review on the two recent Axeneo7 exhibitions: Alexis Bellavance's "Compressions : tables préparées" and Sarah Wendt + Pascal Dufaux's "Quelque part dans l’inachevé".