"FUTURE STATION: 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art," January 24 to May 3, 2015, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
Reviewed by Diana Sherlock more »
Features
"Through Nature’s Door: Metamorphosis and Other Common Marvels", April 3 to April 29, 2015 at the Wayne Arthur Gallery in Winnipeg
Judith Johnson and her daughter, Sharon Ann Johnson, reflect on the mysteries of the natural world in paintings and textile work in a joint exhibition, Through Nature’s Door: Metamorphosis and Other Common Marvels. more »
Feb 22, 2015 10:24 PM PREVIEWS
Cara Barer at Bau-Xi Vancouver, April 16 to April 30, 2015
Cara Barer’s work is a real page-turner. Using old books for her latest series, Origins, she revisions them as organic objects, manipulating them by curling their pages and dying them so they evoke flowers in bloom or butterflies in flight. more »
Feb 22, 2015 10:25 PM PREVIEWS
"Was Once Tomorrow", Feb. 7 to March 15, 2015 at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg
Art magazines that emerged and folded in Canada between 1990 and 2000 are the focus of Yesterday Was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool). more »
Jan 19, 2015 6:14 PM PREVIEWS
BACK ROOM: Sybil Andrews (1898 – 1992)
With its strong diagonal composition and stylized geometry, "Bringing in the Boat" is a modernist gem, uniting themes of sport and male bonding in a visual language steeped in its era. more »
BEVIN BRADLEY
Contrasts in the urban environment fascinate Bevin Bradley. She focuses on geometric shapes and layers in her work, reflecting the qualities of change and physical containment inherent in the city. more »
NIKOL HASKOVA
Vancouver artist Nikol Haskova has been painting crows for a few years, finding in them satisfying metaphors for human relationships. The birds are intelligent, she observes, and adapt easily to a world that humans are rapidly reshaping. more »
STEVE COFFEY
Steve Coffey’s paintings of the prairies around his home in the town of Vulcan in southern Alberta feature such vast and colourful skies they are almost an otherworldly final frontier worthy of the starship Enterprise. more »
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Joe Fafard opens "Mes Amis" at Slate in Regina
Opening March 26, 2015, this show celebrates fellow artists, past & present, who have inspired Fafard throughout his continued and successful career as one of Canada’s most well known artists. more »
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Jon Sasaki named 2015 Canadian Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Prize winner.
Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, Jon Sasaki, has been awarded the 2015 Canadian Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Prize for his work that aims to test the limits of sociability, conviviality, sustainability of actions, hope and enthusiasm. more »
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VICTORIAN CHARM AND COLONIAL RIGOR: SCHREIBER, HOPKINS AND EARLY FEMALE CANADIAN ARTISTS
Jill Turner of Masters Gallery - Vancouver blogs about the artwork of early Canadian female artists. more »
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IN MY OPINION: Cuba seeks a chronicler and a champion
It was something of happenstance that I travelled to Cuba at the very moment President Barrack Obama declared his desire to lift the 1962 U.S. trade embargo on the island nation. more »
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Photographer John Taylor to be inducted into RCA
Canadian photographer John Taylor, is selected as one of 12 artists across Canada to be inducted this year into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, May 16th in Montreal. more »
