Duane Linklater, "boys don’t cry," 2017
digital prints on hand-dyed linen, 120 x 180 inches. Purchased by the AGO with funds from the Dr. Michael Braudo Canadian Contemporary Art Fund and the Art Toronto 2019 Opening Night. (courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. © Duane Linklater. Photo: Dennis Ha. Installation view, “apparatus for the circulation of Indigenous ideas and sounds into the air,” Western Front, Vancouver, 2017)
Western Canadian galleries did well last month at Art Toronto, a major contemporary art fair.
Canadian Art reports that Calgary's Jarvis Hall Gallery sold works by Corri-Lynn Tetz, Mark Dicey, Yvonne Mullock and Kablusiak.
Catriona Jeffries, of Vancouver, sold a textile work by Duane Linklater, boys don’t cry, 2017, to the Art Gallery of Ontario, it says.
Other Vancouver gallery sales included: Equinox Gallery (Angela Teng and Sonny Assu); Marion Scott Gallery/Robert Kardosh Projects (Mark Igloliorte and Janet Nungnik); Monte Clark Gallery (Colleen Heslin) and Unit 17 (Anne Low, Ursula Mayer and Douglas Watt.)
Meanwhile, Mark Reddekopp at Vancouver's Gallery Jones told Galleries West that works by Cole Morgan, Otto Rogers, Danny Singer and James Nizam were sold at Art Toronto.
Source: Canadian Art, Gallery Jones