I curate visual arts under The Art Junkie banner and I write from time to time on Colder by The Lake. I am an accredited facilitator for Amherst Writers & Artists, which runs not-for-profit writing workshops.
Éloïse Brodeur does cows – motionless, content and ruminating cows, in an almost monochromatic palette, with a few bright backgrounds. Galerie LeRoyer in Old Montreal is exhibiting her works, a panoply of poses that capture what Brodeur calls bovine bodies distorted by overproduction. I feel appeased when painting […]
Sarah Anne Johnson has had a significant impact on Canadian photography, as winner of the Grange Prize, as a focal point of numerous exhibits and as a rising international star who represents this country abroad. Her work is in New York’s Guggenheim Museum and she has taught photography […]
A major retrospective on Takao Tanabe, one of Canada’s most esteemed artists, is open now at the Burnaby Art Gallery, with 60 works that have never been publicly viewed. It runs through Jan. 22, 2012. Tanabe, 85 years old, is best known as a landscape painter and internationally […]
John MacGregor’s lifelong fixation on time led him to re-structure his view of clocks, which appear in his art as the fluid, un-regimented devices he would prefer. “My clocks have been in the making for more than 30 years. They are an expression of my dissatisfaction with the […]
Mario Doucette was an emerging Acadian artist when he was short-listed for Canada’s Sobey Art Award in 2008, and his reputation has strengthened in the intervening years. Doucette’s latest recognition is to be included among 60 artists selected by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art for the largest […]
Quebec artist Claude A. Simard has had more than two dozen solo exhibitions, designed stamps for Canada Post, completed a number of major mural commissions and published two books. His newest exhibit (just ended) at Galerie Walter Klinkhoff in Montreal describes a lifelong love of Provence, and gives […]
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