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 […]
Robyn Cumming’s ever evolving and sometimes disturbing work is featured at next month’s Photorama, the 25th anniversary of the Toronto Photographers Workshop annual fundraising exhibit. Her extensive body of work sometimes is a challenge to interpret, something the Toronto-based photo artist acknowledges. There is a strangeness to how […]
Deborah Margo is about to have a prizewinning neighborhood project unveiled in Ottawa, a good time to revisit her fascinating previous installation art. Twice, she’s worked with these sugar-based jawbreaker style balls in exhibits with names as fascinating as her work. The first, Giant Okeydokes 20085, consisted of […]
A film about Wanda Koop’s journey on a Great Lakes freighter is one of the screenings in the Canadian Women Artists Documentary Series at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax. The films offer intimate portraits of four notable contemporary Canadian women artists: Koop, Shuvinai Ashoona, Annie Pootoogook and […]
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