• Is it safe to suggest that art, in all forms, questions authority? As our century draws to a close, we can glance back to the beginning and notice that each movement that emerged perceptually delved into the realm of inventing new ideas,...
  • This exhibition presents books in a variety of media demonstrating this important aspect of contemporary art production. Questioning the traditional forms of the printed book, these artists propose new forms, new contents and new ways to...
  • In the past five years, Levergneux’s art practice has incorporated photography and digital imaging as devices to express her interest with personal memory and identity. The computer provides her with the means to manipulate, edit, and...
  • Face Value investigates how three artists, adopting neither a utopic nor antagonistic attitude toward painting, uphold an unapologetic and integral relationship with its historical tradition, including a recognition and exploitation of its...
  • Inter Place is one in a series of installations by Screen under the rubric of Space Arm Program; an initiative to project onto the future present the spectre of audio visual prosthesis – telepresence, surveillance, and life via remote...
  • Cathy Mullen situates her work among artists, researchers and educators who attempt to articulate a framework for understanding what the art critic Suzi Gablik has called, “a new connective, participatory aesthetics, a value-based art that...
  • Daily News includes works from two series, Coverage (1995-96) and A Day in the Life (1997-98). Both bodies of work force the coalescence of photographic image with three-dimensional form, and the intermixing of domestic with public realms...
  • Chantal Gervais’ photo installation uses the human body to explore the transient nature of existence. In the installation a darkened room is punctuated by detailed and graphic images of the body that seem to be suspended in space. The...
  • Incredibly Soft Sounds took the form of a group exhibition of audio art projects solicited from an open call for submissions. The theme suggests audio art projects solicited from an open call for submissions. The theme suggests audio art...
  • This multidisciplinary exhibition was initiated with a call for submissions inviting artists to consider the potential of language as a medium of urban interaction. The call focused on the ways in which language – particularly in its...
  • The State of Viewing: Distinguishing Between Wayne and Shuster is a response to a number of concerns that can be placed under the loose heading of “civics”. In its two previous shows PLACE AND SHOW explored the relationship of artworks to...
  • Dilemma… It is perplexing to me, this need for the written word, this anxiety for print. Does Barbara Brown’s work need my writing to legitimize it? Explain it? Or define it? Of course not. I cannot. It is all the more a perplexing dilemma...
  • PRIVATE EYE Richard Storms investigates the vocabulary of paint By IHOR HOLUBIZKY Richard Storms’ work over the past few years is characterized by a constant development of a painterly vocabulary and his periodic resolution of a pictorial...
  • Co-curators Lynda Hall and Deborah Margo selected three projects form a national call for proposals. Their choices reflect the continual questioning and evolution of artist-run centres, and the definition and function of an exhibition...
  • Gabriel’s interest in early American Industrial buildings stems in part from the influence these structures had on the Modernist Esthetics used in European architecture. Monumental silos, grain elevators, and factories stand in ruin. For...
  • Marguerite is an exhibition that is a story of history and memory, landscape, struggle, and permission, denial and imagination. Where there is promise, there is strength. The exhibition is also and again the artist’s own story. I am...
  • The works of Peter Gnass are large assertive sculptural installations which evoke at first a feeling of mystery. This mystery is the invisible thread connecting the individual objects and various works, and it is that other dimension...
  • Mary Balomenos is an anglophone, second-generation Greek Canadian who has spent the last ten years developing her painting in Paris, France. This complex cultural situation manifests itself not only physically in her crowded studio filled...
  • Attention Painting that uses only a few colours, simple forms, repetitive structures, uncomplicated premises –painting such as Adrian Gollner’s work –is painting of reduced means. With a decrease in variety of visual information, the...

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