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This new project by Cheryl Sourkes investigates two myths concerning the origin of human life: the scientific myth (the genetic code) and the cultural myth (the Genesis account). Sourkes sees these themes as inextricably linked- her work...
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Big Charlie Says There’s Something in the Eyes is a new exhibition by Ottawa artist Michael Wall. The exhibition is composed of 66 photographic images of the eyes of people, who at some time in their lives have had problems with their use...
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How should we represent the unthinkable? How to bring the past horrors of the Holocaust into our comfortable present without reducing the victims to a lurid spectacle? These are among the challenges faced by Pam Skelton as she works to re-...
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TV Trap is a multi-media installation dealing with the ways television has changed the way human beings interact with each other. The artist is interested in exploring the thesis that the influence of broadcast television has narrowed and...
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Timepiece is a new video installation by Montreal artist Gisèle Trudel. Her installation deals with the relationship of perception, movement and time to changes in the history of representation. Imaging conventions taken from the history...
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Concerned with questions about the authenticity and accuracy of images in contemporary society, Marc Behiel’s Digital Landscapes project presents a series of computer-generated images of landscapes. These images are displayed on a computer...
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Witness is the title of a news series of bookworks by Ottawa artist Germaine Koh. Based on the artists’ analysis of the convention of the courtroom sketch, the books contain computer-manipulated versions of drawings she has assembled...
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The project is based on the artist’ re-reading and re-presentation of a mid-1960’s comic book, Pasty & Hedy: Career Girls. The adventures of Pasty and Hedy – two young “career girls” in search of fund and good times –were originally...
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Already in 1964 he published his first caricatures and from that year on he published cartoons and book illustrations until he made his first animated short in 1977: IS THE EARTH ROUND? But that wasn’t his first contact with the film...
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Grounded in the artist’s profound commitment to the Kurdish struggle for self-determination, the exhibition is an installation of the artist’s large paintings, which combine a realistic documentation of Kurdish life with an emotional and...
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The Emerging Artists Showcase offers Ottawa audiences a chance to view the work of seven emerging Canadian artists working in a variety of disciplines and media.
Works by Cathy Cahill, Anne Cooper, Sadko Hadzihasanovic, Anette Larsson (...
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“The point is that mathematics and reading are activities of the sign, and the painting is also.” -Norman Bryson
“… if Eco’s misgivings about ‘verbocentric dogmatism’ are justified in relation to the literature of semiotics itself, they...
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Lee Goreas’ painting approaches the medium as a vehicle for social communication, employing narrative and non-narrative strategies including series and multiple-format works whose configuration changes over time. The elimination of...