Another Small Disturbance: Shannon Garden-Smith at MKG127
A mutual excitement is shared between two people who have encountered a Shannon Garden-Smith work. Vibrant carpets of sand, featuring marbled or herringbone designs,…
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Body Believing: Jana Sterbak at Musée des Hospitalières and Esker Foundation
There is a quality of lore around Jana Sterbak. Alongside her temperamental performances and pyrotechnic affinities, she is the artist of burning crowns, interred…
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Prescient About Still-Active Threats, Marisol Is Right on Time
Near the end of the definitive, long-overdue survey of the artist Marisol at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, after a parade of totemic sculptural…
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Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting
Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who pulls apart our expectations of the photograph. Like a back door or a sprung leak, her…
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Stringing the Net: An Interview with Small Arts Patron Annie Koyama
In 2007, anticipating a recession that would destabilize so much, the celebrated publisher Annie Koyama began giving out small grants to artists – “quietly,”…
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Listening to Jeanne Randolph
I have been lucky enough to sit in a dark room listening to Jeanne Randolph talk. I should mention that I say this very…
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The Future Wandering of Tau Lewis
A conversation with Tau Lewis is an exercise in looking back as much as in looking forward. In discussing her figurative sculptures, she circles…
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Grafting the Baroque: The Scaled-Up Frames of David Armstrong Six
“Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical…
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Looking Out from Looking In: Geneviève Cadieux Shifts From the Polemic to the Poetic
Milling through the Vancouver Art Gallery earlier this spring, I stopped before a towering diptych that paired a cartoon prince and a back-turned nude….
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The Seductive Branding of Phoebe Greenberg
Phoebe Greenberg occupies a unique position in Montreal’s art community, as well as in Canada – and she’s made sure of it. The former…
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