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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From Dust to Light: On Photography’s Material Traces
On the occasion of the opening of a Handful of Dust, at the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, visiting curator David Campany shared an…
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The Legacy of Mary Sully: Early Indigenous Feminism, and the “American Indian Abstract”
Few people have seen the work of 20th-century Indigenous artist Mary Sully. Despite her belonging to a prominent Indigenous family (one of her drawings…
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Applying “Applied Art”: Gropius Bau Mines Old Division Under New Direction
The term “applied art” can only read as a misnomer in 2019, when the line between strictly functional and purely aesthetic art practices has…
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Deeper Wounds: Nep Sidhu and Aestheticizing Trauma
To reconstitute memory that has been violently suppressed, we often turn toward the monumental, hoping to fill a discursive void with a profusion of…
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The Substance of Grief: Nelson Henricks Deepens the Black Page
In the course of my grieving, I lost my capacity to represent my grief to others. There were no useful tools to properly describe…
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The Architecture of Exclusion: Storytelling Hannah Hoffman’s New Home Through Paul Williams and Tony Cokes
Architect Paul Williams used to sketch out plans, virtuosically, upside down. He became famous for this skill – most writing about him mentions it….
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More Culture than Capital: Modesty and Ambition at the Atlanta Biennial
Every year, more cities mount biennials. Over a century of variations on a similar theme, and the purpose of this recurring model remains unclear…
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Can Words “Bounce”? A Complicated Resilience on Vancouver Island
“Words are worldly; not just in the sense that they proliferate and float up into the sky and become cloud-like. Words world too.” Billy-Ray…
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Feeling the Idea: Jennifer Rose Sciarrino Advances a Speculative Future in Flesh
A strangeness has taken root in Jennifer Rose Sciarrino’s Ruffled Follicles and a Tangled Tongue, at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. It’s a strangeness…
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