Two veteran mavericks whose wide-ranging practices gradually came to concentrate around photography are enjoying late-career exhibitions in Toronto. Max Dean has received recent accolades,…
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“The internet does not exist,” wrote Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle in e-flux journal’s critical anthology of the same name. Perhaps…
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What should artists do in a time of crisis? This grave question haunted the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth-century. In the wake of…
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“Artists don’t own the meaning of their work.” New York Times critic Roberta Smith issued this controversial and affecting line to a full auditorium…
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Carol Wainio is a wonderful and troubling painter. For decades, a constant inventiveness in the ways of handling paint, of creating figures and spaces, has…
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Tricia Middleton came late to showing in commercial galleries. In a career spanning fifteen years, her late-2014 exhibition at Jessica Bradley Gallery in Toronto…
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“When I first showed the city footage in Poughkeepsie, [artist] Liam Gillick said to me, ‘Anri, tell me the truth. Tell me that this…
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Jillian Kay Ross doesn’t make conceptual paintings. She doesn’t question the fundamentals of her medium, or speak critically to any historical lineage. She isn’t…
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I visited Erin Loree’s Toronto studio a couple months before her first commercial exhibition, Midnight Bloom, opened at Angell Gallery in January. Working from…
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Like Gustav Klimt or Claude Monet, the unwilling darlings of dorm room posters everywhere, Maurits Cornelis Escher belongs to the class of meritorious artists…
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