Anna Oppermann Looks Down
In 1979 at a University of Kansas conference, a remarkably contemporary thesis about the Venus of Willendorf and other similar Upper Paleolithic “goddess” figurines…
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Troubling Self-Care in a Selfie World: The Photographs of Karen Asher
Karen Asher has always photographed people, from those she knows intimately to the strangers she meets in passing. As portraits, they fall within an…
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A New Level of Anxiety in Derek Liddington
After seeing Derek Liddington’s solo show at aka artist-run in Saskatoon, I immediately went home to reread the first article I wrote on his…
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Picturing Nothing: Reading the Drawings of Sophie Jodoin Through the Words of Samuel Beckett
Four square all light sheer white blank planes all gone from mind. Never was but grey air timeless no sound figment the passing light….
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View from Here: On the Contingency of Sight in Wanda Koop
The emphatic capitalization of VIEW from HERE, Wanda Koop’s recent solo exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, implies an urgent specificity that is never…
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