June Clark’s Perseverance of Memory
June Clark’s Tubman (2023) is a large, mixed-media sculpture that captivates a glance immediately. Vertical strips of red, blue, and white yarn are bound…
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A Speculative Mourning: Iris Häussler’s Lament for Print Media
1991 was marked by several landmark global events: the USSR disbanded, formally ending the Cold War; Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web and…
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Artists in Isolation: There Have Always Been Signs
“We are not where we think we are,” Dr. Fauci warned, before we all woke up to an altered time. In this new reality,…
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Shannon Bool Traces the Women of Algiers
The symbolism of ornament has long founded Shannon Bool’s practice, and that’s lucky. It’s lucky that something so alluring could be both legitimating and…
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The Abject Intimacies of Chris Curreri
I would like to be like water or rather like milk – completely pourable am right now more like stone but like sand or…
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The Politics of Color in Kristine Moran
It’s tempting to consider Kristine Moran’s most recent work as a pivot-point in an ascendency from abstraction to figuration. Figures, indeed, are emerging from…
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These Are Not Ideas; These Are Things: A Conversation with Liz Magor
Liz Magor claims her “space between the mould and the cast.” It’s a pronouncement reified by thirty years of installation and sculpture that reads tentatively, delicately,…
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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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What Gets Revealed When Iris Häussler Finally Owns Her Name
It’s not easy to write about Iris Häussler. I’ve been avoiding it, though desiring it, since her daring He Named Her Amber (2008) subsumed the…
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Valérie Blass Is Both Accessible and Locked-Up in “My Life”
In the movies, we are accustomed to watching the main character navigate the edges of a party, fall into a moment of introspection, receding…
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