Articles

Ron Shuebrook
Bertram Brooker
Paul-Emile Borduas, A Critical Biography by Francois-Marc Gagnon
Sylvie Bouchard
Sky Glabush
Phyllida Barlow
Material Self: Performing the Other Within

Curated by David Liss and Bonnie Rubenstein, MOCCA’s “Material Self: Performing the Other Within,” a major exhibition at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, looked to eight international photographers who use fantasy and masquerade as conduits for self-knowledge and personal transformation.
Painting Places Painting: Dagmar Dahle and Chris Kline

The Montreal based painter, Chris Kline, has mentioned his attraction, his listening to the Jacob van Ruisdael painting The Linen Bleaching Grounds Near Haarlem, 1670. In this landscape painting, the rectangular fields or grounds are shown from a distant viewpoint, with their hundreds of rectangles of whitening fabric spread out on the earth in grids, under tumultuous cloudy skies. This concern with fabric and textiles is a theme we see unfolding in the works of the painters Chris Kline and Dagmar Dahle.
Itinerary of a Traveller through Darkness

Over the last 10 years, Golland has executed what are arguably some of the most restless paintings being made today. Profoundly nomadic in their mien, with contents splayed out like warped architectures gone awry, they extrude upon us like rude kinetic tropes of the built world.
For the Time Being: Blue Republic’s Vanishing Acts

The two-person art collective who show as Blue Republic are partners in life as well as making. Married couple Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski have been creating a wide range of provocative, beautiful and genre-breaking work for years.
The Grand Synthesizer

Bordered by tangled vegetation, the scene is full of the natural energy and cultural incident that compel Smith’s eye, although he insists that he is giving up representational painting. He repeats that intention three times, like a mantra, and then indicates a crowd of recently completed canvasses, leaning against the far wall.
Iconographer of the Local

David Thauberger has an appetite for making, collecting and looking at art that mirrors the prairie space in which he lives; it’s wide-ranging and moves, unimpeded, in all directions. He is visually omnivorous, a disposition that was planted and grew in the layered art historical soil of Saskatchewan, his home province.

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