Robin Laurence

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  Gathie Falk

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  Jin-me Yoon

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  “Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment”

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  Dempsey Bob

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  Charlene Vickers and Faye HeavyShield

  Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery’s (CAG) pairing of two solo shows, “Ancestor Gesture” by Charlene Vickers and “New Work” by Faye HeavyShield, appeared, on first viewing, strangely unequal.

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  William Kentridge

  Beneath all the absurdity—a big disembodied nose strutting around the tower, riding on horseback, ascending a rickety stairway towards a podium only to fall off it and ascend again— what is really being expressed here are sorrow and dismay.

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  “Madiha Aijaz: Memorial for the lost pages” Althea Thauberger, Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Duniya

  Videos and inkjet prints by the late Karachi-based artist Madiha Aijaz examine, among other things, the complex cultural, political and linguistic legacy of colonialism as revealed in her city’s urban spaces.

  Vancouver-based Althea Thauberger’s ambitious video touches on the communal, relational and, in some ways, aspirational meanings associated with Karachi’s Capri Cinema.

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  Lyse Lemieux

  Lyse Lemieux has, over the past 10 years, created a distinctive and compelling art practice by expanding notions of what drawing is and can be.

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  “People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point”

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  Vikky Alexander

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  Remembering Gordon Smith

  The first time I saw Gordon Smith, he was delivering a talk to a group of students at what was then the Banff School of Fine Arts. I was 19, enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Calgary and, in an attempt to catch up on credits after switching my major from English to fine arts, was taking a summer painting course in Banff.

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  Close Stitching

  At school, she was eventually consoled by the peaceful attitude of a teacher. “His name was Mr. Webster and he was always so calm. After I saw him, I was interested in learning English.” Then she adds, “My classmates were like me, abducted from their homeland. But we connected really well and we had an opportunity to have fun each day.” Later on, while she was home on breaks from middle school in Churchill and high school in Yellowknife, her father insisted that she and her sister and brother maintain their first language—written and spoken. Not incidentally, she signs all her work in Inuktitut syllabics.

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