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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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  Divided Pathways: Painting’s Choice

  McIntosh is a highly intelligent painter whose predisposition is to be on the lookout for new ways of using colour and form. “I never want to fully know what I am going to have at the end because then I wouldn’t need to make the painting.” She is especially interested in a wilfully induced pictorial alienation in which what she sees is what she hasn’t seen before.

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  The Synonym Revealer’s Life

  There is a playful sense of menace in Farber’s work. One blog entry includes a list of “Songs improved by replacing the word love with the word blood,” and among them is “Blood Me Tender,” a tune that reimagines Elvis Presley as a crooning vampire. The imminence of something that approximates tender bloodletting, and other kinds of chaos, is everywhere visible in Farber’s paintings and drawings. These activities are more genial than gruesome. Things forever teeter on the edge of some anticipated occurrence, the conditions and consequences of which are not immediately apparent.

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  Meating Place

  Working in his Winnipeg studio at the end of 2012, Ufuk Gueray was hungry. The hunger was for change, not food. In one way, he had already had his fill. He was painting garish cityscapes and abandoned plazas with monstrous vehicles driving through them in an oversaturated Pop palette. “I was attracted to that sense of over-the-top colour. It was like eating too many sweets.” He felt he needed an antidote, something salty to offset all that flavour. He came up with was the idea of painting meat, and the container for that sea change was the common sausage.

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  Brick Layers

  Tyler Hilton is not a conventional storyteller. In a mesmerizing combination of words and pictures, he is engaged in a narrative about a character with the unusual name of Minmei Madelynne Pryor. Minmei is a deeply unhappy individual, relentlessly self-critical and involved with her reluctant boyfriend, River Phoenix. His inconsistency is understandable since he has been dead for nearly two decades.

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  Drawing on History

  Places for Peanuts

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  Stolen Affinities

• The Woman Who Ate Money: A Parable for Our Times

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  Too Little and Too Much, All the Time

  “You are aware of the fact that you are looking at something that you cannot describe: that you can only understand or not understand. So you are arriving at a knowledge that cannot be translated into words.”

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