New media art has been on VoCA’s mind lately. Particularly the many excellent and underrated video artists in Canada.

VoCA’s top ten video artists:

1. Daniel Cockburn
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Image: cinematexas.org

2. Donnigan Cumming
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Image: Pleasure Dome

3. Vera Frenkel
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Image: museevirtuel.ca

4. Gunilla Josephson
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Image: artsudbury.org

5. Sylvie Laliberte
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Image: diamon.qc.ca

6. Robert Morin
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Image: museevirtuel.ca

7. Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
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Image: bbc.co.uk

8. Tom Sherman
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Image: virtualmuseum.ca

9. Lisa Steele
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Image: Walker Art Centre

And then there’s Chantal duPont, who won the $10,000 Bell Canada Video Art Prize this year.

Read more HERE

ANALOGUE is an exhibition of pioneering video from the UK, Canada and Poland (1968 – 1988). Curated by Lisa Steele and Peggy Gale, the Canadian program features work by:

-Pierre Falardeau and Julien Poulin
-Colin Campbell
-David Askevold
-Jeffrey Spalding
-Eric Cameron
-Lisa Steele
-Rodney Werden
-Paul Wong
-Daniel Dion and Phillipe Poloni
-General Idea
-Tom Sherman
-Alex Poruchnyk
-Jayce Salloum
-Su Rynard
-Vera Frenkel
-Robert Morin and Lorraine Dufour

Having shown at TATE MODERN in November and TATE BRITAIN just a few days ago, the exhibit travels to the ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES in New York, 5th-7th January 2007:
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NORWICH GALLERY in Norforlk, England from the 8th-20th January 2007:
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Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool from 2nd-4th March 2007:
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In October-November 2007, the program will be exhibited at MOCCA (The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) in Toronto:
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Speaking of MoCCA, VoCA went to see the current exhibition this past weekend. The Invisible Landscape revealing our place in the world (through January 21, 2007) is curated by MoCCA director DAVID LISS, and it marks a (strangely and unfortunately) VERY RARE event: the exhibition of important Canadian historical and contemporary work with international work together in a curated exhibition.

When was the last time you saw a LAWREN HARRIS beside a GERHARD RICHTER? And why on earth not?

Holly King’s lovely reflective painting reminded us a bit of the work by Jakub Dolejs, which we saw at a fantastic show Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa recently. That show will be travelling to the Vancouver Art Gallery from February 3 - 21 May, 2007. See it if you can.

Speaking of travelling exhibitions, the national gallery tours many fine shows. Click HERE to see what’s on and where.

VoCA also dropped by THE DRAKE HOTEL to check out the new painting show, the nicely titled Different Strokes. What, we wondered, are young Canadian painters doing these days?

The best work that we saw was by Elizabeth McIntosh who shows with Diaz Contemporary in Toronto and Newzones in Calgary.

Art can be pretty hit and miss, not all good artists are good all the time…d’you know what we mean? We couldn’t find an image of hers online that was really great…so no image. Sorry.

But you can check out more of her work HERE

We missed the exhibition opening of the also nicely titled Bubble and Squeak that opened on Saturday at P/M gallery, but here’s some of what you can expect – and we highly recommend you check it out too:

For more info click HERE

(We missed it because we were having dinner at GEORGE, a wonderful Toronto restaurant.)

Check it out HERE. Yum. The restaurant also has a newsletter for foodies…

LINK HERE.

Interesting and little-known Canadian art fact #3:

Sculptor Richard Serra and avant-garde composer Philip Glass both live in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

See why HERE