1. RADIANT DARK

August 26 - October 19, 2008

Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge Ontario

Loyal Loot Collective’s Log Bowls. Image: loyalloot.com

Just when we were wondering when a multi-disciplinary exhibition would come along that combines art, design and architecture, here it is, courtesy of Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson of MADE in in Toronto.

MADE is a design shop in Toronto that specializes in young Canadian design. Taking the current trend toward gothic luxury, the two have brought together 29 designers including:

Andrée Wejsmann – click HERE
Loyal Loot Collective – click HERE
Molo Design – click HERE
Propellor Design – click HERE
Tamara Rushlow – click HERE
And many more…

Molo Design’s Soft Wall, made of paper. Image: inhabitat.com

For MADE’s website, please click HERE.

For Cambridge Galleries, click HERE.

2. INHABITED LANDSCAPE: Selections from the Canadian Historical Collection

30 August 2008 – 26 April 2009

Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Kingston Ontario

A.Y. Jackson, Winter Morning. This painting sold at auction in May for $71,500 against an estimate of $20 - 30,000.
Image: ritchies.com

In a ‘fresh’ take on the tradition of Canadian landscape, the curators of this exhibition highlight works that show populated landscape, as opposed to the barren wilderness of the Great White North so often associated with Canada and the Group of Seven.

Works included J.E.H. MacDonald’s Wild Ducks, A. J. Casson’s Mill Houses and Arthur Lismer’s Quebec Village.

The exhibition also features topographic colonial watercolours, Confederation-era images and bold Impressionist views, including an early work by Emily Carr and works by Frederick A. Verner, Homer Watson, Horatio Walker, and J.W. Morrice.

LECTURE: Wednesday 29 October, 7:30 pm, Dr. John O’Brian, co-editor of the recently published Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art.

For exhibition information, please click HERE.

3. ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Native Land

MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax

23 August - 5 October, 2008

Seven artists have been asked to “to formulate the variations of “sovereignty” that they express as their “anthem.”

Eric Robertson, Untitled, 2007. Image: msvu.ca

KC Adams - click HERE
Fastwurms - click HERE
Cynthia Girard - click HERE
Dana Inkster - click HERE
Shirley Moorhouse - click HERE
Eric Robertson - click HERE
And Alisdair MacRae..

Curator Ryan Rice says: “The dynamic range of art works exhibited gives evidence of the artists’ varied contributions to a more inclusive national narrative. Their creative efforts expose and accept the diverse forms of nationalism that exist across the country, and question a generic and exclusive definition of Canadian identity. Ultimately, ANTHEM is about community, broadening notions of community, and tolerating community’s expansion and contraction by locating and negotiating our relationship to space (native land), place (home), and respecting self.”

For information on the exhibition, please click HERE.