Your Cultural Concierge! VoCA offers critical commentary on the Canadian art scene, with a focus on Toronto. Featuring exhibition previews, critics picks, interviews and in-depth articles on art in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Halifax.
June 16th, 2008 — Articles by Andrea Carson, Montreal, Photography, Toronto and region
Montreal photo-manipulator Nicolas Baier is one of the hottest names on the Quebec art scene. Check out my review of his recent exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art & Projects, in Toronto:
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For more info, visit the artist’s website HERE
Baier is represented in Toronto by Jessica Bradley. Click HERE.
April 9th, 2008 — Architecture, Articles by Andrea Carson, Sculpture/Installation, Toronto and region
Paulette Phillips is a conceptual artist worth watching. Her latest work, on view at Diaz Contemporary, presents sculpture, photographs and video based on the Modernist architecture and furniture design of the Irish architect Eileen Gray.
Paulette Phillips, Details of Touche (magnetized books),2007. Image: diazcontemporary.ca
Click HERE to read my full article, from today’s Globe and Mail or click below for the article:
April 4th, 2008 — Articles by Andrea Carson, Toronto and region
Patrick Faigenbaum, Pantijelew Family (1997). Image: oakvillegalleries.com
The table is a deeply symbolic object, both as a meeting place and an enabler of culture. From the ancient Chinese to the tables in 17th century Dutch vanitas paintings, the table has been associated with nobility, culture and privilege….
To read more, click the thumbnail:
The exhibition continues until June 6, 2008.
Click HERE for the gallery website.
March 8th, 2008 — Articles by Andrea Carson
Rodney Graham, a work from Wet on Wet: My late early styles, 2007.
Image: lissongallery.com
Read my review of Rodney Graham’s recent exhibition at London’s Lisson Gallery:
March 8th, 2008 — Articles by Andrea Carson, Vancouver and region
Greg Girard, Doorway, Wukang Lu, 2003. Image: monteclarkgallery.com
Vancouver photographer Greg Girard has been living in Shanghai for a number of years, documenting the changes to the city’s landscape.
Read my review of his recent exhibition at the Monte Clark Gallery:
March 3rd, 2008 — Articles by Andrea Carson
In the Spring/Summer issue, out now.
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Oh, and don’t miss the artist’s court hearing, April 3rd, 2008 at 3 pm in Toronto.
February 28th, 2008 — Articles by Andrea Carson, Toronto and region
There’s an important exhibition on at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the Blackwood Galleries, Toronto on the relationship between art and war.
January 17 - March 2, 2008
Art and war may make strange bedfellows, but artists have long explored the emotions provoked by war and documented its realities…
Kristan Horton, Drawing of A History of the First World War (Disc 01), 2008.
Image: kristanhorton.com
Click on the thumbnail to read my full article in yesterday’s Globe and Mail:
For more information on the exhibition, please click HERE.
February 17th, 2008 — Art News: Canada, Articles by Andrea Carson, Books
An excellent book has just come out by Elspeth Cameron about the lives of 20th century Canadian sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle:
Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Image: lac-bac.ca
Read my review in Quill & Quire HERE
February 15th, 2008 — Articles by Andrea Carson, Toronto and region
Simon Starling: Cuttings (Supplement) at the Power Plant, Toronto
March 1 – 11 May, 2008
Simon Starling, Infestation Piece (Musselled Moore), 2007/8. Image: thepowerplant.org
The Power Plant will open a retrospective of British conceptual artist Simon Starling with a newly commissioned work made for The Power Plant, part of the gallery’s Commissioning Program launched in 2006.
October 22nd, 2007 — Articles by Andrea Carson
Click on the thumbnail to see my review of Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion and Self-Fashioning, which ran this summer at Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.
It’s in the October issue of Art Review magazine.
And on this thumbnail to see my preview of the Toronto International Art Fair in the Globe and Mail:
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