By Anna Kovler
Oct, 2019
Adam Basanta uses sound and image to illustrate the behavior of feedback loops, blurring the line between technology and nature while testing the boundaries of authorship.
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By Anna Kovler
Artnet News, by Sarah Cascone
Sep 23, 2019
Rachel Maclean represented Scotland in the 2017 Venice Biennale, but she’s still never had a solo show in New York. She’s painted the walls of Arsenal Contemporary with giant, off-kilter Union Jack flags as a backdrop for the new eight-channel video piece Native Animal.
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Infopresse, by Hélène R. Hidalgo
Sep 16, 2019
Dans son plus récent projet photographique In Guns We Trust, Jean-François Bouchard, cofondateur de Sid Lee, explore la psyché américaine et la culture des armes à feu en plein coeur du désert de l’Arizona, dans le plus grand champ de tir des États-Unis.
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Artsy Editors
Sep 16, 2019
Genesis Belanger charmed the New York art world in the fall of 2017 with her small-but-mighty show of otherworldly ceramic foodstuffs, cigarettes, and fingers at Mrs. Gallery.
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Patwhite.com
Sep 12, 2019
Après avoir été présentée au Musée d’art de Joliette à l’automne 2018, l’exposition Migrations de l’artiste britannique Mat Chivers entame sa tournée. Elle investira les espaces d’Arsenal art contemporain Montréal du 17 septembre au 20 décembre 2019.
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Mousse Magazine
Sep, 2019
Arsenal Contemporary is pleased to present Shallow Mirror High Tower, an exhibition featuring four artists who each draw parallels between our (non)built environments and distributions of power therein.
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By Anna Kovler
Sep, 2019
David Altmejd’s practice is often beyond words. In breadth and variety that is astounding, he has given rise to werewolf heads and surreal humans beyond wild imagination.
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By Anna Kovler
Aug, 2019
Rose Marcus is known for photographic works that blur the boundary between photograph, abstract painting and sculptural object. Printed on vinyl and adhered to display and construction substrates, her photographs are then incised, layered, punctured with large cut out shapes or partially veiled in fabric.
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By Anna Kovler
Aug, 2019
Glasgow-based artist Rachel Maclean is known for dramatic, highly staged, satirical and grotesquely funny films that poke fun at British politics and other current topics like the rise in plastic surgery, effects of social media, and cuteness culture.
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By Anna Kovler
Jul, 2019
Genesis Belanger is quickly gaining recognition for her ceramic sculptures that playfully critique visual tropes of gender, desire, work and addiction.
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ARTNEWS
Jul 8, 2019
This four-person group show explores environments and the power dynamics that undergird them.
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Concordia University, by Karly Beard
Jun 1, 2019
Des étudiants en beaux-arts participent à un projet collaboratif avec l’artiste britannique Mat Chivers
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British Journal of Photography, by Marigold Warnerà
May 1, 2019
The Big Sandy is America’s largest machine-gun shooting range. It stretches a quarter of a mile across the western desert of Arizona, one of the most “gun-friendly” states in the country. Twice a year it is the venue for a three-day convention, where extreme gun enthusiasts sample their most sophisticated weapons.
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Artnet news, by Caroline Goldstein & Sarah Cascone
May 1, 2019
Jean-François Bouchard journeyed deep into the heart of Arizona to document American gun culture and the tourism that has sprung up around it. The resulting photographs have a strong cinematic flavor, offering a dramatic view of the recreational use of military-grade weapons.
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The Washington Post, by Chloe Coleman
Apr 24, 2019
In Arizona’s western desert, the Big Sandy lays claim to being the venue of the largest machine gun shoot in the United States. Twice a year, a crowd of legally armed machine gunners spends a weekend on the quarter-mile-long range firing at a wide range of targets.
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By Anna Kovler
Apr, 2019
Since 2009 Caroline Monnet has been writing and directing films that centre on the strength and resilience of indigenous peoples in Canada. In her sculptural and installation work she uses materials like concrete, wood, arrows, copper and clothes to explore the complexity of indigenous identity from the vantage point of her urban position and lifestyle.
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Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival
Apr, 2019
In a new series of ‘Fragment’ portraits, Monnet has developed individualized masks that overlay the faces of chosen subjects. Mixing facial features with geometric shapes, new identities are forged through abstraction and interference.
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Métro, by Charlotte Mercille
Mar 28, 2019
Plusieurs mardis par année, le centre d’art Arsenal art contemporain Montréal engage la conversation avec des artistes de tous les horizons dans ses vastes galeries.
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Wired, by Michael Hardy
Mar 27, 2019
Twice a year, hundreds of America's most hardcore gun enthusiasts flock to the northern Arizona desert to spend a weekend firing military-grade weapons at pickup trucks, storage containers, and grounded propeller planes.
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Whitewall
Mar 27, 2019
Open through April 18 at Arsenal Contemporary is Canadian artist Nicolas Baier’s “Nervure’s Path.” This is Baier’s first solo exhibition in the United States, continuing his work with exploring technology’s evolution and its influence on human life.
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