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In the Studio with Janet Werner

By Anna Kovler
Mar, 2020

Janet Werner has spent decades exploring the form of the portrait. Culled from fashion magazines, her women peer through thick mascara, don elaborate outfits, and inhabit bodies Werner has stretched and warped in paint.

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In the Studio with Walter Scott

By Anna Kovler
Mar, 2020

It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon as I head across town to Toronto’s east end and Walter Scott’s studio - a bright room with high ceilings where his works in progress seem camouflaged amid the studio furniture.

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Exhibition Essay - The Eroticism of Technology

Shauna Jean Doherty
Jan, 2020

In Hinduism the life of the world is divided into ages (yugas). At present, we find ourselves in the fourth and final age – the kali yuga – having drifted farthest from the divine and away from an age of truth, virtue, and righteousness.

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Tasman Richardson: Kali Yuga

MutualArt
Déc, 2019

Tasman Richardson's "Kali Yuga" consists of six media artworks, carefully arranged in a slightly askew, nearly symmetrical layout. The works address themes of erosion, distance, surveillance, exhibitionism and telepresence.

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Talk with Suzy Lake and Laurie Simmons

Arsenal Contemporary Art
Dec 11, 2019, 7 p.m.

Arsenal Contemporary NY is pleased to present a conversation between Suzy Lake and Laurie Simmons in conjunction with Performance of Protest, Lake’s first solo exhibition in NY.

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The Weekly Pic

Blake Gopnik on art
Dec 9, 2019

This is “Imitations of Myself #2,” made in 1973 by Suzy Lake and now in her little survey show at Arsenal Contemporary Art in New York. I remember seeing this body of work in Montreal, when Lake made it.

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Imagine Van Gogh, une exposition d'une puissante douceur

Radio Canada, par Eugénie Lépine-Blondeau
6 déc, 2019

Imaginez-vous dans une grande salle avec, en trame de fond, la douceur enveloppante des Gymnopédies d’Érik Satie, au beau milieu d'un spectacle livré par d’immenses panneaux colorés et lumineux représentant certaines des peintures les plus célèbres de Vincent Van Gogh.

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Van Gogh, du plancher au plafond

Le Devoir, par Caroline Monpetit
6 déc, 2019

Lorsqu’il peignait les fleurs et les paysages de Provence, où il a vécu à la fin de sa vie, Van Gogh n’imaginait sûrement pas ses toiles projetées en format géant sur les murs d’un centre d’art contemporain de Montréal.

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