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Wanda Koop: A Lifetime Of Learning

Eyes Towards the Dove, by Katy Diamond Hamer
Jun 2, 2018

Artist Wanda Koop paints in a very lyrical way. She let’s the paint dictate the painting, not completely dissimilar from The Composition Series  by Kandinsky. Using acrylic in a watered-down format, Koop has been making work for forty years. In that time, she has inherently studied the medium, how it responds to various surfaces, and how to work in a way that is freeing and uninhibited. 

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An Interview With Wanda Koop

Whitehot Magazine, by WM Staff
May, 2018

A preeminent figure in contemporary Canadian art, Wanda Koop has been making waves stateside recently for her au courant paintings of silhouetted skylines that comment on the intersection between urbanism and the natural world.

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The Colorful Activism of Wanda Koop

Office Magazine, by Evan Nicole Brown
May 21, 2018

Walking through the space, an intimate and cool respite from the busyness of Bowery just outside, I couldn’t help but think about the impact of color, both in painting and in cultural conversations. Koop, a Winnipeg, Canada native, explains her relationship to cultural color early on: as a young girl, her family lived in close proximity to the Indigenous peoples of Winnipeg, and embraced one Native woman in particular as family.

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Wanda Koop’s Dangerous Paintings

Blake Gopnik on Art
May 7, 2018

THE WEEKLY PIC:For a couple of decades, Wanda Koop has been one of Canada’s most respected painters, but she’s only now getting a solo show in New York, at Arsenal gallery on The Bowery.

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New York Must-See Gallery Exhibitions to See This May

Artnet news
May 1, 2018

Canadian painter Wanda Koop gets her first major New York solo exhibition, showcasing her unique take on landscape painting, informed by globalization and the technological age, as well as the tradition of communal bonfires maintained by the indigenous people of her native Winnipeg

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Héritage inédit de Gilles Carle

Métro, par Érick Rémy
5 avr, 2018

L’œuvre picturale complète du défunt cinéaste Gilles Carle est à vendre. Cela représente 425 œuvres, toiles et dessins tous exposés à l’Arsenal, dans Griffintown.

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Robin Meier and Kim Dorland at Arsenal Contemporary

Whitewall, by Pearl Fontaine
Apr 3, 2018

Arsenal Contemporary in New York is currently presenting a two part exhibitions of Robin Meier’s “Synchronicity” and Kim Dorland‘s “Same Old Future.” Curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler and Jean-Michel Othoniel, it is presented in collaboration with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

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Gilles Carle, comme s'il était là

Mitsou Magazine, par Mitsou Gélinas
31 mar, 2018

Quand Chloé Sainte-Marie me fait une invitation, je n’hésite jamais. Je me lance, j’accours vers le lieu donné. C’est pourquoi j’étais à l’ouverture officielle de l’exposition de l’amour de sa vie, le réalisateur Gilles Carle présentée à l’Arsenal dans Griffintown. 

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L’héritage intégral de Gilles Carle

Journal de Montréal, par Agnés Gaudet
24 mar, 2018

Pour la première fois, l’intégralité de la collection de Chloé Sainte-Marie, des œuvres picturales de Gilles Carle, est accessible au public avec l’exposition Partage et Héritage, présentée à la galerie Arsenal art contemporain;

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Interview: Canadian Painter Kim Dorland On the “Same Old Future”

Juxtapoz, by Sasha Bogojev
Mar 2, 2018

Arsenal Contemporary NY recently partnered with Edythe for an upcoming exhibition featuring works by Canadian painter, Kim Dorland. On view from March 7 through April 22, 2018, Same Old Futures will be part of the gallerys mission to promoting dialogues between Canadian artists and their international contemporaries.

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From a Cy Twombly Celebration to Imaginary Cowboys: 39 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York This March

Artnet, by Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein
Mar 1, 2018

The Edythe and Eli Broad Art Museum in Lansing, Michigan, has teamed up with Arsenal Contemporary to present two solo shows that respond to forests, both as a place of science and of human emotion. Up front Kim Dorland presents 12 paintings of groves of trees, while the back room is dedicated to Robin Meier installation that combines video, music, and light.

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Deliberate Intimacy at Arsenal Contemporary

Office Magazine
Feb 27, 2018

Choreographer and artist Tara-Jo Tashnapresents her innermost vulnerabilities in deliberation, a live performance piece which premiered this past Saturday. The performance likened meditative, emotional healing to the experience of physically washing oneself.

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Lou Dallas, New York Fashion Week's Most Exciting New Label, Exists Because the Designer

W Magazine, by Stephanie Eckardt
Feb 17, 2018 

At first glance, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a reason why the artsy crowd gathered at the downtown gallery Arsenal Contemporary during New York Fashion Week on Tuesday to watch a parade of models decked out in oversized bows and Renaissance-like corsets would have any connection at all to Bruce Willis.

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