Elizabeth Zvonar

Daniel Faria Gallery

June 2013

“Banal Baroque,” Elizabeth Zvonar’s current exhibition of sculpture and collage, riffs on themes of bodily and sexual excess, recontextualizing mass-produced objects, magazine advertisements, and mannequin parts to animate the uncanny… READ ON

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David Askevold

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

May 2013

If there remains any doubt that a goofy sense of humor and amateurish enthusiasm—alongside a reliance on rational systems and a dry self-referentiality—underpinned much of the conceptual art produced in the 1960s and ’70s, this … READ ON

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Jon Sasaki

Jessica Bradley

February 2013

Jon Sasaki has perfected the persona of the eternally optimistic everyman in his video and performance works over the past several years. In his latest exhibition, he turns his conceptually inflected wit to the messy particulate matter that… READ ON

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Jason de Haan

Clint Roenisch Gallery

April 2012

Jason de Haan’s solo show takes its title, “Year Zero,” from a moment in time that does not exist. The term is absent from the traditional Anno Domini calendar system but is used by astronomers and science fiction authors to denote a … READ ON

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Valérie Blass

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

February 2012

Valérie Blass’s clever sculptures engage viewers in an engrossing but disconcerting guessing game, suggesting familiar forms while purposefully resisting easy recognition. Comprising almost thirty works, Blass’s largest exhibition to … READ ON

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“Coming After”

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery

January 2012

Spanning installation, drawing, photography, performance, and video, this ambitious exhibition brings together sixteen artists—almost all of whom were born after 1970—whose works reflect on the period of queer radicalism witnessed in … READ ON

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Didier Courbot

November 2011

A relentless but fraught optimism informs Didier Courbot’s works. In his latest suite of eight large-scale color photographs, the French artist documents a series of actions he carried out in Parisian streets. On encountering discarded … READ ON

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Barbara Astman

October 2011

Barbara Astman’s latest series of photographs, all reproductions of collages, takes the artist’s long-standing interest in the circulation of iconic public images into the rich territory of the quotidian. Astman collected the images … READ ON

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