Tag Archives: contemporary art
Edward Burtynsky at the McCord
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky doesn’t want to convey a political message with his large-format photographs. His exhibition Oil touring internationally and currently on view at Montreal’s McCord Museum, brings together over 50 awe inspiring large-scale photographs documenting the ‘life cycle’ … Continue reading
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The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Big Bang
The term ‘Big Bang’ refers to the hot, dense state that cause a rapid expansion of the universe bringing us to where we are now living on planet earth. This very notion inspired the Museum of Fine Arts for the … Continue reading
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Quebec’s thriving Art Scene
Organized by the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, the Québec Triennial, is situated in its spacious high-ceilinged modern building with bare white walls and no architectural frills – puts a spotlight on Quebec, showing artworks so delightful and of such … Continue reading
Filed under art, art exhibitions, conceptual art, contemporary art, culture, Montreal
Skullphone @ Subliminal Projects
I didn’t expect to have to wait in a line to attend Skullphone‘s Digital Media art opening at Subliminal Projects, but I did. The Los Angeles based street artist, Skullphone became a sensation in 2008, when he supposedly ‘hacked’ into Los … Continue reading
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Art is Life: Tim Hawkinson at Blum & Poe
I first saw a major Tim Hawkinson exhibition at the Whitney in 2005. The exhibition traced Hawkinson’s steady evolution in meticulously detailed drawings, minute constructions, inflated latex casts, and uncanny mechanical contraptions. Here, I discovered that Tim Hawkinson’s large-scale kinetic … Continue reading
A step in the right direction
I am transplant to Los Angeles from Vancouver. This is why the photography exhibition Transplants, from 10 non-indigenous Angelenos at THIS Los Angeles gallery caught my attention. The photographers exhibited in Transplants are all young, award-winning artists with varying degrees of technical … Continue reading
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A New Horizon: Seascapes by Catherine Opie
Best known for her mid 1990′s series of portraits of individuals and couples from the queer, S&M and other communities, including several notorious self-portraits, Catherine Opie gave new visibility to marginalized subcultures helping define a charged current of “identity politics” … Continue reading
Tara Donovan at San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art
While passing through San Diego last weekend, I had the opportunity to view Tara Donovan’s awe-inspiring exhibition (October 25, 2009 – February 28, 2010) at the MCASD. Untitled, styrofoam cups with hot glue In the artist’s hands, common, mass-produced items … Continue reading
Filed under art exhibitions, art history, Minimalist, San Diego, Tara Donovan
Read it. Loath it. Love it. Forget it. “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic”
Art collector, gallery owner and founder of the global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi is famously publicity – shy, a reluctant interviewee who never attends his own gallery openings, or anyone else’s for the matter. This book brings together his unflinching … Continue reading
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