Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Manon Labrecque
June 18, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — The artist’s body as a site for the investigation of the internal dualities of the self is the subject of a compelling exhibition of video projections, kinetic sculptures, and drawings by Montreal artist Manon Labrecque…
Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Michael Schreier
[Spring 2010] The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa September 10 to November 15, 2009. Disquieting, painterly, poetic – these words come to mind on viewing Michael Schreier’s series of large-scale grey/blue/purple semi-abstract photographs, Disappearing Numbers (2007-20-09), and Or-Sarua (2009), which portray empty bunker-like interiors quietly resonating with a sense of tragedy. Despite their softened forms and […]
Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Gregory Crewdson, Michael Snow, Paul Outerbridge Jr., Yasumasa Morimura
[Fall 2007] National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa June 16 – October 1, 2006 The exhibition’s introductory panel included the statement, “In the last 20 years the staged photograph has occupied a prominent place in the broader world of contemporary art, straddling the borders that traditionally separated photography from other media.” Accordingly, Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Robert Frank
[Fall 2002] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography June 22–September 12, 2002 Organized by the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, in cooperation with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. One of the greatest pleasures of this exhibition was to see Robert Frank’s photoworks in the context of his moving images and to experience […]