A travelling exhibition that began at Vancouver's Presentation House, POLAROIDS: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris, has arrived at Calgary's Illingworth Kerr Gallery until March 13. Members of the Calgary community may remember Attila Richard Lukacs' immodest public 'lecture' given some years ago when he -stark naked- presented a slide-show of his tropical mother-son vacation to a piercing metal music accompaniment. Lukacs returns to the college with artist/curator Michael...
Chris Millar is a creator of self-sustaining worlds. His latest work "Bejeweled Double Festooned Plus Skull for Girls" is a magically suspended toy-making bubble hovering over China. The complexity of...
Posted by Andrea Williamson on December 22, 2009 (795 words)
The books we encounter and live with, particularly the antique or flea-market find, eventually take on a knowingness and even a gaze. These books not only link to the past...
Posted by Kim Neudorf on November 26, 2009 (799 words)
In the recent history of feminist art in North America, fraught as it is with controversy, tension, and cognizant dissent, artist Judy Chicago has gained a reputation as a maverick....
Posted by Tabitha Minns on October 27, 2009 (1050 words)
Toronto painter Kim Dorland recently showed Calgary viewers his latest paintings from a residency in Emma Lake, Saskatchewan. The glowing paintings showed off well in the natural light of Skew...
Posted by Andrea Williamson on October 16, 2009 (634 words)
Draw softly and carry a big brush. In Mark Mullin's current solo show, Fictitious Device, the artist puts a new spin on Theodore Roosevelt`s Big Stick Ideology. Mullin`s diplomatic wanderings...
Posted by Viviane Mehr on October 2, 2009 (580 words)