5 Perspectives on Maureen Gruben’s Connection to Place by IAQ Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award shortlister Maureen Gruben is no stranger to accolades. Since 2017, Gruben’s visibility as a leading Canadian artist has only continued to grow exponentially with major exhibitions, acquisitions and prizes filling her CV. But this now-global public recognition only tells part of her story. […] To view the full article visit Inuit Art. For more information about Maureen Gruben …
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The Freshman Class of Art Basel: Meet 7 Dealers Making Their Debut at the 2023 Swiss Fair by Julie Baumgardner Cooper Cole Location: Toronto, Canada Founded: 2011 Founder: Simon Cole Vibe: Canadian and cool In Basel: Cooper Cole is on a roll. The Toronto outfit is showing the Afghan-Canadian artist Hangama Amiri, fresh off a show-stopper exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, in the fair’s Statements section. The artist, who utilizes textiles to “reflect on ideas of …
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G.B. Jones at Cooper Cole – Issue 12 By Dallas Fellini As we enter the gallery, we’re greeted by the artist’s name, spelled out sloppily across the stark white wall in a two-tone, drop-shadow tag: G-B-J-O- N-E-S. “Are you familiar with the artist?” a member of the gallery staff asks. Like any good queers who grew up on the internet, my friends and I spent years online acquainting ourselves with …
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8 Women Artists Using Ceramics to Subvert Art Traditions By Lydia Wilford Brie Ruais’s work expands the notion of corporeally oriented ceramics. ‘‘The sculptures tap into the body’s knowledge as opposed to the mind. I let the body and clay lead,” Ruais said in the press release for “Some Things I Know About Being In A Body”, her 2021 solo show at Albertz Benda. This tenet is expressed best in Intertwining Bodies, Roots, …
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10 Must-See Shows at Paris Gallery Weekend 2023 By Wilson Tarbox Jagdeep Raina, ‘Towards the valley’ Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris Apr. 20 – June 3 In his debut solo exhibition in France, Canadian artist Jagdeep Raina showcases his fascination with diverse textile techniques including Punjabi embroidery, or phulkari. Through his remarkable skill of painting images with colored threads, Raina aims to preserve endangered ancestral crafts, challenge gender stereotypes in textile art, and confront …
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This new exhibition wants you to know legendary poet Rumi ‘as a once-living person’ By Chris Dart Rumi, who was born Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī, is best known as a poet, writer and religious scholar. What’s less well known is that, in modern terms, he grew up as a refugee. Rumi was born in 1207 on what is now the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan. When he was still a …
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Editors’ picks: Five exhibitions to see in May By Art Basel’s Editorial team Every six weeks, members of Art Basel’s Editorial team pick their favorite exhibitions across the globe. Here are five shows not to miss in May. Jagdeep Raina ‘Towards the valley’ Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris Until June 3, 2023 In this subtle show, Canadian artist Jagdeep Raina presents recent embroideries, quilts, and works on paper. Born in Canada, …
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Artists of the Asian diaspora turn hybridity into resilience at Art Basel By Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Among the 18 artists showing in Statements at Art Basel in Basel this year are Baseera Khan, Hardeep Pandhal, and Hangama Amiri. Each artist harnesses their diasporic identity to explore experiences of hybridity and disaffection. […] Textiles are likewise loaded with notions of belonging and displacement for Hangama Amiri. Sewing was a constant activity in …
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Eve Tagny Interviewed by Heather Canlas Rigg By Heather Canlas Rigg I first encountered Eve Tagny’s work a number of years ago at Xpace Gallery in Toronto. The gallery walls were lined with a curtain of clear plastic sheets that had sporadic pockets holding dried flowers, rocks, and leaves. In the center of the room was a large pile of soil; within this was a screen that looped a video of …
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Critics’ Picks Scott Treleaven at Cooper Cole By Brandon Kaufman Between 1996 and 1999, Scott Treleaven produced the influential zine This Is the Salivation Army, which often featured violent, black-and-white collages of male bodies piled on top of one another. The artist would treat each twink’s nubile torso with Eucharistic solemnity; like William S. Burroughs and David Wojnarowicz before him, he found in homosexuality both the exquisitely seraphic and the utterly …
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