Visual Arts Reviews

While walking through Esther Shalev-Gerz’s exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, it’s difficult to resist a biographical reading of the films, videos, still photographs, text, and sculpture on view.
Nathan Coley often uses found objects, images, and text to explore how social and political convictions may also be imposed upon our urban surroundings—or erased from it.
Liz Magor has an astonishing ability to surprise her viewers, often by undermining any assumptions we might have about what exactly it is she does.
The images and ideas behind Arvo Leo's intertwined installation and film were created during his travels through India in late 2009 and early 2010.
Lyse Lemieux's abstracted figurative and portrait drawings, sometimes collaged with pieces of fabric, hang at Republic Gallery.
Australian potter Gwyn Hanssen Pigott was invited by MOA to look through its collection, which encompasses 38,000 objects from across vast expanses of time and place, and invent arrangements for some of them.
Any lover of fashion or photography will find Frank Horvat’s solo retrospective, Horvat: Fashion, worth the visit.
What this show reveals is the way humour can function as a powerful antidote to colonialism.