Heather & Ivan Morison, Ian Wallace & More

You are receiving this email because the email address omsstraffic.2222@blogger.com was subscribed to our email list. Click here to unsubscribe. If you have been forwarded this message by a friend opt in here. Having trouble reading this email? View it on our website.               SUBSCRIBE TO CANADIAN ART MAGAZINE Canadian Art is a striking in-depth quarterly covering key artists, exhibitions, scene-shapers and trends both nationally and internationally. Don't miss an issue. GET THE DIGITAL EDITION Experience Canadian Art's all-new, ultraportable digital edition. FORWARD TO A FRIEND Want your friends to be in the loop? Forward up to five copies of the Weekly at once. SIGN UP Were you forwarded the Weekly by a friend? Sign up now to get it free in your inbox each Thursday. SUBMIT A LISTING Our weekly opening and event listings are selected from press material sent to preview@canadianart.ca. To ensure inclusion of your information, please send notices at least two weeks in advance of your event. IMAGE CREDITS (From top to bottom) HEATHER AND IVAN MORISON Plaza  2010  Installation view Courtesy the artists and Clint Roenisch Gallery / photo Rachel Topham IAN WALLACE Abstract Painting III (The Financial District)  2010 Courtesy Catriona Jeffries Gallery and Yvon Lambert Paris New York ERIC FISCHL Untitled 2010 Courtesy Barbara Edwards Contemporary DAVE AND JENN But We Were Watching 2009 Courtesy the artists and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts DIL HILDEBRAND Studio D  2010  Courtesy Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain Heather and Ivan Morison Blueprint for Happy Endings UK artists (and Venice Biennale alums) Heather and Ivan Morison are known for their uncanny, semi-optimistic approaches to a dismal future. As Danielle Egan reports, their new public work in Vancouver continues this practice—often transfixingly so. Read more…   Ian Wallace Capital Ideas This week, the Power Plant unveils a major show of commissions by Ian Wallace, the Vancouver artist who pioneered West Coast conceptual photography. It it, Wallace focuses on Bay Street, Canada’s financial hub, and the economy of images themselves. Read more…     Eric Fischl In Deep Water Celebrated New York artist Eric Fischl has numerous Canadian ties, from his teaching at NSCAD in the 1970s to his current exhibition at Toronto’s Barbara Edwards Contemporary. David Balzer reviews the latter, finding languid, elegant watercolours. Read more…     Softcore Hard Edge The Power of Suggestion This fall, the Art Gallery of Calgary tries to sex up issues of abstraction in painting with “Softcore Hard Edge,” an exhibition that marries painters from Calgary and Los Angeles. Co-curated by LA Times critic David Pagel, the show references both porn and pastiche. Read more…     Dil Hildebrand Studio Theatre The title for Dil Hildebrand’s latest exhibition, “Peepshow,” references topsy-turvy imagery seen through a tiny aperture. As James D. Campbell observes, the show extends Hildebrand’s practice of spry painterly abandon and beguiling spatial innovation. Read more…       Openings & Events Highlights October 7 to 13 07.10.2010 VANCOUVER Mark Boulos opening 8-10pm Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery 1825 Main Mall 08.10.2010 MONTREAL Jon Pylypchuk/Sobey Award openings 6pm MACM 185 rue Ste Catherine O 08.10.2010 TORONTO Alex Soth lecture 12-1:30pm 171 E Liberty St 08.10.2010 TORONTO Ian Wallace/Pae White openings 8-11pm Power Plant 231 Queens Quay W 09.10.2010 VANCOUVER Dana Claxton/Thaddeus Holownia openings 2-4pm Winsor Gallery 3025 Granville St Continue here for our complete listings of art openings and events happening this week from coast to coast.     The Canadian Art Foundation is delighted to announce the winning projects for the 2010 Youth Arts Bursary This year’s winners are the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, which will develop downloadable artworks with high school students; the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, which will work on collaborative drawing installations with youth; and the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Cooperative in Halifax, which will do animation-art outreach in underserved communities. The Youth Arts Bursary program awards grants to public galleries and artist-run centres across Canada for education initiatives which allow artists to share skills and knowledge with youths aged 5 to 18. For more information, please see our related program page. (Image: Artist Jim Holyoak working on the collaborative drawing Greyscale Rainbow. Courtesy the artist and Matt Shane.)   This email was sent to omsstraffic.2222@blogger.com Click here to unsubscribe.   Canadian Art (416) 368-8854 canadianart.ca