C: International Contemporary Art articles from February 1999

C: International Contemporary Art archives from February 1999

Scattered across the floor: ... the sculpture of Colleen Wolstenholme.
February 1, 1999... Sculpture is scattered across the gallery floor, large plaster replicas of prescription pills. Mostly sedatives and anti-depressants, they are objects with soothing, wellness-designed names: Paxil and Prozac, Valium, Xanax and Zoloft, names...

Chris Ofill (exhibition).
February 1, 1999... Serpentine Gallery, London The distinctions of London-based painter Chris Ofili are multifold. The only black member of the YBAs (Young British Artists) currently dominating the British art scene, he is also the first painter in over a...

Letter from London (Eng. contemporary art exhibitions).
February 1, 1999... February 1999 As London's art scene accelerated into winter the Royal Academy trembles with treasures: Picasso's unrehearsed pottery; contrastingly meticulous ceramic masterpieces from China; and over 600 paintings by Charlotte Salomon -...

Letter from Toronto (contemporary art exhibitions).
February 1, 1999... February 1999 As if to confirm my suspicion that a disproportionate number of local artists are revisiting their childhoods these days, an invitation to "KINDERspiel" (closed Jan. 16) arrived in the mail. The exhibition, curated by Jessica...

Eldon Garnet (exhibition).
February 1, 1999... Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography nestles against the side of Ottawa's most elegant hotel, the Chateau Laurier, and looks out across the Rideau Canal at Parliament Hill. In...

Rules of the game: ... Gerard Collins's work ethic.
February 1, 1999... Gerard Collins's Work Ethic series is the latest example in a practice of rules-based painting that he has pursued since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design fifteen years ago. In his exhibition statement for the show,...

Manifest destiny: 5 modest reactions.
February 1, 1999... Last fall at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, in suburban southern Ontario, beauty appeared in forms delicate, decorative and decidely masculine. Curator Stuart Reid's five-man presentation provided a context in which the complex delights of...

Letter from Montreal (contemporary art exhibitions).
February 1, 1999... February 1999 In the last issue of C I talked about the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and the way this museum has radically challenged how we look at architecture and its history. The CCA lives up to this standard once again with...

Gisele Amantea (exhibition).
February 1, 1999... Oboro, Montreal Amantea's exhibition, titled "Dearest," offers five works that circle loosely around the themes of love, emotion and obsession. The four pieces in the main gallery consist of images and text rendered in paint and flock over...

Letter from Calgary (contemporary art exhibitions).
February 1, 1999... February 1999 Here, at this time of year, there are only two types of people: skiiers and shut-ins. At least shuting like me can take comfort and find refuge in the perennial gardens that are the art galleries. Before leaving the...

Mowry Baden (exhibition).
February 1, 1999... Open Space and Rogue Art Gallery, Victoria This fall marked the presentation of a ten-year retrospective of Baden's work at various sites in Victoria. Co-curated by Lauren Schaffer and Brenda Petays, the event consisted of an exhibition of...

You're in my space (exhibition).
February 1, 1999... Chicago Cultural Center In an ongoing programme sponsored by the Little City Foundation's Multidisciplinary Arts Center, developmentally challenged artists collaborate with established artists to produce work in a range of media. Last...

Letter from Chicago (contemporary art exhibitions).
February 1, 1999... February 1999 "Culture Bag," the title of Alfons Koller's exhibition at ARC (closed Nov. 28), was the latest chapter in the artist's ongoing project, Multifunctional Conceptual Systems of Art, and an apt summation of the season's eclectic...

Ecurring images: historical photography as contemporary art.
February 1, 1999... A full eighteen years has passed since artist Sherrie Levine rephotographed works by master photographers Walker Evans, Eliot Porter and Andreas Feininger and claimed the results for her own. Since then, appropriating and restaging photographs...

Letter from Halifax (contemporary art exhibition).
February 1, 1999... February 1999 When the weather outside is frightful, Haligonians have been huddling indoors watching video. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia showed the National Gallery's touring Canadian video survey, "Fragile Electrons" (closed Feb. 7),...

Gerald Ferguson & Arnaud Maggs (exhibition).
February 1, 1999... Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax In French, one calls a still life nature morte. Stilled lives and dead nature link this pair of solo exhibitions by senior artists with conceptually-based practices. Gerald Ferguson...

Letter from New York (contemporary art exhibition).
February 1, 1999... February 1999 As the indisputable centre of the New York art scene, Chelsea is sprouting galleries faster than budding leaves on a kudzu plant. Often with gallery walls only partially sheetrocked and building entrances in transition...

Jackson Pollock (exhibition).
February 1, 1999... Museum of Modern Art, New York In the years between 1947 and 1950, a young painter whose work originated in a unique synthesis of Picasso's cubism, Miro's surrealism, Thomas Hart Benton's realism, and Native American art, forever changed...