Erin Shirreff, Midday dilemma at Bradley Ertaskiran from June 8 to July 16, 2022
“The works on view in the exhibition are each grounded in the visual archive of 20th-century Western art history, a source Shirreff has used either directly or indirectly in sculpture, video, and photography for several years. Shirreff uses this material—images of objects meant for contemplation—not for critique or homage, but to explore our experience of looking and the peculiar expressiveness of objects rendered in two dimensions.”
Marco Brambilla, Heaven’s Gate at Centre Phi from June 30 to October 24, 2022
“Heaven's Gate is a monumental new work by videographer Marco Brambilla. Seen as a grandiose, satirical and dizzying meditation on Hollywood's dream factory, Heaven's Gate is a psychedelic digital tableau inspired by the Seven Levels of Purgatory that employs the same state-of-the-art digital composition technology as the films it references.”
Baruch Gottlieb, Feedback #6: Marshall McLuhan and the arts at Fonderie Darling from March 17 to August 14, 2022
“Feedback: Marshall McLuhan and the arts is part of a series of recursive exhibitions and public programs focusing on Marshall McLuhan's radical thinking about media and technology, and his innovative performative and publishing practices. McLuhan was a new type of scholar for the electronic age who saw that art has a unique capacity for comprehending the powers of media. Artists, he believed, acted as radars that allowed the public to grasp the imperceptible psychic, sensory and social effects of technologies. Disregarding peer review processes, McLuhan published his ideas experimentally, often collaboratively in the popular press, testing for reactions. This active, “live” scholarship” was roundly scorned by many of his academic colleagues, admiringly envious of the dynamism of his ideas and the seeming endless appetite for them in the mass-media. McLuhan allowed himself to be taken up in the media, and the media rewarded him with fame.”
Danny Gretscher, The Present is a Gift at Galerie C.O.A. from June 16 to July 23, 2022
"Gretscher’s work is at the crossroads of the abstract and the figurative, he often creates large formats with acrylic and pencil on wood panels. It is as difficult to escape the magic of Danny Gretscher’s painting as it is to describe it, as he devotes himself to an ethereal, immediate and intangible subject."
Group Exhibition, Fresh paint and new construction 2022 at Art Mûr from July 16 – August 27, 2022
Isadora Alcindor-Limoges, Maxime Boisvert-Huneault, Nicole Boyce, Élyse Brodeur-Magna, Sonia Chow, Colin Courtney, Mathilde Demoli, Jessie Donaldson, Jessy Duchaine, Marie-Danielle Duval, Anam Feerasta, Megan Fitzgerald, Jennifer Fong, Abby Gatbonton, Emy Gagnon Gélinas, Faustine Gruninger, Kellyann Henderson, Jazz Keillor, Sophia Kyungwon Kim, Corynn Kokolakis, Mathieu Lapierre, Laurence Lapointe-Roy, Teal Leacock, Hiroshi Nakatsugawa, Brooklyn Payne, Fanny-Jane Pelletier, Alex Ranger, Marie-Pierre Ranger, Erienne Rennick, Emerald Repard-Denniston, Madeline Richards, James Russell, Majd Shammas, Netsanet Shawl, Kasia Sosnowski, Senka Stankovic, Caleigh Stillwater, Stanley Wany.
Group Exhibition, War, What Is It Good For, Absolutely Nothing. (Resistance) at Galerie Laroche Joncas from June 18 to August 6, 2022
Anonymous Native American Artists, Ted Barker, Asia Bazdyrieva, Lisa Biletska, Henry John Bird, Katya Buchatska, Borys Filonenko, Frankie Gardiner, ist publishing (Kyiv), Stephen Lack, Antoine Larocque, Craig Leonard, Katya Libkind, Christian Messier, Jean-Marc Nahas, Natalie Olanick, Philip Olenyk, Mike Patten, Claude Simard, Stanislav Turina, Dana Velan, Utagawa Yoshifusa, Istan Zsako
Group Exhibition, ALT at Galerie Robertson Arès from June 11-August 6, 2022
“The term ALT denotes a version of something that is intended as a challenge to the traditional. Short for alternative, which is ultimately derived from the Latin word alter, meaning « other », alt refers to the unusual. On view from June 11th to August 6th, this show celebrates peculiarity in all its weirdness and glory.”
Betty Goodwin and Roger Bellemare, La Maison Gunther - Extraits at Galeries Roger Bellemare et Christian Lambert from June 11 to August 27, 2022
"We had, Betty Goodwin and I, among other affinities, an affection for collectible dolls. To each we assigned identities: Jessica, Gretchen, Bela, Georgina. Betty photographed or drew them and occasionally exhibited them at the gallery. For its third performance, the works of “Gunther House – Excerpts” will be presented at the gallery. This time, Roger Bellemare’s production is accompanied by photos of dolls taken by Goodwin and her own drawings from the gallery’s collection."
