A Journey Exposed
A Journey Exposed (2014) is a collection of artworks in which Gu Xiong uses repeated exposure of our memories to gain new insights, with the struggle between individuality and globalization as a central theme. Crushed Coca-Cola Cans symbolizes rebirth as the mass-produced can, in the process of being destroyed, finds a new life as a […]
Germaine Koh: Weather Systems
Germaine Koh is a Vancouver-based artist whose work relates natural and human systems by focusing on the inter-relatedness of conditions in the built and natural environment. Koh’s work often links the space of the gallery with the outside environment or actively intervenes in the institution to reveal tensions between the public and private realms. Through […]
From Still Life to the Screen
Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation …
Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For
Essay contribution by T’ai Smith in Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, edited by Kathleen Nugent Mangan. Philadelphia : University of Arts ; Baltimore : Maryland Institute College of Art, 2013 Book information: Catalog of a collaborative exhibition held at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, December 7, 2012 through March 17, 2013, and The University […]
Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ḳi-ḳe-in, eds. Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2013 Book information: The Northwest Coast of North America has long been recognized as one of the world’s canonical art zones. Since the mid-1700s, objects or “art” deriving from the Indigenous cultures of […]