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Jolie Bird | Extended Long Play

Jolie Bird‘s MFA Thesis show Extended Long Play is at the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax for only a couple more days. By wrapping ordinary consumer objects with thin, mercerized cotton thread, I am creating a fictitious testament of the … Continue reading

04. April 2013 by Mackenzie Frère
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The News From Here: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art

This past weekend I attended the opening of The News From Here: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art at the AGA in Edmonton. According to guest-curator Nancy Tousley, Alberta artists, working in the second decade of the 21st century, … Continue reading

28. January 2013 by Mackenzie Frère
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Ann Hamilton | the event of a thread

Visual artist Ann Hamilton combines the ephemeral presence of time with the material tactility for which she is best known to create a new large-scale installation for the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Commissioned by the Armory, the event of a thread references … Continue reading

17. January 2013 by Mackenzie Frère
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Pauline Macura Brown | Wounds, Scars, Recovery

My work is informed by an exploration of my own identity as a first generation Canadian of Polish ancestry, an ancestry that has been overshadowed by my father’s WWII experience. As with many war veterans’ offspring: the second generation of … Continue reading

13. November 2012 by Mackenzie Frère
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ACAD Faculty Exhibit opens Thursday

The annual faculty exhibition at ACAD opens this Thursday November 15 and runs until December 8. Join me for the opening reception after 5 pm. I have not been posting a lot lately. Happily this is due to getting some … Continue reading

12. November 2012 by Mackenzie Frère
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Folly: Château Mathieu

Folly: Château Mathieu opens later this month at the Esplanade Art Gallery in Medicine Hat. In the summer of 2009, Alberta artists M.N. Hutchinson, Walter May, Gloria Mok, Greg Payce, Laura Vickerson and visual arts writer/curator Diana Sherlock received a … Continue reading

16. September 2012 by Mackenzie Frère
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Ehryn Torrell | Self-Similar

Ehryn Torrell‘s exhibition Self Similar opens this Friday at St. Mary’s University Art Gallery In her solo exhibition, Self-Similar, Ehryn Torrell’s large paintings and drawings incorporate visual elements of collapsed and derelict structures, and of remembered cityscapes. Using the lens of the … Continue reading

13. September 2012 by Mackenzie Frère
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Last night at Stride Gallery…

Bill Morton’s exhibition Tinctorium is at Stride Gallery until October 19, 2012.

08. September 2012 by Mackenzie Frère
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Bill Morton | Tinctorium

Bill Morton’s exhibition Tinctorium opens tomorrow night at 8 pm at Stride Gallery in Calgary, Alberta and runs until October 19, 2012. I feel privileged to have contributed a text for this exhibition of work by my friend and mentor Bill Morton. Bill … Continue reading

06. September 2012 by Mackenzie Frère
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Suzen Green | The Mummers Party

THE MUMMERS PARTY combines theatrical staging with sculptural knitted installation in an invested exploration of cultural identity, folklore and craft practice. Referring to the traditional folk practice of mumming, a lively and often drunken affair made popular in Newfoundland & … Continue reading

06. September 2012 by Mackenzie Frère
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