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Hi, Art!

Sunday, August 18, 2024
Hi, Art!

Sunday, August 18, 2024

Hi, art lovers!
 
In a hall with high ceilings, an abstract sculpture of birds sits in the foreground, with groups of seating installed around the room and a brightly coloured mural in the background.

(Gander International Airport)
 
The “out of office” reply is one of the true signs of summer, and I’ve been seeing plenty of them in my inbox lately. Here’s to summer holidays, folks! I just returned from a brief staycation myself, in case you were wondering what happened to last Sunday’s email, and while I was away, CBC Arts basically took a cross-country trip without me. We heard from the stars of three (!!!) open-air productions of Hamlet (in Toronto, Vancouver and Saskatoon), went on an adventure with Ottawa’s Black in Nature day camp, and took a guided tour of “the most important modernist room in Canada” — the Gander International Airport departures lounge. I would love to see that spot in person. If only there were more days left in the season! Are there any arts attractions on your summer road-trip bucket list? Let me know. Our team’s been making a giant list of them, but more on that next time …
 

Because we promised you eye candy ...
 
Photo of surreal sculpture on a white plinth in a white room. The form is of disembodied human legs, encased in white translucent fabric and stuffed with drying wildflowers. The tops of the flowers spill out of the tops of the legs. The limbs are hung on red harnesses and are positioned as though walking slowly, toes dragging with a step.

Elisabeth Perrault
Dragging your feet this morning? Here’s something for you by Elisabeth Perrault. Her work is appearing at the MACB in Sherbrooke, Que.
 
Abstract painting in pastel pink shades on a blue field.

Marie-Claude Lacroix
Ghosts (Part 1). Oil painting by Marie-Claude Lacroix.
 
Abstract painting in shades of blue, green, yellow and orange.

Kathryn Greenwood
Barbed Shroud by Victoria-based artist Kathryn Greenwood.
 
Detail of a quilt assembled from fabric squares and rectanges. The inner border is embroidered with walking human figures.

Jillian Tamaki
You probably know her as an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, but Jillian Tamaki made this quilt! This is just a detail of it (I love the little embroidered figures), but you can see the whole thing — plus more of Jillian’s abstract textile art — at Hearth in Toronto. The show’s not up for long though. It closes August 22.
 
Photo of a person with long dark hair wearing a yellow T-shirt and black pants, standing in a room filled with an art installation. The wall behind them is painted wit a mural of dozens of cherubs, all in red. They surround a cartoonish giant eye. A sculpture of a surreal figure, all red and white, is at the centre of the room. A short white platform covered with tiny sculptures of severed heads is in front of the main figure. The floor is decorated with tea-light candles.

Onsite Gallery
Also in Toronto: Onsite Gallery recently unveiled this installation by visiting Filipino artist Doktor Karayom. It’s called No One’s at Home (Walang Tao Sa Bahay) and it “brings to life the dynamic energies within a home through lively and imagined personas.”
 
 

You've got to see this
 
 
 
Two people stand on the porch of a house. The exterior wall has been painted with a mural of a neon cartoon tiger.
Stephanie Avery

Toronto’s newest immersive gallery is an old house marked for demolition
 
More than 30 local artists have transformed the property, and today’s the last day to see it in person. 
 
A woman wearing sunglasses and a man in a t-shirt stand inside the back of a trailer which has been converted into an art gallery.
Sarah Swan

'We turned a trailer into an art gallery and drove it around the N.W.T.'
 
Fasten your seatbelt. Curator Sarah Swan will tell you the story of how the Art Gallery of NWT brought art to the people.
 
Four people in white shirts stand in front of stone columns.

Peter Noble
 

Toronto's favourite filming location?
 
If you’ve seen this Drake video — or remember this throwback from Martha and the Muffins — you’re already familiar with Guild Park and Gardens. Discover why this suburban park is a Canadian arts attraction like no other.
 

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Miruna Drăgan
@miruna.roxana.dragan
Abstract pattern in pastel-tones.

Miruna Drăgan
On the subject of Cancon nostalgia, remember Tom Cochrane’s “Life Is a Highway”? That old music video was shot in Alberta’s Rosebud River Valley, just outside of Drumheller — in the same spot where Miruna now lives, in fact. She shared that bit of trivia when we spoke to her for this article about Doris, a gallery in northern Alberta that’s attracting artists from all over the province and beyond.
 

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I’m Leah Collins, senior writer at CBC Arts. Until next time!
 
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