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Friday, June 27, 2025
Hi, Art!

Friday, June 27, 2025

Hi, art lovers!
 
Graphic for CBC Canada Day programming. Text on a white background reads CBC Canada Day. Text is framed by pattern of geometric shapes which reference a deconstructed CBC gem. Small 2D icons of Canadian wildlife, landscape and objects also feature in the pattern. Icons include: moose, loon, mountains, beaver, deck chair, trees, tent, lobster, maple syrup, polar bear, feather, fishing rod.

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Canada Day is almost here, and the CBC will be bringing the party directly to you. For info on what’s happening, this programming guide is all that and a bag of ketchup chips. But the grand finale is a concert special featuring performances from Ottawa, Vancouver, Yellowknife and Summerside, P.E.I. The lineup is basically a CBC Music listicle brought to life, and several of the acts have appeared on Q, including Randy Bachman, Amanda Marshall, Blue Rodeo and Sarah McLachlan (who just last week announced her first album in nine years). The show starts at 8 p.m. ET (9 p.m. AT/9:30 p.m. NT) and will stream on all CBC platforms, including the CBC News YouTube channel.
 

Because we promised you eye candy ...
 
Photo of artwork installed in a grassy lawn. It creates the illusion of a small circular puddle filled with a ghostly moth.

Artwork: SK Maston; Photo: Garden Variety
When we ran this story about home galleries hiding in plain sight, it felt as if summer was a billion years away. And if you, like me, bookmarked Garden Variety for your summer to-do list, here’s an important reminder: its 2025 season launches Saturday, July 5, in Toronto. The outdoor exhibition will feature work by Leeay Aikawa, Danan Lake and Joy Wong. This photo, however, is from Garden Variety’s inaugural event in 2021. It’s a piece called Waterhold by SK Maston.
 
Textural painted relief sculpture hangs on a white wall. Colour palette is pastel shades of blue, orange, pink and green.

Erin Frances Brown
From Garden Variety to Garden Nebula. This painted relief sculpture is by Erin Frances Brown. See more of her work at 226 Main Street Gallery in Winnipeg, July 25 to Aug. 4
 
Painting in a classical style. Depicts a surreal scene. The backdrop is similar to a unicorn tapestry: a field of flowers with circular fenced pens. Two disembodied forms are in the foreground, similar to collage cut-outs taken from classical figures. Both depict flowing beige capes and hands in posed gestures.

Artwork: Jennifer Carvalho; Photo: LF Documentation/Franz Kaka
Jennifer Carvalho (last seen here) opened a solo exhibition at CICA Vancouver last week. An Archive of Gestures is there through Aug. 10.
 
Black and white illustration in a slightly surreal style. A female figure appears to take shelter below a canopy or umbrella covered with flowers and butterflies and heavy raindrops streak across the sky.

Karen Shangguan
One more item from the West Coast: the Vancouver Art Book Fair returns July 4 to 6, and local illustrator Karen Shangguan is among the many artists and publishers who’ll be tabling their wares. Pictured: The Other Side (of Eternity). 
 
 

You've got to see this
 
 
 
A group of five people in office attire peer over the top of a yellow bathroom stall.
Kristy Boyce

Canada’s next hit musical, coming soon to the Toronto Fringe?
 
A slate of original shows will take over a single venue thanks to the newly formed Alliance for Canadian Musicals. For those chasing Broadway dreams, the platform is a welcome addition.
 
Comic book illustration. A muscle-bound masked character wearing a lime green hoodie grits his teeth while being crushed under the weight of some unseen object.
Steve McNiven, Wordburglar

This rapper wanted to make ‘the Watchmen of rhyming comic books’
 
For Wordburglar’s latest project, the Halifax-born Toronto-based rapper has assembled a crack team of Canadian comic artists.
 
Portrait of the artist Karen Tam. A person of Asian descent, she is wearing a red patterned dress and reclines on the floor while resting her arm on a chair draped in red and gold brocade. The walls of the room are decorated with a bamboo forest mural and ornate panels.

May Truong
 

There's no place like Chinatown
 
Karen Tam creates installation art that channels the sights and sounds of Chinatown. These environments are meant to evoke rich cultural memories, and the Montreal-based artist recently unveiled a new project at the Liverpool Biennial.
 

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Photo taken inside an elevator. The walls are colvered with colourful patterned quilts.

Artwork: Justin Ming Yong; Photo: LF Documentation
It’s not moving day at MOCA Toronto, but that’s definitely what Justin was going for when he made these quilted wall hangings. He told us more in the latest episode of Local Colour.
 

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