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Reading at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
If you're in Fredericton on March 21, at 7 pm, I hope you can join me at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery where I will be reading from my three Gaspereau Press books on Mary Pratt, Gerald Ferguson, and Alex Colville.
Find our more information here.
You can get the books from better bookstores, from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Gift shop, or from Gaspereau Press.
Gaspereau Field Guides Series Launch
I'm launching the three books in my field guides series at Art Bar + Projects Thursday Feb. 7 from 6-8 pm. I'll do short readings from Mary Pratt: Still Light, Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting, and Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind.
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Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind
My new book Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind, #3 in my Gaspereau Field Guides to Canadian artists series, has just been published. You can get it at better bookstores or order it here.
Article on Duke and Battersby in Espace #121
My article Familiar Others was translated into French and appears as Les altéritiés familières: le point de vue animal de Duke et Battersby in the latest issue of Espace art actuel.
For my anglophone friends the original English version is available below.
Gerald Ferguson in Border Crossings magazine
My article Minding the Arts: The Visual Understanding of Gerald Ferguson is in the latest issue of Border Crossings, #148. You can find it on newsstands or get a copy here.
New Halifax Magazine Blog
My latest blog, Change is Constant: The Year in Art, for Halifax Magazine is now live. You can read it here.
Herménégilde Chiasson at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Canadian Art
You can read my Canadian Art On-line review of Herménégilde Chiasson's exhibition Depuis 50 ans/For 50 Years at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery here.
Galleries West Art Books 2018
So pleased that two of my books, Mary Pratt: Still Light and Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting, were selected for Galleries West Art books 2018 issue. You can read about it here.
I also am a contributor to the book Ned Pratt: One Wave, which was also featured in this issue.
Prefix Photo 38
My essay Between Sea and Sky: Ned Pratt's Newfoundland Landscapes is included in the new issue of Prefix Photo. You can find the magazine at http://www.prefix.ca/magazine/
Kent Monkman in the Globe and Mail
My story on the unveiling of Kent Monkman's new painting at AGNS was just in the Globe and Mail. You can read it here.
Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting
My latest book is now available from Gaspereau Press. You can ask for it in better bookstores, or you can order it here.
Review of Gerald Ferguson at AGNS
My review of Close to the Edge... The Work of Gerald Ferguson is now live at Canadian Art On-line. You can read it here: https://canadianart.ca/reviews/gerald-ferguson/
Find out more about the exhibition here: https://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/exhibitions/close-edge-work-gerald-ferguson
Gerald Ferguson, Neoclassical Still Lifes, 1994, Enamel on canvas. 117.8 x 134.6 cm.
Two New Articles about Canadian Sculptors
Sarah Maloney in Sculpture Magazine
My feature article on Sarah Maloney (A New Image of Landscape) is now available in the October 2018 issue of Sculpture Magazine.
Colleen Wolstenholme in Espace art actuel
My feature article on Colleen Wolstenholme (Damn Control: Colleen Wolstenholme's Sculpture of Resistance) is now available in Espace #120, Fall 2018.
http://www.colleenwolstenholme.com/
Review of Blue Rocks: Gerald Ferguson, Marsden Hartley and John Hartman
My review of this exhibition at the AGNS is in the Fall 2018 issue of Visual Arts News (http://visualartsnews.ca/)
Learn more about the exhibition here: https://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/exhibitions/blue-rocks-gerald-ferguson-marsden-hartley-and-john-hartman