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Into the Wosk Collection: Discovery and Wonder
Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC - To April 27
Scholar, author, educator, rabbi, businessperson, peace activist, art collector and philanthropist Yosef Wosk has played a recurring role in the shaping of modern-day Vancouver. Born in the city in 1949, he is the son of Morris Wosk, who, with his brother Ben, emigrated from Ukraine with their parents in 1928 and went to work as street peddlers. Within 20 years the Wosk brothers had built a diverse retail and real estate empire. While Yosef came up in the family business, diversification for him included spiritual, intellectual, aesthetic and humanist pursuits. Wosk’s long-standing interest in books, manuscripts, photographs, prints, paintings, sculptures, furniture and various cultural objects has resulted in a remarkable collection that is both vast and coherent. Curators Adad Hannah and the Audain’s Kiriko Watanabe...
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David Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR - To July 26
The largest North American survey of Hockney’s work ever assembled is making quite a splash in Portland. Inside the newly renovated Portland Art Museum, the two-floor show traces the full arc of a restlessly inventive mind. It features more than 200 pieces spanning six decades, including prints, collages, video, photographic works, and drawings made on an iPad. Hockney was known as “the Boy from Bradford” at the Royal College of Art in Swinging London, where he evolved from abstraction to Pop Art. The provincial “Boy” learned he was a far more talented draftsman than his privileged peers. He discovered the even more swinging Los Angeles in 1964. He shuttled to and from LA until 1977, when he settled there, but did have periods living back...
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Tom Lloyd
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA - May 16 – Sep 20
When the Studio Museum in Harlem opened in 1968, its inaugural exhibition was Electronic Refractions II, a survey of Tom Lloyd’s groundbreaking electronic light sculptures. In the ensuing decades, the museum grew into an institution internationally renowned for its presentation of and support for artists of the African diaspora. It acquired, expanded and then outgrew its current location on West 125th Street. After a complete reconstruction, the museum reopened in 2025 with Tom Lloyd, a retrospective including seminal works from the 1968 exhibition. The show opens at the Frye in Seattle mid-May. “The radical choice in making him the inaugural show was not that he was a Black artist … but rather that he was an artist working in a new technology,” says Studio Museum...
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Anthony Cudahy, Justin de Verteuil, Magalie Guérin & Alexandre Pépin
Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB - To April 26
If you’ve ever walked through an art gallery and felt like you’ve barely scratched the surface, you’re not alone. But what if truly enjoying and understanding art requires slowing down? Slow looking, a practice rooted in mindfulness, is at the core of four solo painting exhibitions at Esker Foundation. Works by Justin de Verteuil, Alexandre Pépin, Anthony Cudahy and Magalie Guérin create sensual environments through four distinct painting practices. Blurring the boundary between figuration and abstraction, they transform everyday moments into fleeting yet tangible expressions, offering a human centred counterpoint to our fast-moving, hyper-digital environment. De Verteuil opens a window onto other realms. In Planet Caravan, a body hovers before a tree silhouetted against a fiery sky. A taut hammock transforms into wing-like shapes as...
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