Entangled: Two Views On Contemporary Canadian Painting

John Kissick, Burning the Houses of Cool Man, Yeah No. 5 (Hang the DJ), 2016

Entangled: Two Views On Contemporary Canadian Painting

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC - Sep 30-Jan 1

by Robin Laurence

This ambitious survey examines “two distinctly different modes” of painting that have emerged in Canada since the 1970s – that is, from a time when painting’s relevance within the Postmodern movement was “hotly debated.” Drawing on the work of 31 contemporary artists from across the country, the show’s curators argue that two approaches to painting were birthed out of that earlier debate, one driven by concepts and ideas, the other by materials and processes.

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