Art this week

‘Madonna and Child’ by Richard Mosse

This week offers another slate of great shows opening plus some special events you won’t want to miss.

First up, tonight (Wednesday) a special presentation called Digging the Archives takes place at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse where, as part of the feminist gallery’s 40th anniversary celebrations, curator Anne Golden will be screening a series of short films pulled from the archives going back as far as 1972. 4296 St-Laurent, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

 

Thursday is a big day with several shows opening — but I recommend starting with a free guided tour of the exhibits at DHC/ART with curator Cheryl Sim. The two shows (which were featured in our November print issue) include The Enclave by Richard Mosse and Surface Tension by Valérie Belin. Reserve your spot by emailing the gallery at info@dhc-art.org. 451 & 465 St-Jean, Thursday, 4 p.m.

 

Afterwards on Thursday, head to Nomad Nation to see Verona Sorensen’s new show, Urban Nomad: Door to Door, with large scale canvases of wintery abstract expressionism. 129 Van Horne, 5–7 p.m.

 

Also on Thursday you could check out Galerie LeRoyer Downtown to see the vernissage for Marie-Josée Roy’s show Le Chant Quantique. Roy’s work is based on metal, which she sculpts, paints and engraves in ways that balance human vulnerability with the strength of her medium. 2170 de la Montagne, Thursday, 5–8 p.m.

 

 

A major highlight goes down on Friday at BBAM! Gallery where photographer Paul Zone will be in the house to chat and sign copies of his new book of photos documenting the burgeoning punk scene in 1970’s New York. Large scale prints will be on display at the gallery including captures of luminaries such as Debbie Harry and the Ramones. 3255 St-Jacques, Friday 7–10 p.m.

 

Another big event happens on Friday, with Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat giving a lecture at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts as part of the programming offered by the Montreal Biennale. Neshat’s body of work has dealt with tensions between the genders in the Muslim Middle East in a way that emphasizes how feminism can thrive behind the veil, something some Western feminists tend to forget. 1380 Sherbrooke W., 7 p.m., free for Biennale passport holders, $5 without.

 

On Saturday, visit Galerie Youn for a reception for two shows, On Earth (Final) by Yuriko Kubota and When I Close My Eyes, I See Numbers by Michael Toke. Toke’s work, focussing on numbers, examines our sometimes irrational relationships with rational things. 5226 St-Laurent, Saturday, 2–5 p.m.

 

Check out our full listings of vernissages, last calls, and ongoing shows below.

 

Vernissages:

 

Wednesday, Nov. 26

POPOP Gallery – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #442)

Charting the Interior – Group Show

To Nov. 29 – Finissage Nov. 29 5–9 p.m.

 

Thursday, Nov. 27

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse – 4296 St-Laurent

Les Résolutions – Residency with Anne-Marie Proulx

To Dec. 12 – Finissage Dec. 12, 5–7 p.m.

 

Thursday, Nov. 27, 5–7 p.m.

Nomad Nation – 129 Van Horne

Urban Nomad: Door to Door – Verona Sorensen

To Dec. 27

 

Thursday, Nov. 27, 5–8 p.m.

Galerie LeRoyer Downtown – 2170 de la Montagne

Le Chant Quantique – Marie-Josée Roy

To Dec. 30

 

Thursday, Nov. 27, 6 p.m.

The McClure Gallery (Visual Arts Centre) – 350 Victoria

Nocturne – Benjamin Klein

To Dec. 20

 

Friday, Nov. 28, 7–11 p.m.

BBAM! Gallery – 3255 St-Jacques

The New York Underground 1971 – 1978 – Photography by Paul Zone

To Dec. 16

 

Friday, Nov. 28, 6–9 p.m.

Atelier Circulaire – 5445 de Gaspé, #105 & #517

Prêt-à-Emporter – Fundraiser + Print Sale

To Dec. 13

 

Saturday, Nov. 29, 2–5 p.m.

Galerie LUZ – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #418)

Gallery 1: Nadine Bourgeois + Anne-Marie Giroux + Jason Gillingham + Marilyn Rubenstein + Nathalie Savoie

Gallery 2: Sylvie Adams + Reza Barnisadre + Josée Lebeau

Gallery 3: Beverly Farley

To Dec. 20

 

Saturday, Nov. 29, 2–5 p.m.

Galerie Youn – 5226 St-Laurent

On Earth (Final) – Yuriko Kubota

When I Close My Eyes, I See Numbers – Michael Toke

To Dec. 7

 

Saturday, Nov. 29, 4–6 p.m.

Joyce Yahouda Gallery – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #516)

Anthony Haden Guest

Generator – Benjamin Klein

‘The Terror’s Salon’ – Céline B. La Terreur

Out of My Window, Down the Alley, Around the Corner, and Up the Block – Perry Bard

To Jan. 17, 2015

 

Last Call:

 

Station 16 – 3523 St-Laurent

#NYCmeetsMTL – Group Show

To Nov. 29

 

Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery – 1400 de Maisonneuve W., Ground Floor

Speculations. Risquer l’interprétation: Part 1 – Group Show

To Nov. 29

 

TOHU (Espace BOHU) – 2345 Jarry

Exil : Vérité trompeuse – Yanick Sasseville

To Nov. 29

 

Visual Voice Art Gallery – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg  #421)

Ground Control – Bill Finger

To Nov. 29

 

Galerie D – 1200 Amherst,  #102

Je Zoo – André Vaudrin

To Nov. 29

 

CIRCA art actuel – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg  #444)

Benefit Exhibition

To Nov. 29

 

SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg  #507)

I, Of Whom I Know Nothing – Pablo Sigg

To Nov. 29

 

Monastiraki – 5478 St-Laurent

WLLDDZZY: BMP FLOWERZ

To Nov. 30

 

Galerie Mile End (Ame-Art) – 5345 Parc

Art D’Éco (Art de Recyclage)

To Nov. 30

 

Kafein – 1429A Bishop

Viridian – Irina Trostianetzky

To Nov. 30

 

Espace Projet – 353 Villeray

Traduction \\\ Translation – Group Show

To Nov. 30

 

Galerie ROCCIA – 5692 St-Laurent

New Sculptures – André Desjardins

Photographs – Carl Lessard

To Nov. 30

 

Espace 40 (Mile End) – 160 St-Viateur E.,  #108

Ménage à trois – Paule Thibault + Maxime Lévesque + Denis Dulude

To Nov. 30

 

Eastern Bloc – 7240 Clark, 2nd Floor

Made in Canada 1.0 – From Sea To Sea – Residency with Santiago Leal

To Nov. 30

 

Ongoing Shows:

 

Galerie 203 – 203 Notre-Dame W.

Malaise – Group Show

To Dec. 4

 

FOFA Gallery (Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts) – 1515 Ste-Catherine W.

Combine 2014 – Group Show

To Dec. 5

 

VAV Gallery – 1395 René-Lévesque W.

Art and Other Organisms – Group Show

To Dec. 5

 

Galerie de l’UQAM – 1400 Berri, Pavillon Judith-Jasmin, Local J-R 120

Secret Citadel – Graeme Patterson

To Dec. 6

 

Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI) – 3680 Jeanne-Mance,  #103

The Collective Man – Tehnica Schweiz

To Dec. 6

 

Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran – 1892 Payette

Hope Springs Eternal II – Jon Rafman

To Dec. 6

 

Fonderie Darling – 745 Ottawa

BNLMTL2014: L’Avenir (Looking Forward) – Li Ran + Lawrence Weiner

Razzle Dazzle Sisboom Bah – Karen Kraven

To Dec. 7

 

Centre d’exposition Lethbridge (Bibliothèque du Boisé) – 2727 Thimens

Œuvres choisies

To Dec. 7

 

Z Art Space – 819 Atwater

Watershed – Michel Beaucage

To Dec. 10

 

Vidéographe – 4550 Garnier

Born Like This – Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel

To Dec. 11

 

CK2 Gallery – 6560 Esplanade,  #203

Preview – Group Show

To Dec. 11

 

HAN ART – 4209 Ste-Catherine W.

Snow Land – Tong Luo

to Dec. 13

 

Maison de la culture de Côte-des-Neiges – 5290 Côte-des-Neiges

Hop, la vie dans le sac – Céline Huyghebaert

To Dec. 14

 

Maison de la culture Mercier – 8105 Hochelaga

Des traces et des artifices – Jessica Peters

To Dec. 19

 

Yves Laroche Galerie d’Art – 6355 St-Laurent

Égrégore – The Zenith of Pop Surrealism – 50+ international artists

To Dec. 20

 

Parisian Laundry – 3550 St-Antoine W.

Simultaneous Displays – Luc Paradis

To Dec. 20

 

Les Territoires – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg  #527)

À L’Ombre de Mouches – Julie Escoffier

Peu N’Est Pas Rien – Caroline Mauxion

To Dec. 20

 

Galerie Bernard – 3926 St-Denis

Une Forêt Dans La Tête – Lise Gagné

To Dec. 20

 

Centre des Arts actuels Skol – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg.  #314)

Vacant Living – Dong-Kyoon Nam

To Dec. 20

 

Galerie B-312 – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #403)

What Goes Around Comes Around – Curated by Adrian Norvid in collaboration with Monastiraki

To Dec. 20

 

Galerie Simon Blais – 5420 St-Laurent,  #100

Harold Klunder

Denis Juneau

Françoise Sullivan

To Dec. 20

 

Galerie Laroche/Joncas – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #410)

Gilles Mihalcaen

To Dec. 20

 

Optica – 5455 de Gaspé,  #106

Bibelots – Julie Lequin

Great Expectations – Renata Poljak

To Dec. 20

 

Galerie Lilian Rodriguez – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg  #405)

Hairy Larry Harakiri – Aidan Pontarini

To Dec. 20

 

Galerie Hugues Charbonneau – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg  #308)

Irreversibles – Alain Paiement

To Dec. 20

 

Arsenal Montreal – 2020 William

BNLMTL2014: Basim Magdy + Lynne Marsh + Dave Dyment

To Dec. 20

 

Galerie Trois Points – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #520)

Hither and Thither – Luke Painter

Cas de Figure – Evergon + Richard Mill + Natascha Niederstrass + Natalie Reis

To Dec. 20

 

Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain (PFOAC221) – 372 Ste-Catherine W.

Urban Res – Kent Monkman

To Dec. 20

 

Parisian Laundry – 3550 St-Antoine W.

BNLMTL2014: A Time to Break the Silence – Edgar Arceneaux

To Dec. 20

 

Art Mûr – 5826 St-Hubert

Schémas: Assorted Templates – Nicolas Grenier

Canadians and Americans (best friends forever… it’s complicated) – Diana Thorneycroft

Ce que l’on ne voit pas qui nous touche – Simon Bilodeau

To Dec. 20

 

Le repaire des 100 talents – 5867 St-Hubert

Les Maîtres du Monde

To Dec. 22

 

HTMlles.net – Online Exhibit

Maid in Cyberspace Revisited – Group Show

To Dec. 31

 

L’Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir – 5333 Casgrain,  #802

While I Was Walking – Stephanie Russ

To Jan. 3, 2015

 

Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History – 350 Place Royale

Lives and Times of the Plateau

To Jan. 4, 2015

 

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) – 185 Ste-Catherine W.

La Biennale de Montréal – BNLMTL2014: L’Avenir (Looking Forward)

To Jan. 4, 2015

 

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

BNLMTL2014: Illusions and Mirrors – Shirin Neshat

To Jan. 4, 2015

 

Goethe-Institut – 1626 St-Laurent

HTMlles Festival: Can’t Stop – Linda Franke

To Jan. 11

 

Vidéographe – 4550 Garnier

10 ans dans le bruissement du monarque – Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel

To Jan. 11, 2015

 

Galerie ABYSS – 1520 Notre-Dame W.

Kick Flip – Skateboard Art Group Show

To Jan. 15, 2015

 

Galerie Samuel Lallouz – 1455 Sherbrooke W.

Ralph Gibson Photographs

To Jan. 15, 2015

 

Centre de design de l’UQAM – 1440 Sanguinet

L’objet japonais – A panorama of contemporary design in Japan

To Jan. 18, 2015

 

Artexte – 2 Ste-Catherine E.

Changeover – Jason Simon

To Jan. 24, 2015

 

Fondation Guido Molinari – 3290 Ste-Catherine E.

Cozic/Moli: The Seventies – A Complicit Allusion

Marc Garneau 1982 – 1984: An Eyeful of Silence

To Jan. 25, 2015

 

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

From Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Impressionism to Expressionism, 1900‐1914

To Jan. 25, 2015

 

DHC/ART – 451 & 465 St-Jean

The Enclave – Richard Mosse

Surface Tension – Valérie Belin

To Feb. 8, 2015

 

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

The Patriotism of Death: Propaganda Posters From World War I

To Feb. 8, 2015

 

Canadian Centre for Architecture – 1920 Baile

Found in Translation: Palladio and Jefferson

To Feb. 15, 2015

 

VOX Centre de l’Image Contemporaine – 2 Ste-Catherine E.,  #401

James Benning + Jean Marie-Delaville

To Feb. 21, 2015

 

FOFA Gallery (Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts) – 1515 Ste-Catherine W.

Concordia Remembers – Sara A. Tremblay

To Feb. 22, 2015

 

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

Warhol Mania: A Brand-New Look at his Advertising Posters and Magazine Illustrations

To Mar. 15, 2015

 

Musée du Rock’n’Roll – 2222 Ontario E.

Révolution Rock: The Emergence of Quebecois Rock’n’Roll 1964 – 1968

To Mar. 24, 2015

McCord Museum – 690 Sherbrooke W.

Love in Fine Fashion

To Apr. 12, 2015

 

Canadian Centre for Architecture – 1920 Baile

Rooms You May Have Missed – Bijoy Jain + Umberto Riva

To April 29, 2015