Art this week

Marchesa Luisa Casati. Work by Steben Alexander at Galerie D

 

So, art lovers, get ready for another busy weekend in the galleries (and as we all know, the weekend starts on Thursday!) with plenty of vernissages, artist talks and other special events coming at you. Without further ado, here are some highlights we can’t wait to see.

 

Today, Thursday, is a full evening with five vernissages PLUS a couple of artist talks. Concordia’s Conversations in Contemporary Arts series hosts sculptor and educator Del Harrow for a lecture in the downtown Visual Arts building. 1395 René-Lévesque W., #VA-114, Thursday, Feb. 12, 6 p.m., free

 

Also on Thursday, Concordia’s Art Matters Festival hosts a conversation between Scorpion Dagger (aka James Kerr) and Harley Smart of Anteism Publishing. The pair have collaborated to turn Kerr’s hilarious Renaissance-stylef animated GIFs into a physical book employing the emerging technology of augmented reality. 1515 Ste-Catherine W., EV-6.720, Thursday, Feb. 12, 6:30 p.m., free

 

Two of the shows opening Thursday are just a short walk away from each other, so you could very easily visit both. First, head to E. K. Voland Art Gallery for Dego (Detlaf Gotzens)’s solo show of colourful abstract works, Tremors. 4710 St-Ambroise, #100, Thursday, Feb. 12, 5–8 p.m.

 

Afterwards, head a few blocks over to Rack Galerie for an exhibition of works by artist and graphic designer Samuel Charrois, a vernissage that promises to be quite a party with cocktails, a DJ and dancefloor. 3714 Notre-Dame W., Thursday, Feb. 12, 6 p.m.–12 a.m.

 

On Friday, have yourself a spooky Friday the 13th at Station 16, where X-RAY will be hosting a lighthearted candlelit séance to launch his limited edition spirit board (his take on the classic ouija game), each one hand-cut, silkscreened and autographed. 3523 St-Laurent, Friday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m.

 

Otherwise, head to Galerie D on Friday for Steben Alexander’s Ma muse m’amuse and help conjure the spirit of the legendary Marchesa Luisa Casati (1881–1957) with works including photographs and a short film presentation. You won’t want to miss this party, which will include live music from violinist Fran Alexander, snacks from El Zazium, beats by 256K and a sip of absinthe to make it all extra trippy. 1200 Amherst #102, Friday, Feb. 13, 5–8 p.m.

 

Back uptown on Friday, don’t miss the vernissage for Otherworldly at Art Mûr, featuring new works by Betino Assa and his imaginative societies that operate right under our noses, plus works by Matthew Thomson that will make you look a little differently at those everyday, mundane things that are discarded too easily. 5826 St-Hubert, Friday, Feb. 13, 5–8 p.m.

 

For Saturday, check out the Belgo’s Visual Voice Art Gallery for the vernissage of the German graphic design team Deskriptiv’s show, Generative Methods. The works are the results of a process-based approach using algorithms and patterns to create shapes digitally, and presented as 2D or 3D prints, or animations. The current presentation will focus on works on paper. 372 Ste-Catherine W. #421, Saturday, Feb. 14, 3–5:30 p.m.

 

While you’re in the Belgo, you could also take advantage of the last chance to see 119 m Above Sea Level at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, where a special screening is planned for the film Le Semeur (The Sower) by Julie Perron, taking a look at the heritage seed cultivation project of Patrice Fortier in the Kamouraska valley, and what it can tell us about stewardship of the land and encouraging biodiversity. The film is presented in French with English subtitles. 372 Ste-Catherine W. #507, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2 p.m.

 

Check the full listings below for more, and enjoy your adventures in art this week!

 

Vernissages:

 

Feb. 12, 6 p.m.

Rack Galerie – 3714 Notre-Dame W.

Samuel Charrois

 

Feb. 12

Espace POP – 5587 Parc

Claudine Sauvé – Photographs

To Feb. 19

 

Feb. 12, 6–8 p.m.

Galerie Mile End (Ame-Art) – 5345 Parc

Yearning Heart – Group Show

To Feb. 21

 

Feb. 12, 5–8 p.m.

E. K. Voland Art Gallery – 4710 St-Ambroise, #100

Tremors – Dego (Detlaf Gotzens)

To Feb. 26

 

Feb. 12, 6 p.m.

Fondation Guido Molinari – 3290 Ste-Catherine E.

Multi noirs, 1997–2014 – Francine Savard

Goguen, Molinari, Drawings 1954–1959

To April 26

 

Feb. 13, 6–9 p.m.

Aux Vues – 783 Bienville

Goods – Group Show

To Feb. 22

 

Feb. 13, 5–8 p.m.

Art Mûr – 5826 St-Hubert

Otherworldly – Betino Assa + Matthew Thomson

To Feb. 28

 

Feb. 13, 5–8 p.m.

Galerie D – 1200 Amherst, #102

Ma muse m’amuse – Steben Alexander

To March 18

 

Feb. 14, 3–5:30 p.m.

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

Generative Methods – Deskriptiv

To March 7

 

Feb. 14, 3 p.m.

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

To Rebel is Justified – Chun Hua Catherine Dong

To March 21

 

Last Call:

 

Parisian Laundry – 3550 St-Antoine W.

Drop, Drop Slow Tears – Janet Werner

Uncertain Smile – Jordan Weitzman

To Feb. 14

 

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

119 m Above Sea Level – Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal

To Feb. 14

 

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

The Disorderless of Things – Group Show

Transcender l’architecture – Marie-Eve Martel

To Feb. 14

 

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

Sensing Realities – Group Show

To Feb. 14

 

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

Nature Molle – Shanie Tomassini

A Helper – Chih-Chien Wang

To Feb. 14

 

Galerie Simon Blais – 5420 St-Laurent, #100

Contre-chants – Louise Robert

Alleyn 360º – Edmund Alleyn

To Feb. 14

 

OBORO – 4001 Berri, #301

Border Stitching – Vessna Perunovich

To Feb. 14

 

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

Construction de l’histoire – Group Show

To Feb. 14

 

Rats 9 – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #530)

Les ébaucheries – Group Show

To Feb. 14

 

Articule – 262 Fairmount W.

Corporate Creativity Workshops for Art – Desearch Repartment

To Feb. 15

 

Canadian Centre for Architecture – 1920 Baile

Found in Translation: Palladio and Jefferson

To Feb. 15

 

Maison culturelle et communautaire de Montréal-Nord – 12004 Rolland

La relève se révèle – Patricia Faubert + Rocio Perez + Merlin

To Feb. 15

 

Maison de la culture Maisonneuve – 4200 Ontario E.

De l’autre côté du miroir – Catherine Rondeau

To Feb. 15

 

Ongoing Shows:

 

Centre for Sustainable Development – 50 Ste-Catherine W.

Sous la peau de la ville – Linda-Marlena

To Feb. 17

 

Café-Bar Théâtre Ste-Catherine – 264 Ste-Catherine E.

Dave Biddle – Art Up! by Beluga

To Feb. 17 – Finissage Feb. 17, 6 p.m.

 

CK2 Gallery – 6560 Esplanade, #203

Five Successive Blows by a Giant Fisti – Group Show

To Feb. 19

 

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

88 Days in Själsö – Sarah A Tremblay

Fathomless – Philippe Caron Lefebvre

Political Poem / I Watch The News – Félipe Goulet Letarte

To Feb. 20

 

Agora de la danse – 840 Cherrier

Martin Désilets

To Feb. 20

 

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

Kaleidoscope A–Z, 2010–2014 – George E. Russell

Demetrios Papakostas

Marc Ledoux

To Feb. 21

 

Centre CLARK – 5455 de Gaspé, #114

Valley of the Deer – Jillian McDonald

Les sessions de la paix – Jean-Michel Leclerc

Ruptur – Nelly-Ève Rajotte + Samuel Bobony

To Feb. 21- Finissage w/ Jean-Michel Leclerc Feb. 21, 3 p.m.

 

Diagonale – 5455 de Gaspé, #110

Chara – Valerie Kolakis

To Feb. 21

 

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

James Benning + Jean Marie-Delaville

To Feb. 21

 

Galerie René Blouin – 10 King

Ari Bayuaji

Serge Murphy

To Feb. 21

 

Galerie Nicolas Robert – 10 King

If There is a Lake, The Swans Will Go There – Martin Schop

To Feb. 21

 

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

Made in Britain – Karen Tam

To Feb. 21

 

Galerie Youn – 5226 St-Laurent

LUX – Megan Ellen MacDonald

Mammalia – Michael Caines

To Feb. 22

 

Espace Projet – 353 Villeray

Retour sur les quatres routes: Le Corbusier 50+ – Group Show

To Feb. 22

 

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

Concordia Remembers – Sara A. Tremblay

To Feb. 22

 

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

Peut Mieux Faire: Cahiers d’exercises – Group Show

To Feb. 22

 

Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles – 5800 St-Denis, #501

Le sort, le destin et l’autodétermination – Line Dufour

To Feb. 27

 

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse – 4296 St-Laurent

Se partager les eaux – Marie-France Tremblay

To Feb. 27

 

Le repaire des 100 talents – 5867 St-Hubert

Touski – Group Show

To Feb. 27

 

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

Centaur – Konstantinos Meramveliotakis

To Feb. 27

 

Galerie ABYSS – 1520 Notre-Dame W.

Last Year’s Fears – Group Show

To Feb. 28

 

Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain (PFOAC) – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #216)

Strangers in a Strange Land – Ed Pien

To Feb. 28

 

Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran – 1892 Payette

Out of This Light, Into This Shadow – Juan Ortiz-Apuy

Balancing Zing – Les Ramsay

To Feb. 28

 

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

Espaces illusoires – Blanche Louise-Michaud + Sarah Osborne + Amélie Riendeau

To Feb. 28

 

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

Places – Lynne Cohen + Sylvie Readman

To Feb. 28

 

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

The Uneasy Sleep of the Operator – Sébastien Cliche

Soulèvement social – Sayeh Sarfaraz

To Feb. 28

 

Art Mûr – 5826 St-Hubert

Reticence – Michelle Lundqvist

Fields – Neil Harrison

Paysage financier – François Raymond

La revente – Group Show

To Feb. 28

 

Usine 106U – 160 Roy E.

Inoculation – Group Show

To Feb. 28

 

The McClure Gallery (Visual Arts Centre) – 350 Victoria

Megalopolis – Dennis Ekstedt

To Feb. 28

 

Café Touski – 2361 Ontario E.

Le jour de la marmotte – Adeline Lamarre

To Feb. 28

 

Galerie Dominique Bouffard – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #508)

Art and Narrative – Group Show

To Feb. 28

 

Galerie Donald Browne – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #528)

Out of Shape – Paul Bureau

To Feb. 28

 

Maison de la culture Frontenac – 2550 Ontario E.

Riopelle: Les migrations du bestiaire – au pays des ouaouarons

To March 1

 

Monastiraki – 5478 St-Laurent

Lumen – Laura Madera

Mere Phantoms – Shadow Installation

To March 1

 

Occurrence – 5455 de Gaspé, #108

Vert voisin III – Stéphanie Beaulieu

L’image-matière – Benoit Blondeau

Les Inéluctables – CLUCA

To March 7

 

Galerie Graff – 963 Rachel E.

39 – 45 – Jean-Pierre Séguin

To March 7

 

Phi Centre – 407 St-Pierre

y2o – Dominique T. Skoltz

To March 7

 

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

Barcelone: Cinq regards Montréalais – Group Show

To March 8

 

Galerie ROCCIA – 5692 St-Laurent

Love, l’amour exposé! – Group Show

To March 8

 

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

Causalité – Marc Dulude

À la lueur de BéBé Lune – zipertatou

Incubator – Inbal Hoffman – Roundtable Feb. 27, 4 p.m.

To March 14

 

Beaux-Arts des Amériques – 3944 St-Denis

Still Life: Revisited – Group Show

To March 14

 

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

The Forgotten Space

To March 15

 

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

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

To March 15

 

McCord Museum – 690 Sherbrooke W.

Frédéric Lavoie – Artist in Residence

To March 15

 

Galerie Bernard – 3926 St-Denis

Continuum – Margit Hideg

To March 21

 

Optica – 5455 de Gaspé, #106

Études préparatoires. Dessins d’explosions 2012-2015 – Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf

Palazzo Chupi – Michael Blum

To March 21

 

Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery – Dawson College, 4001 de Maisonneuve

Trade / Gift / Purchase: Artists Collect – Group Show

To March 21

 

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

Albert Dumouchel

To March 21

 

Galerie Division – 2020 William

You Won’t Believe (…) – Group Show

To March 21

 

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

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

To March 24

 

La Lumière du Mile End – 214 Bernard W.

Crystal Souls – Waxhead + Starkey

To March 31

 

McCord Museum – 690 Sherbrooke W.

Love in Fine Fashion

To April 12

 

Musée du costume et du textile du Québec (MCTQ) – 363 de la Commune E.

Chic & Choc

To April 18

 

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

The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great

To April 26

 

Canadian Centre for Architecture – 1920 Baile

Rooms You May Have Missed – Bijoy Jain + Umberto Riva

To April 29

 

Arsenal Montreal – 2020 William

PRISM – David Spriggs

To May 9

 

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

Sophie Calle: For the Last and First Time

Simon Starling: Metamorphology

To May 10

 

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism – Benjamin-Constant in His Time

To May 31