‘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.
‘Particule’ by Marie-Josée Roy
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.
‘Four’ by Michael Toke
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.
‘Small Snow’ by Verona Sorensen
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
Photographs by Paul Zone
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