Category Archives: Exhibitions

Originality, Precedents and Fog

By dmacwilliam | Published: April 3, 2010
I just received an invitation to Olafur Eliasson and Ma YanSong’s Feelings are Facts at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing. The press release notes that “Feelings Are Facts showcases the first collaboration between world-renowned Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, and leading Chinese architect, Ma Yansong. Their collaboration is specifically designed for UCCA’s big [...]
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Double Self Double

By dmacwilliam | Published: October 2, 2009
I’m in Regina for the CAFAD Conference at the University of Regina. I was lucky to be able to catch Maria Hupfield and Merritt Johnson’s performance Double Self Double at the opening of the My Evil Twin exhibition curated by Timothy Long at the Mackenzie Art Gallery tonight. As viewers we entered a space with two [...]
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Cathy Busby and Garry Kennedy at Centre A

By dmacwilliam | Published: September 12, 2009
Cathy Busby and Garry Neill Kennedy’s exhibition Bejing Vancouver – opened at Centre A yesterday. Busby’s project was a square installation of four large images on a scale large outdoor banners chosen from her archive of images from her time in Bejing around the time of their Olympic Games. My favorite was an enormous enlargement of two ceramic [...]
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Radical Nature at the Barbican

By dmacwilliam | Published: July 7, 2009
It’s great to be in London again, there is so much to see. Yesterday I went to see  Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet at the Barbican. It was interesting to see that much work focusing on environmental issues and the recreation of old ‘environmental art’ projects, but it was also disconcerting to [...]
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53rd Venice Biennale

By dmacwilliam | Published: June 24, 2009
The Venice Biennale seems slower this year. It is interesting to see the country pavilions in the Giardini and the choices the various curators have made. Some of the real highlights were offsite.
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Kingsway Luminaires

By dmacwilliam | Published: March 28, 2009
Yesterday I worked with Robert Held Glass artisans to blow the first full scale prototype glass globe for my project Kingsway Luminaires, the public art project I am working on as part of Vancouver’s Mapping and Marking public art competition. Kingsway Luminaires will activate six, 5.4 metre poles that are located in the centre median [...]
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How Soon Is Now

By dmacwilliam | Published: February 7, 2009
Twenty four years ago, the Smiths released How Soon is Now? That's now the borrowed title for the latest, large Vancouver Art Gallery group exhibition curated by Kathleen Ritter...
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privacy and publicity

By dmacwilliam | Published: September 15, 2008
As artists we deal with dual stresses of privacy and publicity constantly. My impulse is towards privacy. I’m a private person, but as an artist I need the attention that publicity affords in order to get my research seen and my artwork exhibited. This tension has always been there. As I read about and come [...]
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life lived fully

By dmacwilliam | Published: July 17, 2008
I just watched a short artreview interview video with Martin Creed talking about his new artwork Work No. 850 at the Tate Britain, where a single runner will sprint the length of the empty Duveen Galleries every 30 seconds. Creed says it is about “the comfort of regularity” and “exhibiting life lived fully”. In looking [...]
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