Robert Houle Career Retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario: Red is Beautiful
Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful is a career spanning retrospective consisting of over 90 large installations, paintings and drawings created between 1970 & 2021. This exhibition shows iconic works, such as Kanata, a reworking of Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe, and Parfleches for the Last Supper, addressing his respect for Indigenous spiritual traditions
Red is Beautiful: The Conversation - Robert Houle, Faye HeavyShield and Barry Ace
Robert Houle and Faye Heavyshield with Barry Ace in conversation about Red is Beautiful, presented as part of aabaakwad 2021.
Camal Pribhai and Camille Turner’s Bell from Every. Now. Then at the AGO
Wanted takes newspaper ads placed by Canadian slave owners claiming their runaway slaves and recreates them as beguiling, defiant photographs.
Michael Belmore and Camille Turner: Art disputing the arc of Canadian History
Hamilton Spectator review of the AGO’s Every: Now: Then: Reframing Nationhood.
Michael Belmore, an Anishinaabe artist, offers Rumble, a blackened copper sandwich of Trans-Am hoods, with effigies of spiritually significant creatures - a Thunderbird on one side, water panthers on the other - glowing from within.
Nearby looms Bell part of a slickly stylized photo-portrait project by Camal Pirbhai and Camille Turner, which was drawn from a shocking source: 19th-century Canadian classified ads placed by owners in search of their runaway slaves.
Michael Belmore, Robert Houle and Camille Turner at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Artists Michael Belmore, Robert Houle and Camille Turner are featured.