Joi T Arcand hand picks the best of Ottawa for the Globe and Mail’s City Confidential feature

Big Deals - A small Ottawa gallery is helping move contemporary Indigenous art into major national Institutions.

Central Art Garage to participate in Art Toronto 2021 with artists Barry Ace, Joi, T Arcand, Michael Belmore, D’Andrea Bowie, Camal and Camille, Maura Doyle, Adrian Göllner, Craig Leonard, Bozica Radjenovic, and Frank Shebageget.

Bridget Thompson, co-owner of Central Art Garage is interviewed by Guillermo Trejo of Studio66 about her approach to art collecting. The interview covers Thompson's initial interest in the arts, expanding her arts knowledge and her relationship with partner Danny Hussey. As a palliative care house call physician, Dr. Thompson has observed how art in the home can create a place of comfort.

Canadian Art's Agenda report on Michael Belmore’s solo exhibition, 'thunder sky turbulent water' at Central Art Garage. Work resembling the hood of a classic Firebird Trans-Am is cut and shaped out of huge sheets of copper and suspended from the ceiling with mechanic’s hoist, representing the upper and lower worlds in the Anishinaabe universe.

Blogger Zara (xolovexo) explores Ottawa by bike for ALT Hotel Ottawa. A bike ride through Hintonburg, Little Italy and Chinatown, hidden away in this part of the city is Central Art Garage. The gallery, located in a reclaimed auto mechanic garage, contains carefully curated contemporary shows of local, national and international artists.

Artist Ursula Johnson describes her practice and her multi media installation and performance, the exhibition the 'Indian Truckhouse of High Art' at Central Art Garage gallery. Ursula Johnson is a multidisciplinary Mi'kmaq artist based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work combines the Mi'kmaq tradition of basket weaving with sculpture, installation, and performance art.

CBC Arts: In Truckhouse, artist Ursula Johnson is selling the kind of "Indian" knick-knackery that should, by now, make us angry: conveniently-sized dreamcatchers, baskets, beaded necklaces. For Johnson, it is as much about getting rid of these items of cultural commodification as it was about buying them for her participants.

It’s Complicated, an exhibition by 10 local Aboriginal artists responding to celebrations marking Canada’s 150th birthday. The exhibition is part of the National Arts Centre’s Canada Scene.

Canadian Art publishes 'Ottawa Art Walk'. At Central Art Garage (66 Lebreton St. N.), a reclaimed auto-mechanic shop in Chinatown, Danny Hussey and Bridget Thompson have created one of Ottawa's most exciting hubs for contemporary art.

Jessica Bell’s solo exhibition “Fits and Starts” at Central Art Garage, a converted mechanic’s shop just off Lebreton Street North. The Vancouver-based Bell has been steadily unravelling the pretense that surrounds the art of painting. She’s worked on both sides of the canvas, has done away with stretchers and has laundered, folded, quilted, stitched, inflated—even made rugs from—her paintings.

Craig Leonard's Exhibition 'Shaken Antlers' at Central Art Garage, report by Peter Simpson for the Ottawa Citizen. Leonard’s piece is a low stage, covered with 24 cork mats, that stretches clear from one wall to the other. If you want to enter you cannot avoid the decision of whether to step on the art, and nobody is there to tell you right thing to do. Central Art Garage gallery news.

Artists Kristiina Lahde and Tammi Campbell are featured in the Apt613 review of the 'Hard To Look At' exhibition at Central Art Garage. Hard To Look At is in reference to the practice of using rulers, straight edges and measuring tapes to develop a defined edge for each small part of the greater piece. Interview with Danny Hussey by Jean McLernon. Central Art Garage, art gallery in Ottawa.

One year anniversary exhibition at Central Art Garage, a group show with artists showing one object -based work. The artists include Meredith Jane Snider, Martin Hyde, Uta Riccius, Daniel Sharp and Bozica Radjenovic. The Ottawa Citizen, Peter Simpson - The Big Beat. Central Art Garage News.