Julya Hajnoczky is a contemporary artist based in Calgary. Equipped with a camper and workspace known as the Al Fresco Science Machine, she has explored numerous Canadian ecosystems from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in Alberta to the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in British Columbia and Wood Buffalo National Park in the Northwest Territories.

The Prefix Prize includes a solo exhibition at Toronto’s Contact Photography Festival. See it at Urbanspace Gallery through July 27.

This is the June cover that New York based, Pulitzer prize winning Canadian illustrator Barry Blitt has drawn, a recognizable synopsis of where Prime Minister Trudeau now stands. It goes with an article in Canada’s heralded The Walrus (which just received 19 nominations for the 2024 National Magazine Awards).

Blitt is best known for New Yorker covers like this “Class of ’24” (above) from a couple of weeks ago, and his endless digs at former president Donald Trump (below ). You can see all his works for the New Yorker here. Or on his website, here.

For nearly three decades, the Montreal-born artist has created evocative editorial cartoons for The New Yorker — and other media – and in 2020, he won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.

The Pulitzer judges honoured Blitt “for work that skewers the personalities and policies emanating from the Trump White House with deceptively sweet watercolor style and seemingly gentle caricatures.”

His piece on Trudeau so effectively encompasses the backed into danger situation that many Canadians (almost everyone, in fact) believe the prime minister faces now. High skill.

A few years ago, there was much excitement about Straat Museum, a huge, new, innovative showcase for street art planned for Amsterdam (see the Art Junkie post about it here.) Red tape, building concerns and the pandemic set completion back but it’s up and running now and it’s exceeding all expectations.

Reviews of the museum say the exhibitions are superb. The latest is a solo show Take me Down by Mando Marie, known for meticulous devotion to hand-drawn and hand-cut stencils, below.

Housed in an imposing national monument – the 8,000 square metre Lasloods building of the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam North – STRAAT Museum’s permanent collection consists of more than 160 artworks by more than 130 international, street art and graffiti artists.

Canadian artist Michelle Hoogveld is represented there, with a work called Resonance and Canadian-born Chris Dyer painted the imaginary creature (below) in Shamanic journey, which he visualized after taking the entheogenic drink ayahuasca in Peru.

The canvases are all the size of exterior walls. The artists use the same techniques and materials as outside, including scaffolding and elevators.

Browse the Straat Museum site for more.

The Halifax-based artist is on exhibition through June 8 at Katzman Art Projects in Figures in the Landscape, A collection of Memories. Above View from the Guest House, 2024, 24 x 24″.

The figures in Caracristi’s paintings “have a spectral quality, symbolizing the transitory nature of time and the evanescence of human life,” the gallery says.

For the work in this show I really wanted the paintings to have this glow about them that would radiate throughout the work. I feel this is a great example of that! – Sara Caracristi commenting on Farm to Table (via Instagram)

All the works in this exhibition are acrylic and polyurethene on canvas over board.

See all the paintings on the Katzman Art Projects exhibition site here.

Sara Caracristi’s Instagram here.