Canadian Art Junkie https://canadianartjunkie.com Visual Arts from Canada & Around the World Thu, 23 May 2024 15:02:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/canadianartjunkie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cropped-enchanted-owl-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Canadian Art Junkie https://canadianartjunkie.com 32 32 25387756 Julya Hajnoczky wins 2024 Prefix Prize https://canadianartjunkie.com/2024/05/23/julya-hajnoczky-wins-2024-prefix-prize/ https://canadianartjunkie.com/2024/05/23/julya-hajnoczky-wins-2024-prefix-prize/#comments Thu, 23 May 2024 15:02:41 +0000 https://canadianartjunkie.com/?p=51785

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.

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Quick Hits: Renowned illustrator Barry Blitt on Justin Trudeau https://canadianartjunkie.com/2024/05/20/quick-hits-renowned-illustrator-barry-blitt-on-justin-trudeau/ https://canadianartjunkie.com/2024/05/20/quick-hits-renowned-illustrator-barry-blitt-on-justin-trudeau/#comments Mon, 20 May 2024 21:43:40 +0000 https://canadianartjunkie.com/?p=50941

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.

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Explore the Stunning STRAAT Museum’s Street Art Collection https://canadianartjunkie.com/2024/05/18/explore-the-stunning-straat-museums-street-art-collection/ https://canadianartjunkie.com/2024/05/18/explore-the-stunning-straat-museums-street-art-collection/#comments Sat, 18 May 2024 15:43:35 +0000 https://canadianartjunkie.com/?p=50988
Farid Rueda

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.

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Sara Caracristi: Ethereal Paintings on Exhibition https://canadianartjunkie.com/2024/05/17/sara-caracristi-ethereal-paintings-on-exhibition/ https://canadianartjunkie.com/2024/05/17/sara-caracristi-ethereal-paintings-on-exhibition/#comments Fri, 17 May 2024 13:06:00 +0000 https://canadianartjunkie.com/?p=51921 Sara Caracristi’s new paintings are glimmering compositions that feel like vague snapshots of a shared past. 

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″.

Boating on the Yarra, 2024, 24 x 30″

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.

Farm to Table, 2024, 24 x 24″

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.

Forest Steps, 2024, 30 x 24″
Self Reflection, 2024, 40 x 48″
Boathouse, 2024, 30 x 40″
Heart Rock, 2024, 30 x 40″

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

Sara Caracristi’s Instagram here.

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