Exhibits & Shows Oct 11, 2008
Studio 14 exhibits art from around the world as well as local artists including: David Silverberg, Yvon Gallant, Romeo Savoie, Alex Colville and any more. Also feature Moncton's only dealer of Inuit Art from Northern Canada. (Times and Transcript)
A walk down memory's dark corridor Aug 7, 2008
By the time she restarts her art-making in Canada, those influences have been replaced by new ones - some local, such as Esther Warkov, from whom she borrows a muted palette, and some national, such as Alex Colville, who supplies her figures with a disquieting sense of stillness and isolation. Landscape #42, part of the Apples of Sodom series, is part of a retrospective of Caroline Dukess work at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. (Globe and Mail)
When science meets art Jan 10, 2008
A few North Americans also will appear, including Canada's Alex Colville and America's Jackson Pollock. Anyone desiring to investigate these topics even more can hop over to the Canadian War Museum this summer for a far more sinister companion exhibition, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. (Ottawa Citizen)
Thberge to stay on as head of National Gallery of Canada Jan 8, 2008
The show will explore the relationship between art and biology, including eugenics and such concepts as "superman" and "degenerate." There will be works from Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Jackson Pollock and Canada's Alex Colville. Thberge's populist approach has resulted in the acquisition of Maman, the giant spider that has become a much loved landmark outside the Gallery, the well-attended show last spring of Ron Mueck's hyper-realist sculptures of people, an exhibition on cars... (Ottawa Citizen)
Our Snowbird's last songs? Nov 10, 2007
Decorated with paintings by realists Michael French and Alex Colville, it overlooks a 30-foot swimming pool where Murray swims laps almost every day. An adjacent room houses a treadmill, stationary bike, weightlifting bench and exercise ball, testaments to Murray's disciplined workout habits. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Not a red-letter day at the auction house May 29, 2007
When an Alex Colville print, Running Dog, came up, Ranger quipped, "Lots of dogs in today's sale." With 47 works unsold, the Sotheby's gross of $11. 3-million (including the house premiums) was about $2-million short of the auction house's low-end prediction for the sale of 226 lots. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
