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Re-Configuring Abstraction

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Kara Passey
With the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s recent exhibition Winnipeg Now showcasing contemporary Winnipeg artwork and the Plug In ICA’s series of exhibitions titled My Winnipeg, Mary Reid feels that Winnipeg’s strong history of abstract artwork...
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Whorl of Sleep

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Kara Passey
For the next month aceartinc. is home to Rosemary Scanlon’s exhibition Whorl of Sleep, a series of Darger-esque watercolour paintings that locate the tension between the fantasy and reality of northern life. Scanlon completed her...
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Undesirables

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Kara Passey
Coming to the Graffiti Gallery this Friday, Nov. 2, is an exhibition of sculptural work from recent graduates of the University of Manitoba’s Fine Art Program. The show is titled Undesirables and, considering that...
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First Spring Grass Fire

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Kara Passey
Rae Spoon is a transgender musician/writer/workshop facilitator who has been nominated for a Polaris Prize, released six solo albums, toured internationally, and now has published their first book, First Spring Grass Fire, in September,...
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Queer Perspectives

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Kara Passey
Lisa Wood has just completed a yearlong project in partnership with the Rainbow Resource Centre, as part of the WITH ART Community Program put together by the Winnipeg Arts Council. “Over the course of the...
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Student Spotlight: _mind’s eye. by Juliana Kusyk

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Kara Passey
The current exhibition in the Gallery of Student Art (GoSA) is quite unlike any architectural body of work I’ve ever seen before. So, when I met up with Juliana Kusyk to discuss her show—GoSA’s...
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Trust me, I’m an artist

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Kara Passey
Subsidies for the arts are awesome
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