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SEPTEMBER 2009

By Erin Eller

Taming the Wild at Galerie Simon Blais
Montreal, Quebec
Through October 10, 2009
www.galeriesimonblais.com



        BY: Artist, Gallery, Museum, City
(2009/12) Undeclared Objects, Group Sculpture Exhibition
(2009/12) Lens and Tomb: Art and Architecture, Carlo Scarpa by Guido Guidi
(2009/11) The Un-Set Stage, Daniel Hutchinson
(2009/11) New Nostalgia, Stephen Appleby-Barr
(2009/10) Paintings and Peameal (a.k.a. Canadian Bacon), Diana Thorneycroft
(2009/10) Moving Still Lifes, Adad Hannah
(2009/09) Taming the Wild, Graeme Patterson
(2009/09) Little Black Drawing, Cathy Daley
(2009/07) Things Big and Small
(2009/07) Joshua Neustein's "Margins"
(2009/06) The Last Wilderness: the Photography of Mark Freedman
(2009/06) Gunning for You
(2009/05) Embedded Artist
(2009/05) A New Babylon : The Art of Jon Todd
(2009/04) Fauve and the City
(2009/04) Brave New World - Oliver Vernon at Meta Gallery
(2009/03) Bird on a wire
(2009/03) A Long Career Boldly Recognized: Claude Tousignant at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
(2009/02) Tortured Artists
(2009/02) Montreals Art Souterrain : Contemporary Art Goes Underground
(2008/12) AGO Transformed
(2008/12) "All You Can Eat" by Karine Giboulo
(2008/11) Depth Perception - David Spriggs at Art Mur
(2008/11) "and" by Iain Baxter&
(2008/10) The Paper Trail: The Second Annual Papier Art Fair
(2008/10) Doll-Face: Martin Rondeau
(2008/10) Deuil Phase II and Airborne, Spring Hurlbut
(2008/09) Where the Art with Heart Is - Casey Hosue
(2008/09) Close to You - Textile Museum
(2008/09) "Take Care of Yourself", Sophie Calle
(2008/07) Nothing but a Number, Gord Smith
(2008/07) Herself: Frida Kahlo
(2008/06) Private Performance, Yang Yongsheng
(2008/06) "Deep Paper Cuts: recent work in washi"
(2008/05) Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics
(2008/05) My Fair Lady Things, Robyn Cumming
(2008/04) Natual Colour: Arnaud Maggs Nomenclature
(2008/04) Continuum, Pierre Tremblay
(2008/03) T&T: Tech and Trees
(2008/03) Dazzling Abstraction, Robert McLaughlin Gallery
(2008/02) Value Art, Raymod Waters
(2008/02) Picturing Progress, Edward Burtynsky
(2008/02) A Heart for Art: Esther Cohen
(2007/12) Messages en Masse, Scott Ellis
(2007/12) African Eye
(2007/11) Science of Painting: Michael Burges' Reverse Glass Paintings
(2007/11) People, Places and Things
(2007/11) Driven by Art, Brent Merrill
(2007/10) Spokesman for the Arts, Jim Fleck
(2007/10) Mirrored Images, Vik Muniz
(2007/10) Many Works and Much Living, Micah Lexier
(2007/10) Jane Ash Poitras, Rituals
(2007/09) One Man's Empire: Thrush Holmes
(2007/09) From One Collector to Another, Alan Bryce
(2007/09) Deep Blue to See
(2007/07) Windows Art: The Microsoft Art Collection
(2007/07) Times Change: Glenn Ligon
(2007/07) House of Art
(2007/06) Walking on Water, Julian Opie
(2007/06) Setting a Scared Table, Clay Ellis
(2007/06) Collecting Inside and Out: The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
(2007/05) Instantly Collectible: The Polaroid Collection
(2007/04) Privately Collected, Publicly Owned: The Firestone Colleciton of Canadian Art
(2007/04) Elemental Photography, Nicolas Ruel
(2007/04) Art Free-For-All: Gilbert & George
(2007/03) Re-Mediations by Stephen Foster and James Gillespie
(2007/03) E for Explosion: The Typewriter Disaster Series, Kagame Murray
(2007/03) Artful Giving: The Mount Sinai Hospital Collection
(2007/02) Return on Collecting: The Sender Art Collection
(2007/02) Wondering into the Enchanted Forest, Shary Boyle
(2007/02) Ghost Stories, Walter Redinger
(2007/01) Of Boys and Men, Daniel Barkley
(2007/01) A Body of Work: Kiki Smith
(2007/01) On Board with Collecting: Aaron Milrad
(2006/12) Search for an Urban Utopia
(2006/12) Alternative Art Collection
(2006/12) Creations Great and Small: Bill Burns
(2006/11) Collecting Conversations: Adam Lindemann
(2006/11) The Second Coming: The New New Painters
(2006/10) From Under a Veil of Darkness: Ed Pien
(2006/10) Banking on Art: The RBC Corporate Art Collection
(2006/10) Nature Taking Shape
(2006/09) Retrospective from the Edge, Jackson Pollock
(2006/09) In the Sphere of Collecting: Richard Williams of the Academy of Spherical Arts
(2006/09) Composite Foundation, Matthew Sweig
(2006/07) Warhol, in Fifteen Minutes. David Cronenberg on "Andy Warhol/Supernova" at the AGO
(2006/07) The Wall to Wall Collection: Salah J. Bashir
(2006/07) Painting Hope: Catherine McIntosh Jeffery, Molly Moldovan and Judith Myers
(2006/06) When Lens and Brush Meet
(2006/06) Disordered Epiphany: Sylvain Bouthillette at Clint Roenisch Gallery
(2006/06) A Collection of Pairings: The Mission Hill Family Estate Winery Collection
(2006/05) Miami Art Museum, James Rosenquist
(2006/05) Humanity vs. Technology, Chris Dorosz
(2006/05) Happenings
(2006/05) Cultural Translation, Maleonn
(2006/05) Collecting for Company
(2006/04) The High Concept No Concept Art
(2006/04) New School of Thought
(2006/04) Happenings
(2006/04) Collecting Family Tree
(2006/03) Vagina Dialogues, Natalie Munk
(2006/03) Spirited Away, Norval Morrisseau
(2006/03) Happenings
(2006/03) Femme Focus, Wangechi Mutu
(2006/03) Collecting Contemporaries
(2006/02) The Uncommon Common Collector
(2006/02) The More and the Less of Laurel Smith
(2006/02) The Best of Both Worlds, Anselm Kiefer
(2006/02) Leaders of the Pack
(2006/01) Spirit of a Collection: The Donovan Collection
(2006/01) Looking Up For What's Next, Jason McLean
(2006/01) Katalogue, Ray Caesar
(2006/01) Art in Motion: Pixar
(2005/12) Royal Redux
(2005/12) OCAD Exploring the Atmosphere
(2005/12) First Lady of the Arts, Hilary Weston
(2005/12) Collected Stories
(2005/12) Buying Into Art, Brian Jungen
(2005/12) Brave New AGO
(2005/12) A Dialogue In Solitude, Raphael Sottolichio
(2005/11) The Lasting Temptation, Dale Chihuly
(2005/11) Space Installation
(2005/11) Retro-Perspective, Jeff Wall
(2005/10) The Show At Hand, Klunder
(2005/10) Queens of Art With Heart
(2005/10) Pride and Painting
(2005/10) Contemporary Architects: Encounter the Tradition
(2005/09) Undressing War, Thomas Ackermann
(2005/09) The Passionate Collector, Jeff Stober
(2005/09) Abstraction in Extremes
(2005/09) A Minimal System, Micah Lexier
(2005/08) The Thousand-Year Plan, Douglas Coupland
(2005/08) Of Beasts and Beauty, Daniel Richter
(2005/08) Myth of Paper, Cy Twombly
(2005/08) Art on the Outside
(2005/08) Art For Healing
(2007/05) Recipe for Macho, Team Macho