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Visual Arts
 Allyson Mitchell
September 2009 - February 2010
International Studio and Curatorial Program
Congratulations to Allyson Mitchell, who has been selected by the Canada Council for the Arts as the next artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn. Mitchell works in sculpture, installation, and film, melding feminism and pop culture to play with contemporary ideas about autobiography and the body. She has exhibited in galleries and festivals across Canada, the US, Europe, and East Asia, and she recently completed her PhD in Women's Studies at York University.
Self Portrait, 2003.
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 Miles Coolidge: Surface Tension
Through May 16, 2010
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
Web: www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection features contemporary artists who exploit the apparent contradiction between the photograph as window and the photograph as object. `Accident Investigation Site,` a work from Montreal-born conceptual photographer Miles Coolidge, is included. Coolidge photographed a section of the shoulder of a Los Angeles highway piece by piece and then assembled the images digitally into a single mural-size image. The resulting image recreates the surface of the roadside site with unnerving precision and seemingly infinite detail.
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 David Altmejd: Between Spaces
Through April 2010
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave (at the intersection of 46th Ave)
Long Island City
(718) 784-2084
Web: www.ps1.org
Montreal-born artist David Altmejd, winner of the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2009, incorporates elements of fantasy and the grotesque into his larger-than-life sculptures. His work is included in the group show, Between Spaces, at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. The show brings together 11 emerging and established artists who remove familiar objects from their traditional functions, suggesting new contexts and possibilities.
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Ross Racine
January 12 - February 20
International Print Center New York
526 W. 26th Street, room 824
Web: www.ipcny.org
Montreal`s Ross Racine's inkjet prints of aerial views of fictional suburbs are drawn freehand on the computer. Subverting the apparent rationality of urban design and exposing conflicts that lie beneath the surface, these digital drawings present a new way of thinking about design, the city, and society as a whole. Racine's work is included in the New Prints - Winter 2010 exhibition at the International Print Center. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, January 14, from 6 to 8 pm.
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 Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
January 29 - May 9
January 29 - May 9
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas (at 43rd Street)
Web: www.icp.org
This month the International Center of Photography features Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place, an intimate exhibition of black-and-white photographs by the little-known Montreal-based photographer Alan B. Stone (1928-1992). Curated by Montreal native David Deitcher, the exhibition combines a selection of images from Stone's vocation as a commercial physique photographer with his oblique and enigmatic pictures of Montreal from the 1950s to the 1970s. His photographs demonstrate that the place one associates with "home" endures at the confluence of time and space, geography and history, politics and the law, and the vicissitudes of memory, desire, and the imagination.
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 Gareth Long: Section Man
Through February 27
Kate Werble Gallery
83 Vandam Street (at Hudson Street)
Web: www.katewerblegallery.com
Toronto native and conceptual artist Gareth Long explores translation, narrative, and medium-specificity in his work. Section Man, his first solo show in New York, features three series of works about books, including several lenticular (holographic) prints. Long uses authors J.D. Salinger and Gustave Flaubert as starting points for investigations into originality and expanded notions of "reading."
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 One Part Human
Through February 13
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
31 Mercer Street (between Canal and Grand Streets)
Web: www.feldmangallery.com
One Part Human brings together artists who explore the tension between human and technological capabilities in today`s scientific society. The exhibition includes two remarkable motorized sculptures by Canadian artists: Perfect Vehicle by Simone Jones; and Robotic Chair, conceived by visual artist Max Dean and realized with Raffaello D`Andrea and Matt Donovan. These inventive sculptures - a vehicle powered by its driver`s breath and a robotic chair that collapses and reconstructs without human intervention - are at the cutting edge of contemporary art.
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 Stephen Schofield: Stumble
Through February 23
The Visual Arts Gallery, NJCU
100 Culver Avenue
Jersey City, NJ
Web: www.njcu.edu
Through February 23, New Jersey City University presents the work of Montreal artist Stephen Schofield. His show Stumble is a site-specific installation of inflated fabric sculptures, created by mapping a male model and then expertly tailoring oversized dolls out of old clothes. The unnerving yet beautiful sculptures explore the mind, memory, and play.
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 Johnny Lee: Sensorial Realities
February 2 - 23
Agora Gallery
530 W. 25th Street (between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues)
Web: www.agora-gallery.com
Canadian artist Johnny Lee creates impeccable graphite drawings of growling grizzlies, willowy horses, and proud native warriors. His work is included in Agora Gallery's new exhibition Sensorial Realities, featuring four artists whose work explores the human condition. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 4, from 6 to 8 pm.
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 Sky Pape: Water Works: Surface Tension
February 5 - March 5
June Kelly Gallery
166 Mercer Street (between Houston and Prince Streets)
Web: /www.junekellygallery.com
Toronto-born artist Sky Pape examines traditional drawing materials through unconventional methods: she works on the floor and blows ink through tubes and funnels onto handmade paper. Pape`s work is widely exhibited and is included in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
An opening reception for her solo exhibition Water Works will be held on Friday, February 5, from 6 to 8 pm.
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