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Visual Arts
 Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman
March 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010
Outdoor Sculpture Garden
Elizabeth Street (above Spring Street)
Web: www.marmco.com
Canadian large-format sculptors Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman bring In Sit You (first installed in the Toronto Sculpture Garden in 2006) to New York. The piece (pictured), which employs a Tri-Vision billboard composed of three-inch wide vertical panels that rotate to produce three different images, will be installed in SoHo`s Outdoor Sculpture Garden from March 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010.
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 Annie Pootoogook
Through January 10, 2010
National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green, across from Battery Park
(212) 514-3700
Web: www.americanindian.si.edu
Contemporary Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook creates detailed drawings of everyday life in her home community of Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Her work is infused with intimate emotions as she captures moments both sublime and tragic; her drawings often confront the harsh realities of poverty, addiction, and abuse. Pootoogook won the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2006 and subsequently exhibited at the 2007 Biennale de Montreal, the Basel Art Fair, and documenta 12. Organized by the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, this exhibit is Pootoogook`s largest to date in the United States.
A curator talk will be given on Thursday, August 20th, at 5 pm in the Contemporary Art Gallery on the 2nd floor. Curator Nancy Campbell will lead visitors through the exhibit and discuss the history and development of her works.
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 Marcel Dzama: Compass in Hand
Through January 4, 2010
The Museum of Modern Art
Contemporary Galleries, 2nd floor
11 W. 53 Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Web: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/311
A favorite among the art, literary, and indie music scenes, Winnipeg native Marcel Dzama is best known for his figurative compositions of pen and watercolor on manila-colored paper. Bearing a characteristic palette of muted colors, Dzama`s drawings are populated by an expansive cast of human, animal, and hybrid characters. His work is included in MoMA`s Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, now extended through January 4, 2010. His work is also featured in the recently published Even the Ghost of the Past (pictured), a two-volume book designed in collaboration with Dzama.
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 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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 Stan Douglas: Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
October 2, 2009 - January 17, 2010
The International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
(212) 857-0000
Web: www.icp.org/
The International Center of Photography (ICP)`s signature exhibition, the Triennial, surveys the most exciting and challenging new work in photography and video. This third installment focuses on artists whose work addresses the idea of fashion in the broadest sense possible. The exhibition will feature 33 artists from 17 countries around the world, including Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas. Douglas is a provocative installation and video artist whose work explores social reality through the historical narratives of location.
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 Ross Racine
October 30 - December 12
International Print Center New York
526 W. 26th Street, room 824
(212) 989-5090
Web: http://www.ipcny.org/
Montreal native Ross Racine has gained attention for his inkjet prints of aerial views of fictional suburbs drawn freehand on his computer. Subverting the apparent rationality of urban design and exposing the conflicts that lie beneath its surface, these digital drawings are a comment on the fears and the dreams of suburban culture. His work will be shown in the New Prints - Fall 2009 exhibition at the International Print Center. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, October 29, from 6 - 8 pm.
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 David Antonides
November 1 - 30
Broadfoot and Broadfoot Gallery
484 Broome Street (between Wooster and West Broadway)
New York`s Broadfoot and Broadfoot Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new work by Vancouver artist David Antonides. Antonides' watercolors reveal an understanding of strength and energy not normally associated with the typically fragile medium. His large format paintings explore the urban landscape, while capturing the sense of life and spirit that cities possess. An opening reception will be held November 15th from 2 to 6 pm.
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 Blake
October 30 - November 25
DLC Fine Arts
606 W. 26th Street (at Twelfth Avenue)
(212) 966-3897
Internationally acclaimed Canadian artist Blake presents an exhibition of his bronze sculptures at DLC Fine Arts this month. The show pays tribute to and challenges contemporary perceptions of human rights, drawing from Judeo-Christian imagery and art practices. An opening reception will be held Friday, October 30, from 7 to 10 pm
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 Moyra Davey: My Necropolis
November 7 - December 24
Murray Guy
453 West 17th Street (between Ninth and Tenth Avenues)
Web: www.murrayguy.com/
Canadian artist and photographer Moyra Davey presents My Necropolis, her first solo show in New York since 2003. The show will feature a new series of photographs and a new film, as well as a selection of photographs from the past 20 years of Moyra`s practice. The new material was produced with support from the Canada Council on the Arts while Moyra was in residency at the Cite des Arts in Paris last year. An opening reception will be held Saturday, November 7, from 6 to 8 pm.
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 Jason McLean
Through December 6
LaViolaBank Gallery
179 East Broadway (between Rutgers and Jefferson Streets)
www.laviolabank.com
Toronto-based artist Jason McLean was recently chosen by MacLean`s magazine as one of the top 10 visual artists to watch in Canada. His drawings, rich in memories and text, are well known in the international zine and comic book community. He presents his solo show, `Aunt Jean`s Buns,` at LaViolaBank Gallery.
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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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 NMAI Art Market
Saturday, December 5 and Sunday, December 6, 10 am - 5 pm
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Diker Pavilion
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House
Tickets: One Bowling Green
(212) 514-3700
The art market at the National Museum of the American Indian offers a unique shopping opportunity for visitors to purchase traditional and contemporary works by some of the finest Native artists. Work includes silver and semiprecious jewelry, ceramics, fine apparel, hand-woven baskets, traditional beadwork, dolls dressed in Native regalia, paintings, prints, and sculpture. Native Canadian artists will be participating, including Dorothy Grant (Haida); Glen Nipshank (Bigstone Cree); Carla and Babe Hemlock (Mohawk Kahnawake); and Ben, Clifton, Leroy, and Loreene Henry (Cayuga - sculpture pictured).
Free admission.
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 Jon Pylypchuk
December 10 - January 30
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
537 W. 22nd Street (between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues)
(212) 680-9467
Web: www.petzel.com
Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk has shown internationally both solo and with the Royal Art Lodge, an artist collective founded by fellow Canadian Marcel Dzama. His sculptures, paintings, and collages feature an invented cast of animal characters suffering from aesthetic injuries and misfortunes. The Guardian (UK) says his `freakish outsiders reflect our own physical and spiritual frailties.`
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