Cooper Battersby // Mark Clintberg // Emily Vey Duke // Sarah Gotowka // Emily Gove // Terrance Houle // Roselina Hung // Sarah Anne Johnson // Jenny Lin // Hazel Meyer // Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf // Walter Scott

Central Gallery
April 8 to July 1, 2017

Curated by Zoë Chan

The category of youth is not a straightforward one. Beyond its designation of the stage of life between childhood and adulthood, it encompasses a complex multifaceted “imaginary”—one that is rich in analogous associations and imagery. In its most negative light, youth is denigrated as the incarnation of debauchery and excess, but in its most positive light, youth is idealized as the embodiment of pre-socialized authenticity, unbridled potential, creativity and freedom. The celebratory virtues typically associated with youth strikingly correspond with those sought after by many artists within their own art practices.

Claude Breeze // Geneviève Cadieux // Emily Carr // Geoffrey Farmer // Russell FitzGerald // Lawren Harris // Donald Jarvis // Glenn Ligon // Attila Richard Lukacs // Ron Martin // Gordon Payne // Margaret Peterson // Jerry Pethick // Marina Roy // Rudolf Schwarzkogler // Jack Shadbolt // Corin Sworn // Elizabeth Vander Zaag // Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun // William Woollett

Central Gallery
January 14 to March 25, 2017

Curated by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape looks at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery’s collection through the lens of today’s “post-humanist” discourse that questions the singularity and primacy of man, which has been the dominant view in the West since the Renaissance. At a time of impending catastrophe caused by the change in climate provoked by human activity, some say we now live in a geological age called the Anthropocene—the era when human activity has transformed the global climate. It is perhaps ironic that at this juncture, progressive scholars have come to question a basic assumption of the modern West, that man is the measure of all things.