Author Archives: stefan zebrowski-rubin
A Celebration of the Visual Arts: Art Month Sydney
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | March 12, 2010 | 0 Comments
On a cool overcast March morning, I navigated the streets of the heavily residential Elizabeth Bay neighborhood to find Michael Reid’s gallery and talk to the owner about his role as co-creator (with Vasili Kaliman of Kaliman Gallery) of Art Month Sydney. The initiative, now in its first year, celebrates the visual arts in Sydney [...]
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Scott Elk in Sydney
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | March 6, 2010 | 0 Comments
Billowing on banners, printed on posters and featured in multiple venues around Sydney, the artwork of Scott Elk is enjoying great exposure, and for good reason. The Sydney-born artist’s illustrations mix media from photography to screen prints, from design elements to typography. The modern amalgams instantly come across as multi-layered works reflecting a depth of [...]
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Showcasing Talent at the Australian Centre for Photography
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | February 20, 2010 | 0 Comments
Since I arrived in Sydney, arts-minded people of all walks of life have been pointing me towards the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP). For over 37 years, the ACP has been exhibiting works of both Australian and international photographers. My expectations were thus set reasonably high when I visited for the first time, for the [...]
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Retelling Histories at Artspace in Sydney
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | February 12, 2010 | 0 Comments
Since the early 1980s, Artspace Visual Arts Centre has established itself as a centre for residency-based contemporary installation art both by Australian and international artists. The three installations currently on display at Artspace only reinforces that fact. Each of the works serves as a rich deconstruction of history, exposing multiple layers of events past. With [...]
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Lynette Wallworth at the Sydney Festival
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments
PREFACE: I write to you from Sydney, Australia, my location for the next 6 months where I am trying my hand at a new adventure before pursuing my MA in Art History in the Fall. I am discovering a whole new art scene and deciphering a completely new national discourse. Below is my first Aussie [...]
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Raymonde April times four, in Montreal
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
To experience Raymonde April’s current exhibits is to experience the underpinnings of process, display and the creation of meaning. Equivalences 1-4, a not-so-subtle nod to Alfred Stieglitz’s Equivalent series, showcases four different bodies of work — 3 photo collections and 1 video work — in three different spaces in Montreal. April, who was awarded the [...]
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Representation Reconsidered in Montreal
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | December 4, 2009 | 0 Comments
Lately, I’ve noticed that colour and Quebec seem to go hand in hand. From the Claude Tousignant retrospective last year and the Francine Savard show currently at the MAC, colour has been the subject of objective consideration – not being used as a means to enliven a work of art but as a way to [...]
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Beyond the Canvas: Francine Savard at the Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
My brain was buzzing when I left the Francine Savard mid-career retrospective at the Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal (MACM) curated by Lesley Johnstone. The 60 works on display express intellectual and philosophical ideas with such refined and graphic precision. Savard’s work, obviously drawing from the local tradition of Plasticiens (a non-figurative movement which began [...]
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Adad Hannah in Montreal
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | November 4, 2009 | 3 Comments
I first came across the work of Adad Hannah at Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s inaugural triennial exhibition focusing on Quebec artists held over a year ago. Hannah’s photographs taken at the Prado Museum showed viewers (now subjects) engaged with the art in active ways: a woman leaned in to kiss a statue of Eros, [...]
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Carl Jung’s Red Book at the Rubin Museum of Art
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | October 19, 2009 | 8 Comments
Waking from wild and fantastical dreams, I try my hardest to write down all their details, attempting to unveil the hidden meaning within for myself. Yet, if I had lived before the 20th century, I may have been revolted and troubled by the images conjured up during sleep. In the early 20th century, Carl Jung [...]
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