Exponential Future update

As promised, Vancouver-based art critic, curator at CSA Space and owner of my fave Van. book store, Pulp Fiction, Christopher Brayshaw weighs in with a named review of the Belkin gallery’s Exponential Future show which caused so much broohaha a few weeks ago:

Exponential Future, the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery’s new survey of emerging Vancouver art, is a failure of artistic and institutional nerve. “Curators Juan Gaitan and Scott Watson chose artists working in different media whose work involved a wide range of issues to give an overview of the new artistic thinking of our time and place,” claims an unsigned gallery press release. “The curators were interested in works that engaged the complex reality of urban life at the beginning of the twenty-first century.” This thesis would make a first-rate show, but bears only passing resemblance to the exhibition Gaitan and Watson have assembled.

You can find the full review on his Anodyne blog here.