This Fall (2014) Czech-born artist Vera Frenkel will present the reinstallation of several of her pivotal works at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto. Works on show will include her famous From The Transit Bar, 1992, which was first shown at Documenta 9 in Kassel and is now a part of the National Gallery of Canada's collection. Other important works will include South to the Water, North to the Sky and Once Near Water. Points of Departure: Vera Frenkel Words and Works is the ambitious new publication to accompany the exhibition, addressing Frenkel's ongoing use of voice and character throughout her practice. Whether making works that speak from the perspective of Vera Frenkel the 'story-teller', Vera Frenkel the unheard feminist artist or Vera Frenkel, one of many artists alienated by discriminating arts funding in Canada, Frenkel's works consistently address the injustices and inequalities within contemporary art practice.The book acknowledges the artist's influence on Canadian contemporary art and the importance of her early video works as well as addressing other core themes in here practice such as absence and presence, the use of language, and the marginalization Canada's first nations populations.

The world in bold; Newfoundland in abstract."It is the landscape that endures, it is the landscape that remains in control." -- Ned PrattWith Ned Pratt, there is no nostalgia, no romance, no theatre. His interest in the Newfoundland landscape forms the foundation for his photography.Pratt's approach to the act of looking transcends place. He distills the landscape into abstractions of form and colour. Disrupting depth with close architectural details and incisions of poles and wires, he undermines the traditional, romantic notion of "looking out" to sublime geometry.Ned Pratt: One Wave charts a decade of Pratt's breathtaking photography. Echoing Pratt's aesthetic, this beautifully designed book presents Pratt's works in formal conversation with each other. Stark imagery of buildings is juxtaposed with forays into abstraction and celebrations of the inherent geometry of natural forms -- whether a single wave crashing over a wall or stones cracked by freezing and thawing.