If you enjoyed Daniel Barrow‘s installation at the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal during the recent Sobey Art Award show, you will love the Good Gets Better exhibition currently running at SBC Gallery. The installation component at SBC is less ambitious than the one displayed in the vast rooms of the MAC, but the projected images are no less engaging. However, this exhibition focuses more on the intricate drawings which form the basis of Barrow’s body of work. If you caught his one-hour performance titled Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry at the MAC last December, the imagery on display may be quite familiar to you. Beautifully rendered drawings in muted colours tell Barrow’s very personal tale of addiction to eye medication, his tumultuous childhood, and his struggles with his sexuality. There is a sorrowful tension between the ornate, slightly dreamy quality of his drawings and the dark anguish they depict.

You can catch a reprise of Barrow’s performance of Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry at the MAC in March, and I strongly suggest you attend!

Wednesday March 16, 2011, 7 p.m.
Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry
At the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Salle BWR
Free (in English)

SBC Gallery
space 507
Daniel Barrow
Good Gets Better
February 12 – March 19, 2011
www.sbcgallery.ca