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Nuvo Magazine: Archival Echoes: The Art of Jennifer Carvalho

“Toronto painter Jennifer Carvalho’s study of the work, An archive of gestures (garden enclosure), 2025, might be the most extreme excision of the original yet. In her precise rendering of the weaving in oil on canvas, which measures five by six and a half feet, Carvalho has faithfully recreated each stem, stamen, petal, and pistil of the flowers growing in the artwork’s verdant enclosed garden—but the unicorn itself, a symbol so relentlessly scrutinized and saddled with projected meaning, has vanished without a trace.” —Rosie Prata



CBC: Small Canadian galleries exhibiting at Art Basel ... in this economy?

“Franz Kaka — a memorable handle that's equal parts literary allusion and punk stage name — has been exhibiting at international fairs since 2018. Most recently, the gallery participated in Milan's miart, showing works by Jennifer Carvalho, and Frieze London with Lotus L. Kang.” — Chris Hampton


Wallpaper*: 12 things not to miss at Art Basel 2025

“Opulently decorated doors — two authentic Art Deco toilet stall doors and one illusionistic trompe-l’oeil painting — are central to Elif Saydam’s dissonant installation with Franz Kaka at Art Basel Statements. Drawing from the visual language of Persian miniature painting and referencing texts like Jami’s Haft Awrang, the doors are framed as an allegory of capitalism’s bait-and-switch logic.” — Sofia Hallström


CBC: This artist finds clues hidden in the details of Renaissance paintings

“The final motif is perhaps the most striking. Alone and in groups, Carvalho paints women crying. Divorced from their original circumstances, the nature of their tears — either from rapturous joy or intense sorrow — is made ambiguous.” — Chris Hampton



ArtNet: Jennifer Carvalho Brings the Women of Old Master Paintings to Life

“The slowness of her process gives the works a crystalized, distant quality, as though we were viewing these women through a rain-touched window or like a photograph pushed to the point of pixelation.” — Katie White


Ocula Magazine: Toronto Critic’s Pick: Jennifer Carvalho at Franz Kaka

"Here, it seems, the joy of painting is alive and well. These are painter's paintings, made by an artist looking down the barrel of the canon and showing us what she likes best.” — Elliat Albrecht

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