Gathering Fictions: A Dialogue on Painting
Gathering Fictions: A Dialogue on Painting At the Varley Art Gallery of Markham Janet Jones and Michel Daigneault are contemporary painters who question and challenge our understanding of abstraction. Aware of and informed by historical and formal defi …
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Sans faire abstrait, an exhibition on contemporary painting organized by Galerie Art Mûr in Montréal
Sans faire abstrait, an exhibition on contemporary painting organized by Galerie Art Mûr in Montréal Much of the discourse of painting has been obsessed with making clear distinctions between abstract and representational painting. A battery of new ter …
Michel Daigneault at McBride Contemporain
Michel Daigneault at McBride Contemporain Michel Daigneault’s art practice has for many years focused on Investigating what constitutes abstraction today and thereby exploring how abstraction relates to larger social forces. Michel Daigneault has exhib …
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Holly Ward – humynatur3 Exhibition
Holly Ward’s humynatur3 explores the dissolution of Nature/Culture distinctions as emergent in the Anthropocene, a new geological era wherein human activity has influenced the course of all non-human systems, towards unprecedented outcomes. In this con …
Professor David Armstrong recently hosted a photogravure workshop
Professor David Armstrong recently hosted a photogravure workshop at the Department of Visual Art and Art History’s Print Media Studios (May 20-23). Photogravure, a 19th C. hybrid photo/printmaking process, has seen a resurgence in recent years and has been part of the focus of his 4 year Canada Council Grant, (After Images, 2012-16), exploring a hybrid of historical and contemporary printmaking, photography, and digital imaging techniques.
Yvonne Singer ‘pictures wellness’ with installations
Two works by Professor Yvonne Singer are featured in Picturing Wellness, an exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ont. running December 17, 2015 to March 26, 2016. The show focuses on a medical humanities perspective as the bridge betwe …
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Alumni talent at Nuit Blanche
Visual Arts alumna Elle Flanders (PhD ’14, BA ’88) and her collaborative art practice ensemble Public Studio present their latest new media work, Zero Hour at 2015 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto. Created with Lebanese artist and poet Etel Adnan and sound artist Anna Friz, Zero Hour is a meditation on weather, climate change and the effects of northern extraction on the southern hemisphere.
New works by Professor Michel Daigneault will be showcased at the second edition of Feature Contemporary Art Fair
New works by Professor Michel Daigneault will be showcased at the second edition of Feature Contemporary Art Fair, dedicated exclusively to leading contemporary art. The event takes place October 22 to 25, 2015 in the Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre in Toronto.
