Related Research Articles
Agnes Bernice Martin, was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist and was one of the leading practitioners of Abstract Expressionism in the 20th century. She was awarded a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004.
The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is an art museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The museum occupies a 15,300-square-metre-building (165,000 sq ft) adjacent to Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, making it the largest art museum in Western Canada by building size. Designed by Francis Rattenbury, the building the museum occupies was originally opened as a provincial courthouse, before it was re-purposed for museum use in the early 1980s. The building was designated the Former Vancouver Law Courts National Historic Site of Canada in 1980.
Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt was an abstract painter active in New York for more than three decades. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism. He was also a member of The Club, the meeting place for the New York School abstract expressionist artists during the 1940s and 1950s. He wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art and monochrome painting. Most famous for his "black" or "ultimate" paintings, he claimed to be painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint. He believed in a philosophy of art he called Art-as-Art and used his writing and satirical cartoons to advocate for abstract art and against what he described as "the disreputable practices of artists-as-artists".
Mona Hatoum is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London.
Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995. She lives and works in British Columbia, Canada.
Kenneth Robert Lum, OC DFA is a dual citizen Canadian and American academic, painter, photographer, sculptor, and writer. Working in a number of media including painting, sculpture and photography, his art ranges from conceptual in orientation to representational in character and is generally concerned with issues of identity in relation to the categories of language, portraiture and spatial politics.
Stan Douglas is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Bill Jones is a photographer, installation artist, performer and writer living in Los Angeles, CA. His work is concerned with light as both a physical phenomenon and a metaphorical figure. Jones was part of the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, along with such artists as Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace and Jeff Wall. Jones has three daughters; his youngest daughter is actress and screenwriter Zoe Lister-Jones. He is married to visual artist and writer Joy Garnett.
Lisa Steele is a Canadian artist, a pioneer in video art, educator, curator and co-founder of Vtape in Toronto. Born in the United States, Steele moved to Canada in 1968 and is now a Canadian citizen. She has collaborated exclusively with her partner Kim Tomczak since the early 1980s.
Rebecca Belmore D.F.A. is an interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist who is notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work. She is Ojibwe and a member of Obishikokaang. Belmore currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Canadian artist-run centres are galleries and art spaces developed by artists in Canada since the 1960s. Artist-run centre is the common term of use for artist-initiated and managed organizations in Canada. Most centres follow the not-for-profit arts organization model, do not charge admission fees, pay artists for their contributions are non-commercial and de-emphasize the selling of artwork.
Fiona Bowie is a Vancouver-based Canadian installation artist. She uses film, video, photography and sculpture, and makes "immersive environments".
Noah Becker is an American and Canadian artist, writer, publisher of Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, and jazz saxophonist who lives and works in New York City. He is a contributing writer for Art in America Magazine, Canadian Art Magazine and the Huffington Post.
"Paul Wong is a Canadian multimedia artist. An award-winning artist, curator, and organizer of public interventions since the mid-1970s, Wong is known for his engagement with issues of race, sex, and death. His work varies from conceptual performances to narratives, meshing video, photography, installation, and performance with Chinese-Canadian cultural perspectives".
Jamelie Hassan is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist, lecturer, writer and independent curator.
Hank Bull D.F.A. is a Canadian artist, curator, organizer and arts administrator.
Gu Xiong is a Canadian contemporary artist.
Shelagh Keeley is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist. She is best known for her drawings and immersive installations, but her practice also includes photography, film, collaborative performances, and artist's books.
Shelagh Alexander was a Canadian photographic artist based in Toronto, Ontario, known for her large scale “compilation photographs”.
Jayce Salloum is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist.
References
- 1 2 "Jeanette Reinhardt - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ↑ "Remembering the Mainstreeters". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 7 January 2015. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ↑ Kevin Griffin Updated (9 January 2015). "The Mainstreeters brought a DIY ethic to Vancouver's art scene - Vancouver Sun". Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ↑ Bruce Barber; Serge Guilbaut; John O'Brian (1996). Voices of Fire: Art, Rage, Power, and the State. University of Toronto Press. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-0-8020-7803-2.
- ↑ Carole Roy (22 March 2016). Documentary Film Festivals: Transformative Learning, Community Building & Solidarity. Springer. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-94-6300-480-0.
- ↑ "Video: New Canadian Narrative". Archived from the original on 2019-05-06. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- ↑ "Jeanette Reinhardt". www.gallery.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
| International | |
|---|---|
| Artists | |
