Monica Tap

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Monica Tap
Born
Monica Tap

1962
Education Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Known for Painter
Website monicatap.com

Monica Tap (born 1962) is a Canadian painter, artist and educator. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, and teaches at the University of Guelph. She is known for engaging and challenging conventions concerning landscape and still-life painting. [1]

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Biography

Tap was born in Edmonton, Alberta. [2] She attended the Alberta College of Art, University of Alberta (1986), and NSCAD University for her BFA (1990), and MFA (1996). She studied Fine Arts with Gerald Ferguson. [1] [3] Tap is also a professor at the University of Guelph in the School of Fine Art and Music. [4] [5]

Artistic career

Tap often uses photographs and video stills as source material for her paintings. For instance, in her work for the exhibition Running on Empty, she peered out of window of a car, and used a digital camera to record the landscape ("at the Mpeg standard format of 15 frames per second" as Heather Nicol, the author of the catalogue, said). The resulting images are blurred and though not abstract, are toward abstraction. [6] Barry Schwabsky has noted that "her art offers one of the richest and most original revisionary instances of how the temporality of the act of looking can continue to keep painting in motion today". [7]

She has exhibited her work across Canada and abroad, and is currently represented by MKG127 in Toronto and Peter Robertson Gallery in Edmonton. [3]

Selected awards and honours

Collections

Monica Tap's works are included in many public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Art Gallery of Guelph, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (NYC, Berlin), Canada House (London, UK), Bank of Montréal, TELUS, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts, ESSO Imperial Oil Canada, CIBC Mellon, University of Toronto, Würth Collection (Germany), and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. [8]

Publications

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References

  1. 1 2 Tousley, Nancy Monica Tap: Painting and Perception Monica Tap Paintings ed. Susan Harrison. Montreal: ABC Art Books Canada, 2004. 11-21 Exhibition Catalogue
  2. "Monica Tap Further: Paintings by Monica Tap". Southern Alberta Art Gallery. 2004. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Monica Tap" (PDF). www.uoguelph.ca. U Guelph. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  4. Dundas, Deborah (15 August 2020). "Two modes of seeing: David Milne and Emily Carr coexist in a single painting". The Star. Archived from the original on 1 June 2021. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  5. "Monica Tap - Professor, Studio Art". University of Guelph . Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  6. Nicol, Heather (2015). Running on Empty. Oshawa: Robert McLaughlin Gallery. p. 15. ISBN   9781926589855 . Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  7. Schwabsky, Barry (2014). Monica Tap: The Pace of Days. Guelph: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. pp. 8–13. ISBN   978-1-926875-04-0 . Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  8. "Monica Tap". MKG127. Archived from the original on 1 June 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2023.