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List Of Canadian Artists
The following is a list of Canadian artists working in visual or plastic media (including 20th-century artists working in video art, performance art, or other types of new media). See other articles for information on Canadian literature, music, cinema and culture. For more specific information on the arts in Canada, see Canadian art. ThArtists in Canada Reference Libraryprovides an in-depth list of Canadian artists and the museums who feature them. The following is a brief list of some important Canadian artists and groups of artists: Individuals A * Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, installation art * Kirsten Abrahamson (born 1960), ceramist * Una Stella Abrahamson (1922-1999), artist, writer * K. C. Adams (born 1971), multimedia artist * Kim Adams (born 1951), sculptor * Marilla Adams (1864-1966), painter * Michael Adamson (born 1971), painter * Catherine Addai, Ghanaian-Canadian fashion designer * Marc Adornato (born 1977), painting, sculpting, performance and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Art
Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast; installation art, installations viewed in galleries or museums; works either streamed online, or distributed as video tapes, or on DVDs; and performances which may incorporate one or more television sets, video monitors, and projections, displaying live or recorded images and sounds. Video art is named for the original analog video tape, which was the most commonly used recording technology in much of the form's history into the 1990s. With the advent of digital recording equipment, many artists began to explore digital technology as a new way of expression. Video art does not necessarily rely on the conventions that define theatrical cinema. It may not use actors, may contain no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latcholassie Akesuk
Latcholassie Akesuk (1919–2000) was an Inuk sculptor. Early life and family He was born in 1919, on Aiaktalik Island in the Northwest Territories. His father Akesuk Tudlik (1890–1966) was a renowned sculptor, as was his brother, Solomonie Tigullaraq. His granddaughter Saimaiyu Akesuk (born 1988) is also a sculptor. Career He began carving alongside his father in the early 1950s, and was particularly influenced by his father's owls. He carved using the green stone common on Dorset Island around Kinngait. His work is held in a variety of museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Inuit Art, the University of Lethbridge Art Collection, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is one of the largest university art museums in the United States, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with . Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alu .... Later life He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Andersen
Helen Andersen (July 14, 1919 – December 23, 1995) was a Canadian artist. While best known for expressionist paintings about Pacific Northwest coast Indigenous peoples, she worked in varied styles. Her subjects were often women, themes expressing her convictions about social justice and strong anti-war sentiments. Life and career Born Helen Severson McKay Anderson in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada, she began painting in her teens, with some instruction from her physician father Dr. William Edmund Anderson, himself a "capable artist". Like her father, Andersen chose medicine as her profession, graduating as a Registered Nurse in 1940 from the Regina General Hospital School of Nursing. While working as a nurse she took art classes in her free time at the Vancouver School of Art, the University of British Columbia and the Victoria College of Art. She was eventually able to devote herself to her craft full time after receiving a grant from the Community Arts Council (V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Arnaktauyok
Germaine Arnaktauyok (born in Maniitsoq, Greenland in 1946) is an Inuit, Inuk printmaker, painter, and drawer originating from the Igloolik area of Nunavut, then the Northwest Territories. Arnaktauyok drew at an early age with any source of paper she could find. The media she works with consists of Lithography, lithographs, etchings, and Screen printing, serigraphs that illustrate Inuit mythology, Inuit myths and traditional ways of life from her past experiences and ancestral culture. Her designs are two-dimensional revealing expressive line work illustrations that indicate personal stories incorporated in the subject of past Inuit tales. Family Until the mid 1960s, she lived with her family in a camp inland from the town where Pinniped, seals and caribou were plentiful for hunting. Therese Nattok and Isidore Iytok, the mother and father of Germaine Arnaktauyok, are talented carvers that contributed to the Inuit style of art. Arnaktauyok was the third of eight children. She wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyne Alloucherie
Jocelyne Alloucherie, (born February 8, 1947) is a Canadian sculptor who explores the relationships between sculpture, architecture and photography through installations. Career Born in Mont-Apica, Quebec, she spent many of her early years in Chicoutimi and moved to Quebec City before 1961. She studied for short periods at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Quebec between 1961 and 1965. She studied visual arts at Laval University and graduated with her B.F.A. (1971–73). She held a solo show of her work at the Musee du Quebec in 1973. In 1974, she began teaching plastic arts courses at Laval University part-time, while devoting her free time to her own art. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1981 from Concordia University.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada She has taught visual arts and art history at the Laval Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Alleyn
Edmund Alleyn (June09, 1931 December24, 2004) had an art career that underwent many stylistic changes. He explored various styles of painting including abstraction, narrative figuration, technology and pop art, as well as different media.Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Acquisition Proposal for Edmund Alleyn’s Anatomy of a Sigh; The Ephemerides and All Night Long III, accession #41640; #41680, and #41641, Curatorial File, National Gallery of Canada Critics feel that his inability to be categorized marks him as contemporary. Even more important, they say that he helped remove excessive compartmentalization from art practice. Early years Born in Québec City in 1931 to a family of English and Irish heritage, Edmund Alleyn attended the École des beaux-arts in Québec City, where he studied with Jean-Paul Lemieux and Jean Dallaire. In 1955, he won the Grand Prix aux concours artistiques de la Province de Québec and a grant from the Royal Society of Canada. Career From 1955 to 1970, Alle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Allen (painter, Born 1926)
Ralph Allen (1926 – March 26, 2019) was a Canadian painter. Biography Allen was born in 1926 in Raunds, Northamptonshire, England. He graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1954). In 1957, he began working at Queen’s University. From 1963 to 1973, Allen was director of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's University. He was a professor of art in the Fine Arts department (1972–87), and finally professor emeritus on his retirement in 1987. His work in the 1990s was in partnership with the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP) at Queen's Faculty of Education, and he taught on reserves in Moose Factory and Kasabonika in 1995. Allen exhibited in 15 shows prior to 1973, receiving several Canada Council grants, gaining critical attention through publications such as ''Canadian Art''. He did not show his work again until after his retirement, with four shows of new works in the early 1990s. In 1990 he exhibited his work at the Agnes Etherington A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Alcock-White
Amelia Alcock-White (born 1981) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver. Career Alcock-White studied fine art at Vancouver Island University, Emily Carr University of Art and Design and with American Realist painter Bo Bartlett in Columbus, Georgia. She is known for her oil paintings depicting water, myths, philosophy, and the British Columbia Coast. Her work has been described as a "passionate collection of paintings that explore rebirth, identity, history, and humanity's origins." Her work is "characterized by an elegant balance between mythical and realistic imagery. The tightly woven, reflective waters of her canvases are overlaid with figurative narratives and the result is a body of work that is both beautiful and, at times, haunting." Her style has also been described as a combination of representationalism, realism and naturalism, and "takes the form of illustrational depictions of happiness using stylized, personal exaggerations and distortions...an ideal romantic world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Martin Alfsen
John Martin Alfsen , known more commonly as John Alfsen (December23, 1902November 30, 1971) was a painter, known for his portraits, figurative work and paintings of circus life. Biography John Martin Alfsen was born in Long Rapids, Michigan, and emigrated to Canada in 1913 as a boy of 11, settling in Toronto.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada. He studied at the Ontario College of Art with Arthur Lismer, F. H. Varley and J.W. Beatty (1920–1922), then at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. Following his year in Europe, he took further study at the Art Students' League, New York, under Kenneth Hayes Miller (1925). He taught at the Ontario College of Art from 1926 to 1971. For two years, he lived in Sarasota where he taught and pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelmina Alexander (artist)
Wilhelmina "Mina" Alexander (July 2, 1871 – November 7, 1961) was a Canadian oil painter and philanthropist from Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario. Alexander's painting consists primarily of landscapes, still-life scenes, and studies of nature both aquatic and land-based. She has exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Royal Canadian Academy, the Women's International Exhibition (Detroit), and the Art Association of Montreal between 1929 and 1935. Prior to this, she served as president of the Women's Art Association of Canada, in her hometown of Hamilton. Despite Alexander's brief tenure as president, she remained involved with the association for many decades. In 1953, Alexander was involved in the decision to create a new art gallery in Hamilton. Alexander also took to supporting young artists by allowing them to hang their work alongside hers in exhibitions held in her home. Her painting style has been described as colourful and vibrant, especially with respect t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikky Alexander
Vikky Alexander (born January 30, 1959) is a Canadian contemporary artist who now lives in Montreal. She is a member of the Vancouver School and was a Professor of photography in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria in Canada. She has retired from teaching and now holds the title professor emerita. She has exhibited internationally since 1981 as a practitioner in the field of photo-conceptualism, and as an installation artist who uses photography, drawing, and collage. Her themes include the appropriated image, and the deceptions of nature and space. Her artworks include mirrors, photographic landscape murals, postcards, video and photography. She is part of the Pictures Generation. Background Alexander was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from which she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1979. Work Alexander is known for her large scale photo-mural installations and multimedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David T
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as " House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', '' Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 32; Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
