|
RBC Canadian Painting Competition
__NOTOC__ The RBC Canadian Painting Competition was an open competition for emerging Canadian artists that was established in 1999. The RBC Canadian Painting Competition is supported by the Canadian Art Foundation, the publisher of Canadian Art (magazine). Initially naming three regional winners, since 2004 there were one national winner and two honourable mentions. The first two competitions had only winner and runner-up. The competition had 15 finalists, five from three regions in Canada, Eastern Canada (Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, Newfoundland and Labrador), Central Canada (Ontario), Western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut). Three regional juries convened to determine one national winner and two honourable mentions from the 15 finalists. The national winner received a purchase prize of $25,000, the two honourable mentions each received $15,000 and the remaining 12 finalists receive $2,500 each. The win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Art (magazine)
''Canadian Art'' was a quarterly art magazine published in Toronto and focused on Canadian contemporary art. The magazine published profiles of artists, art news, interviews, editorials, and reviews of modern art exhibitions. Established in 1943 it was known as ''artscanada'' between 1968 and 1983. History With assistance from the Carnegie Corporation, Acadia University professor Walter Abell established the Maritime Art Association's publication ''Maritime Art'' in 1940. Violet Gillett was also instrumental in the creation and production of the magazine. With assistance from the National Gallery of Canada the magazine changed its name to ''Canadian Art'' in 1943 focusing on Canadian and international art. Under the editorship of Paul Arthur and Barry Lord the name was changed to ''artscanada'' in 1967. In 1983, the publisher Society for Art Publications ceased operations and the name was changed back to ''Canadian Art''. Struggling financially, the magazine was purchased by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanda Koop
Wanda Koop is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Life Koop was born on November 5, 1951 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Russian Mennonite parents who had escaped the Russian Revolution. Koop graduated from the Lemoine FitzGerald School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg in 1973. In 2002 Koop was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, in 2005 she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, in 2006 she was appointed a member of the Order of Canada, and in 2016 she received the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Koop and her mother were the subjects of the 2007 documentary ''Wanda Koop: In Her Eyes'' about their visit to the Ukraine, where Koop's mother was born. Work While still studying at the University of Manitoba School of Art, in 1972, Koop's work was included in an exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Koop was the subject of numerous solo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabella Campbell
Arabella Campbell is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1996, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (renamed in 2008) in 2002. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1998 to 2000."New public art adds colour to city spaces," accessed March 14, 2017, http://vancouverpublicspace.ca/2011/02/02/new-public-art-adds-colour-to-city-spaces/ She has exhibited locally,"THE MONOCHROMATIC FIELD: WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION & THE MOLNAR COLLECTION: A VIEW OF EUROPEAN ART," Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, accessed March 15, 2017, http://belkin.ubc.ca/past/TheMonochromaticField"Everything Everyday," Vancouver Art Gallery, accessed March 15, 2017, https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_everything_everyday.html "By Invitation Only: Arabella Campbell's Frameworks for Perception," by Cindy Richmond for Artspeak, May 23, 2008, http://a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Bond
Eleanor Bond (born 25 March 1948) is a Canadian multimedia artist and art educator who is best known for reworking the Canadian landscape tradition using a new ecological awareness. Early life Eleanor Bond was born in Winnipeg to pharmacist Herbert Bond and teacher Mildred MacFarlane. She graduated from the School of Art, University of Manitoba in 1976. A previous undergraduate degree included studies in English, comparative religion and interior design. Work In the early 1980s, Bond produced aerial views of natural sites showing ecological disruption. In her ''Work Station'' (1989) and ''Social Centres'' (1992) bodies of work, Bond explored the impact of technological advances and urban design on humankind by producing staged, fictitious landscapes and built urban environments. She used lengthy, ironic titles in her earlier work. These large-scale, unstretched canvases suggested that the city is an imaginary place with landscapes that existed as in-between spaces. Recent pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mélanie Rocan
Mélanie Rocan (born 1980) is a Canadian artist from La Broquerie, Manitoba. She works mostly in various paint mediums. She also has been known to work in multimedia, especially when working collaboratively. Education Rocan began her undergraduate education at the University of Ottawa in 1999, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the University of Manitoba in 2003. Having gone on exchange to Glasgow School of Art in 2005, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University's painting program in 2008. Career Besides her exhibition career, Rocan has held the Deep Bay Artists’ Residency in 2014. During this residency, Rocan worked with other Two Six member, Shaun Morin, to create collaborative mixed media works. Rocan is also an occasional professor for the University of Manitoba where she teaches drawing classes. Rocan is a three time finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition across Canada before its conclusion in 2019. She was a fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Akhavan
Abbas Akhavan is a Montreal-based visual artist. His recent work consists of site-specific installations, sculpture, video, and performance, consistently in response to the environment in which the work is created. Akhavan was born in Tehran, Iran in 1977. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2004 and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in 2006. Akhavan's family immigrated to Canada from Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. His work has gained international acclaim, exhibiting in museums, galleries and biennales all over North America, Europe and the Middle East. He is the recipient of the Kunstpreis Berlin (2012), the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2014), and the Sobey Art Award (2015). Career Domestic spaces, as negotiated between hospitality and hostility, have been an ongoing area of research in Akhavan's practice. His works are created in direct response to the situation he finds himself working in, whether that might be a specific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Mayer
Marc Daniel Mayer (born 1956) is a Canadian arts manager and curator. He was formerly the strategic adviser at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto. Early life Mayer was born and raised in a Franco-Ontarian"Sudbury native tapped for top post at National Gallery" , '''', November 21, 2008. family in Sudbury, Ontario. Fully bilingual, he is also proficient in German and Italian. His mother, Madeleine, worked as a legal secretary and his father, Gilbert, worked in advertising sales for local television and radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Mackenzie
Landon Mackenzie (born November 29, 1954) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is nationally known for her large-format paintings and her contribution as a professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (she is now Professor Emeritus). Early life and education Mackenzie was born was in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Toronto, Ontario. She has credited the mentorship of the Painter's 11's Harold Town, a friend of her parents and neighbour of her grandmother as being one of her inspirations around her decision to pursue a career as an artist, she has said "I went into Harold's studio and I just thought 'I want this'". She earned a Bachelor's Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design in 1976 where she studied printmaking with a focus on etching and earned a Master's of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 1979 where she studied with Guido Molinari and Irene F. Whittome. Mackenzie studied printmaking at both NSCAD an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Ash Poitras
Jane Ash Poitras LL. D. D.Litt (born 1951) is a Cree painter and printmaker from Canada. Her work uses the idioms of mainstream art to express the experience of Aboriginal people in Canada. Life Jane Ash Poitras was born in Fort Chipewyan Alberta. Her mother died of tuberculosis when Poitras was six and she was adopted by an elderly German woman. She grew up in Edmonton, Alberta in a Catholic household. Before turning to a career in the arts, she obtained a B.Sc. in microbiology at the University of Alberta. She later obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from the University of Alberta and a Master's from Columbia University. Work Poitras uses a vocabulary of layered images, readymades and text to explore the historical and personal experience of an aboriginal person in Canadian society. This approach to creating images was developed out of Dada by the American Abstract Expressionists and their associates; Mark Rothko, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Rauschenberg, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionne Simpson
Dionne Simpson (born 1972) is a Jamaican Canadian textile artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Early life and education Simposon was born in Jamaica in 1972. She emigrated to Canada with her family as an infant. Simpson studied at the Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ... in the late nineties and graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2000. Career Simpson's work features a West African textile technique that involves pulling thread through canvas. Within the spaces the thread pulling creates she adds pigments to further embellish the canvas. In 2004 Simpson was the first national winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. She won the award for her piece ''Urban e_Scape 13''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Dionne 1972 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soheila Esfahani
Soheila Esfahani is an Iranian artist and educator currently working in Canada. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo. She is an Assistant Professor at Western University. She was the receipt of the Ontario Arts Council Project Grant: Mid career artist Esfahani has also received awards from Canada Council for the Arts, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. Notably, she was nominated for the Jameel Prize at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, UK in 2015. Artistic career Esfahani has exhibited numerous shows in Canada and internationally, including: * Been T(here) at Red Head Gallery in Toronto, in 2022, ''Pattern (dis)Placement'', * Redeemer University College Gallery, 2019 in Ancaster, ON, * Interstice, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2019 * In-Between, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON. 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Phillips (artist)
Brad Phillips (born 1974 in Toronto, Canada) is a contemporary Canadian artist and writer. He is best known for his work around subjects like mental illness, suicide, fakery, addiction and pop culture. His first book of short stories, ''Essays and Fictions'', was published in 2019. His first novel,'' You Don't Have to Die'' will be published by Tyrant Books in 2021. Life and education Phillips grew up in the Toronto suburbs of Pickering and Scarborough. He resided in Vancouver between 2002 and 2013 and currently lives in Miami Beach, Florida. He is married to the artist and poet Cristine Brache. Artwork Aesthetically, Phillips is noted for his photorealist style and often references his own photographs to compose his paintings. He is known for his dark and often sinister imagery as well as text-based works, many of which include literary references. He often employs satire, autobiography, and black humor in his paintings. Phillips tends not to contextualize his work or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
