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Oct 11 1991 to Oct 26 1991
Attention
Painting that uses only a few colours, simple forms, repetitive structures, uncomplicated premises –painting such as Adrian Gollner’s work –is painting of reduced means. With a decrease in variety of visual information, the...
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Sep 20 1991 to Oct 5 1991
agency noun. 1. Active operation; action; power.
2. A mode of action; means; instrumentality; action personified.
Imagine the free agency of a contemporary painter in Canada.
Ensconced in his studio, John Armstrong speculates on modern...
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Aug 27 1991 to Sep 15 1991
The necessity of work
In the autumn of 1990 in a group show at Gallery 101, Germaine Koh exhibited some compelling abstract paintings from a series called ESTABLISHING. Concerned with investigating the relation of the processes of drawing...
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Aug 9 1991 to Aug 25 1991
Reginald Hamilton’s painting faces into the past, engaging with history, art history, and memory. Equally assertively it indexes present experience as painting of modern life. As paradoxical as this may seem, it is because of this...
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Jul 19 1991 to Aug 4 1991
PAINTINGS: DIMITAR NESHEV AND SVETOSLAV TZEKOV
Painting is political
The communist-direct art education which Dimitar Neshev and Svetoslav (Jack) Tzekov received in Bulgaria taught them that painting is always political. Neshev and Tzekov...
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Jun 28 1991 to Jul 14 1991
"My father immigrated to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland. He was fifteen years old when they settled in northern Alberta in a place called Clandonald. One of my earliest memories was of him coming home with an armful of birch saplings. They...
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May 2 1991 to Jun 9 1991
SPIRITED is an exhibition in which women continue their struggle to represent themselves. Traditionally excluded form the official histories of art and only recently considered worth half the time of museum and gallery exhibition...
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Apr 6 1991 to Apr 28 1991
Montreal artist Lorraine Simms will exhibit recent oil paintings as and works on paper depicting artificial hearts and other medical protheses-devices intended for implanting into the human body- in an investigation into the notion of the...
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Mar 7 1991 to Mar 28 1991
JAYCE SALLOUM: STUPID PLEASURES
The artifacts and residue within each photograph/object are seen as a "site" in the formation of a cultural understanding/misunderstanding. Various areas of research and production located here focus on...
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Jan 5 1991 to Jan 27 1991
KAREN HOEBERG: FOR THE REST FOR THE...
"In the summer of my seventh year,
a crow with a broken wing came to me.
His wing healed. And yet he would not leave me...
...leaves began to fall.. I tried to make him go.
He bit my toe. I knew...
