Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
I can see how some people might hate Daniel Libeskind’s crystal but I really love it. It looks like an alien spaceship crashed into the ROM.
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Aboriginal Artists Materials and Supplies Assistance, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto
Recommenders set their own deadlinesThe Aboriginal Artists Materials and Supplies Assistance program is for individuals. This program provides grants of $500 to Aboriginal artists working in the visual arts,…
Peter Harris
Dundas Garden, 2012
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“Empty parking lots, highways, and gas stations are all worthy subjects in my eyes as I continue to study the modern North American landscape. My curiosity about the landscape that surrounds me in my day to day life evolved from a time when I was painting more nature-based landscapes. I found myself wanting to paint something more personal and less idealized than the romanticized view of Canada as a nature preserve, rugged and untouched. Instead, I felt the need to create art from the places that I visited on a daily basis, to try and discover the beauty in the most mundane urban developments, and to coax interesting paintings from these banal subjects. It was no longer about searching out a beautiful subject to make a beautiful painting; it became about the ability of light to transform a scene and create a painting that would get people thinking anew about their surroundings.”
(Source: peterharris.ca)
Christiane Pflug
The Squirrel, 1968
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“Drawing and painting were what I mostly did after my early years of childhood. I grew up in a world of adults. I had to be quiet, in a large house, and this restricted most other activities. With books, paper and crayon one could always create one’s own world, which also defied intrusion by any unwanted people.”
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Orest Tataryn, Two Similar Flowers, 2012
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From Tataryn’s website
“As a light sculptor he is interested in transformation - how light can transform space, create optical illusions, project afterimages, and alter perception. With light there is always a second factor and that is colour. Colour is very important both for it’s emotional resonance and for it’s dissonance - it sparks the curiosity. The relationships between light, colour, and shadow are the constant and conscious challenges and inspiration in the work.”
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Harold Town, Musclewoman, 1983
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Town is perhaps best known as a member of the Painters Eleven, Toronto’s famous group of abstract painters, but he continued to work in a variety of styles long after the group disbanded in 1960.
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Jack Bush, The Jugglers, 1949
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This work by Bush is a bit more representational than his usual repertoire of colour-field paintings.
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http://ogimaamikana.tumblr.com/
A very cool project where street signs in Toronto are converted to Anishnabemowin as an act of decolonization.
