JUST MY IMAGINATION | STEPHEN ANDREWS, SHEILA BUTLER, CATHY DALEY, RAPHAËLLE DE GROOT, LUCIE CHAN, MICHELLE GAY, ED PIEN, LUANNE MARTINEAU, JASON MCLEAN, ALISON NORLEN, JOHN SCOTT, DAVID TOMAS, ANNA TORMA, CANDICE TARNOWSKI
01.20.2007 | 03.04.2007
Just My Imagination is a major exhibition of contemporary Canadian drawing. It brings together 14 artists from coast to coast whose work is representative of a dynamic range of approaches characteristic of the most robust drawing today.
Stephen Andrews was born in 1956 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He has exhibited his work in Canada, the U.S., Brazil, Scotland, France, Italy and Japan. He is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, as well as many private collections. His work deals with memory, identity, surveillance and their representations in various media.
Sheila Butler is a visual artist, residing in Toronto, Ontario. From 1973 to 1989 she taught at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg, moving to the University of Western Ontario until retirement from teaching in 2004. Sheila Butler’s recent exhibitions include Girls and Guns, work by a women's collective, Budapest, Hungary, 2004, touring to Tirana, Albania and Novi Sad, Serbia; work in progress includes Art and Cold Cash Collective, an exhibition created by three southern Canadian artists and two Inuit artists, touring to Arctic communities and to southern Canada, 2004-06.
Cathy Daley has exhibited across Canada and internationally and her drawings are in numerous private, corporate, and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Reviews of her work have been published in Art in America, Border Crossings, Canadian Art magazine and many other publications. She is an Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Cathy Daley is represented by Robert Birch Gallery in Toronto and Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art in Calgary.
Exhibiting actively since 1996 in Canada and abroad, Montreal-based Raphaëlle de Groot has a BA in visual arts (University of Quebec in Montreal and Purchase College S.U.N.Y, New York, 1997). Her recent exhibition projects include a solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art Le Quartier in Quimper. France (2004), and We come in peace... History of the Americas (at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal) (2003). From 2003 to 2004, in conjunction with the Pistoletto Foundation, she collaborated with workers of a textile factory in Biella, Italy, developing social exchange initiatives and a related exhibition.
Lucie Chan lives and teaches Halifax, Nova Scotia. She completed two residencies last year at the Banff Center For the Arts and at the Museum London in 2004. She has a solo exhibition scheduled at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2006/2007.
Michelle Gay studied art and art history at University of Toronto and then received her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her practice investigates the junctures between bodies and technologies, integrating a range of media including drawing and the digital-–building and programming computers to make interactive artworks. She collaborates with her sibling, Colin Gay (a particle physicist at Yale), on software/hardware art projects. Interested in the possibilities of touch and poetics within new media works, they develop artworks designed to play with technologies in non-useful ways. In 2006 they will present a large-scale interactive 'stretchpoem' for Articule's series on Immersion.
Ed Pien has exhibited nationally and internationally including the Drawing Centre, New York; La Biennale de Montreal; W139, Amsterdam; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Middlesbrough Art Gallery, the UK; The School of Esmeralda, Mexico City; and The Goethe Institute, Berlin. Pein is represented by the Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto and Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal.
Luanne Martineau's work as an artist involves an imaginary play of historical and popular culture genres. She recieved an MFA [1995] from the University of British Columbia, graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design [1993] and studied intermedia at NSCAD. Solo and group exhibtions include Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary [2005], Three Walls, Chicago, Illonois, [2004], The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver [2003], The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Scotland [2002], and the Alberta Biennale, Edmonton Art Gallery [2002]. Martineau teaches critical theory and museum studies at the University of Victoria. She is represented by Trepanier Baer, Calgary.
Jason McLean was born in 1971. He attended H.B. Beal Art High School in London, Ontario and graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C. in 1997. His practice has included drawing, sculpture, installation, sound performance and mail art and collaborative projects. He has contributed to several magazines as an illustrator, including Adbusters, Made magazine and Bananafish. McLean has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and is represented in Vancouver by Tracey Lawrence Gallery, in Los Angeles by Richard Heller Gallery, and on-line by Paul Butler’s Other Gallery.
Alison Norlen grew up in Kenora, Ontario and moved to Winnipeg at seventeen and became a barber. Gradually attending classes at the University of Manitoba School she received a BFA, and went on to complete a MFA from Yale University. Returning to Winnipeg she taught at the University of Manitoba for ten years before moving to Saskatoon, where she continues her artistic practice and teaches at the University of Saskatchewan. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is in public and private collections in Canada and the United States.
Born in Windsor, Ontario in 1950, John Scott is best known for his Trans-Am Apocalypse, a blackened body of a Pontiac Trans-Am with the Book of Revelations from the New Testament inscribed by hand into its surface. This work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Scott's work has been widely presented in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Power Plant, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2002 Scott was recipient of the first Governor General’s Award for Visual Art in Canada. He is represented by Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto.
David Tomas is an artist and writer whose media and photographic works explore the cultures and transcultures of imaging systems. He has exhibited in Canada, the United States and Europe and has held visiting research and fellowship positions at the California Institute of the Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Tomas teaches in the Ecole des arts visuels et médiatiques at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Anna Torma was born in 1952 in Tarnaors, Hungary. She lives and works in Baie Verte, New Brunswick. Her exhibitions include Through the Eye of the Needle, Owens Art Gallery,Sackville, NB (2004), Anna Torma: Embroideries 2001-2002, Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (2002), and Notes and Visions, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI (1996). Her recent grants and fellowships include the UNESCO Aschberg Foundation's Bursary (2005), Canada Council Visual Arts Grant, Banff Leighton Studios Residency (2004), and the Chalmers Fellowship (2002).
Candice Tarnowski has exhibited and participated in residencies across Canada, the Southern United States and the Netherlands. Her work was included in Fibreworks: A Biennial of Contemporary Canadian Fibre Art, Puppets on Screen at the Glenbow Museum and The Alberta Biennial 2000. She currently lives in Montréal where she is working on an MFA in Fibres at Concordia University.
