32 research outputs found
Beyond Electronics
Amundson traces the histories of electronic technologies, video, and electronic art, examining the shift from art about the technology itself to work that uses it as an expressive tool or addresses its social dimension. Lists exhibitions related to art and technology. Statements by 11 artists. Biographical notes. 14 bibl. ref
Mary Scott : Recent Work
Illustrating a shift in Scott's concerns, Tenhaaf discusses the artist's paintings in relation to the body and the subjective reading of the viewer. Biographical notes. 13 bibl. ref
Nameless, Named : Paintings and Works on Paper by Sheila Butler
Tenhaaf analyzes Butler's work from a feminist standpoint. Broaching issues in contemporary biology, psychoanalysis and the history of painting, the author demonstrates how the artist has developed a signifying figurative strategy. Biographical notes. 13 bibl. ref
Seeing Things : The Paintings of Gary Evans
Catalogue to accompany a touring exhibition of Evans’ paintings created between 1995-2000. N. Tenhaaf’s brief text offers a semiotic reading of the artist’s Field Work series of paintings. Reid’s curatorial essay draws attention to affinities between Evans’ work and that of Canadian landscape painters Emily Carr and David Milne. Reid also considers how the artist’s perceptual experience of the outside world relates to Romanticism. Includes a transcribed conversation between Evans and Klunder. Texts in French and English. List of works; bio-bibliography 2 p