Susan Gold: Decorating the End of the World
Curated by Catherine Elliot Shaw
When: May 16 - June 29, 2013
Opening reception: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 7 P.M.
For the past two decades, Windsor artist Susan Gold has researched and photographed natural history collections to develop imagery for her paintings. Her current investigation explores animal specimens as objects of decoration in relation to architecture. Inspired by Norwegian natural history museum displays, she has layered images of the iconic Isbjørn (ice bear), old master paintings and William Morris wallpapers within architectural spaces to evoke the longstanding relationship of decoration to nature.
Gold has exhibited in Canada, the United States, England, Germany, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. She is a visual arts professor at University of Windsor and a frequent lecturer at international symposia. Her work is represented in public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the King Stephen Museum in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Susan Gold: Decorating the End of the World has been organized by McIntosh Gallery.
For more information, contact Natalie Finkelstein, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, at nfinkel@uwo.ca
Janet Jones: DaDA Delirium
Curated by Stuart Reid
When: May 16 - June 29, 2013
Opening reception: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 7 P.M.
With this series of paintings, Toronto artist Janet Jones probes our fascination with the future. Digitally manipulating black and white photographs of sterile public spaces, Jones creates paintings that appear like frozen screen projections. Focussing on the affects of globalization’s hybrid spaces, Jones collapses the experiential and the technological—the real and the virtual—thus underscoring the ecstatic blur of technology.
Jones has exhibited in Canada, the United States, England, Germany, France and China. She is visual arts professor at York University, where she received her MFA from York University before completing a doctorate at New York University in the area of art theory and criticism.
DaDa Delirium was organized by the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. The exhibition catalogue, co-published by the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, MacLaren Art Centre, Art Gallery of Northumberland and McIntosh Gallery, includes essays by exhibition curator Stuart Reid and Nell Tenhaaf, and an interview with the artist by Georgiana Uhlyarik.
Both Jones and Gold with attend the opening reception on Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 P.M. For more information, contact Natalie Finkelstein, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, at nfinkel@uwo.ca.
