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Jessica Eaton meets with Chris Hampton, an article published by the National Gallery of Canada

Posted on by Bradley Ertaskiran

Read the article “Mixing Light: The Abstract Photography of Jessica Eaton” written by Chris Hampton for the National Gallery of Canada’s website.

The Montreal-based artist is perhaps best known for her ongoing photo series Cubes for Albers and LeWitt, which spans more than a decade (the works’ titles, cfaal, are an acronym of the series name). Coloured in rich jewel tones, Eaton’s nested, knotted forms behave in ways 3D objects ought not to. Part of the joy in experiencing her work, indeed, is puzzling out just what you are looking at and how it came to be. Viewers might compare it to the geometric abstraction of Josef Albers and Sol LeWitt, the two artists the series salutes, or maybe the paintings of Frank Stella or 1960s Op Art. Eaton’s polychrome enigmas, however, are made purely photographically – the effects are produced entirely in-camera and through masking, filters and multiple exposures.

Chris Hampton

The National Gallery of Canada holds in its collection three works from this series: cfaal 306, cfaal 340 and cfaal 346.

To read the article on the NGC’s website, please click here.

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The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal acquires a work by Luce Meunier.

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Bradley Ertaskiran is thrilled to announce that the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal has recently acquired the work Eau courante #4 (2018) by Luce Meunier.

The work is presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in an exhibition titled Des horizons d’attente, an exhibition that highlights the practices of twenty-one artists whose works, recently acquired by the Musée. They speak of political, feminist, social, aesthetic, material, conceptual, spiritual, ecological, poetic, linguistic and identity-related concerns specific to our time.

To consult the museum’s website, please click here.

To consult the artist’s profile, please click here.

Janet Werner in Border Crossings

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In Border Crossings (Vol. 39, Issue 153), Ana Osterweil signs an article on Janet Werner’s retrospective exhibition presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from October 31, 2019 until January 5, 2020.

Showcasing her relentless anatomization of female subjectivity, this survey of the last decade sampled the painter’s consistent exploration of carnivalesque parody and female masquerade before culminating in a haunting suite of still lifes. Organized with a canny eye for visual and thematic correspondence by curator François LeTourneux, the retrospective demonstrated the keen intelligence that Werner brings to portraits of women negotiating the perils of exposure.

Ara Osterweil

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Joseph Tisiga – 2020 Sobey Art Award

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Bradley Ertaskiran is happy to announce that Joseph Tisiga is a recipient of the 2020 Sobey Art Award.

Sobey Art Award – About

Presented annually, the Sobey Art Award celebrates some of our country’s most exciting young artists and provides them with significant financial support.

Since it was created in 2001, the Sobey Art Award has had an undeniable impact on the careers of young Canadian contemporary artists. Within little more than a decade, the award and its attendant publicity have also boosted awareness of contemporary art in Canada and further afield.

Conventionally, each year a panel of curatorial advisors consisting of a noted gallery representative in each of five different regions — the West Coast and the Yukon, the Prairies and the North, Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces — and an international juror, develops a longlist of 25 Canadian artists (five from each region). The panel then meets and chooses its shortlist, with one finalist from each region.

In 2020, these 25 exceptional Canadian artists will be awarded $25,000 (CAD) each. The National Gallery of Canada and the Sobey Art Foundation’s commitment is to return to a juried annual award as soon as public health guidelines enable us to do so, but for this year the shortlist artists exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, the winners’ announcement gala, and the international residencies program have been suspended.

National Gallery of Canada

For more information, please consult the National Gallery of Canada’s website by clicking here.

The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal acquires a work by Marie-Michelle Deschamps

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Bradley Ertaskiran is thrilled to announce that the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal has recently acquired the work Occasional work (2019) by Marie-Michelle Deschamps.

The work is presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in an exhibition titled Des horizons d’attente, an exhibition that highlights the practices of twenty-one artists whose works, recently acquired by the Musée. They speak of political, feminist, social, aesthetic, material, conceptual, spiritual, ecological, poetic, linguistic and identity-related concerns specific to our time.

To consult the museum’s website, please click here.

To consult the artist’s profile, please click here.

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