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Art NOW Series: David MacWilliam and Doug Kirton
When/Why Artists Curate and A Student Amidst Robin Peck
12 pm, February 25, 2019
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome!
David MacWilliam is an artist, educator and independent curator who lives in Vancouver, Canada. He has exhibited his paintings in numerous solo and group exhibitions over the past forty years in cities such as Paris, Barcelona, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg. He received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MA in Visual Arts from University of the Arts London. In 2012 he published Unfolding, with essays by Dr. Jeanne Randolph and Robert Lindsey. In 2017, he co-curated Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting with Senior Curator Bruce Grenville for the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2018 he curated Robin Peck: Crania at Or Gallery, Vancouver, June 15 – July 28, 2018 and School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Sept 4 –October 26, 2018. Most recently he co-curated Garry Neill Kennedy’s Remembering Names with Jonathan Middleton at CSA Space, October 7 – November 3, 2018. MacWilliam is a Professor Emeritus in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design where he taught from 1988 to 2017.
Doug Kirton received his BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1978 and his MFA from the University of Guelph in 1994. Kirton’s work has been shown extensively across Canada, and he has participated in two-person and group exhibitions in the United States, Switzerland and China. His work is represented in numerous important public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum London, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Shanghai Art Museum. In 2000, Kirton’s work was the subject of a retrospective mid-career exhibition jointly organized by the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and Museum London. Entitled Times of Uncertainty: Doug Kirton Paintings 1983 – 1999, the exhibition featured an accompanying catalogue with an essay written by the artist Will Gorlitz.
Kirton’s work has been generously acknowledged by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Most recently, in 2010 he was awarded a grant in the Established artist category from the Ontario Arts Council. Kirton’s most recent work has been exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Michael Gibson Gallery (London, Ontario) in March, 2016.
Kirton is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. In 2010 he was honoured with the UW Distinguished Teacher Award and the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) Award for Excellence in Teaching.
In 2002 Kirton was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA). In 2004, he was awarded the Kitchener|Waterloo Arts Award in the category of Visual Arts, and in 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Kirton is represented by the Michael Gibson Gallery (London, Ontario), and Nouveau Gallery (Regina, Saskatchewan).
Image: Robin Peck, Sculpture (Crania # 102), Materials from the center: Basalt, pottery plaster and brass, polycarbonate, black paint, plaster, burlap and Hydrocal, Hydrocal, shellac, carnuba wax. 11 x 16 x 10 in. Weight 29 lb, 2017. Photo credit: Rachel Topham Photography
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
Art NOW wishes to thank the Southern Alberta Art Gallery for their collaboration in making this presentation possible.
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