September 21, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 12:30 – 1:20 pm
Free and open to the public
Simon Glass is an artist and educator based in Toronto. In his artistic practice, archival and original photographic imagery is combined with mystical, biblical and liturgical Hebrew. He trained as a photographer and visual artist at the Ontario College of Art and graduated in 1983. He completed an M.A. in Media and Communications at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland in 2005. His work combines photographic imagery, both archival and original, and found objects with biblical, liturgical and mystical Hebrew. It has been exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout Canada and internationally. He also translates biblical Hebrew into English. He has received numerous awards from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Simon Glass is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University and he served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Art for six years.
This event is presented as a complement to Simon Glass’s current exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art which presents two photo-hybrid suites: The Ten Commandments/ Prohibited Weapons, 2005 (from the collection of McMaster Museum of Art) and the Art Gallery of Hamilton (The Thirteen Attributes of God, 2001 from the collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
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