artist Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/artist/ Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:06:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-mma_favicon_24bit_alt-32x32.png artist Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/artist/ 32 32 Movers and Makers: Artist Talks https://museum.mcmaster.ca/movers-and-makers-artist-talks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=movers-and-makers-artist-talks Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:37:39 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=25498 The post Movers and Makers: Artist Talks appeared first on McMaster Museum of Art.

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]]> Deanna Bowen receives a $25K Governor General’s art award https://museum.mcmaster.ca/deanna-bowen-receives-a-25k-governor-generals-art-award/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deanna-bowen-receives-a-25k-governor-generals-art-award Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:49:02 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=11318 Critically-acclaimed artist Deanna Bowen, whose solo show A Harlem Nocturne is currently on view at the McMaster Museum of Art, is among eight winners to receive the 2020 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

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]]> Artist Talk / In Conversation: Deanna Bowen and Professor Selina Mudavanhu https://museum.mcmaster.ca/artist-talk-in-conversation-deanna-bowen-and-professor-selina-mudavanhu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=artist-talk-in-conversation-deanna-bowen-and-professor-selina-mudavanhu Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:02:12 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=11304 Join us for a public conversation between artist Deanna Bowen and Professor Selina Mudavanhu from McMaster's Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia.

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]]> Video: Michael Allgoewer’s Talk https://museum.mcmaster.ca/allgoewer-talk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=allgoewer-talk Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:04:04 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10444 Thank you to all who joined us on February 7, 2019 for Hamilton artist Michael Allgoewer’s talk. A full house!

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]]> Thank you to all who joined us on February 7, 2019 for Hamilton artist Michael Allgoewer’s talk. A full house! Michael spoke about the body of work he produced for his exhibition 1514 and the enigmatic Albrecht Dürer engraving, Melencolia I, that inspired it all. A lively Q&A followed his talk.

For those who missed it, or would like to review it, we recorded the formal portion of his presentation. Watch it now:

Michael Allgoewer’s exhibition 1514  includes nine recent sculptural and mixed media works. It is on view at the McMaster Museum of Art until March 16, 2019.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Michael Allgoewer is a Hamilton-based artist. He was born in Montreal in 1954 and studied briefly at the Ontario College of Art in the mid 1980s. He has shown extensively in solo and group exhibitions, in both public and private galleries. His work ranges from installation, emphasizing a connection with history and myth, often incorporating re-contextualized found material; to paintings which are abstract and rigorous in concept and execution.

Michael Allgoewer is represented by b contemporary gallery in Hamilton, Ontario.

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]]> Talk by Artist Angela Grossmann and Curator Lynn Ruscheinsky https://museum.mcmaster.ca/grossmann-talk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grossmann-talk Tue, 15 Jan 2019 20:33:37 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10336 Join artist Angela Grossmann and curator Dr. Lynn Ruscheinsky in conversation as they walk through Troublemakers, Grossmann's solo exhibition of 68 mixed media portraits.

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]]> Artist Talk by Ernest Daetwyler – Oct 18 at 12:30 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/daetwyler-talk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daetwyler-talk Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:34:10 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10105 Find out more about the Swiss-Canadian artist and his impressive practice, including a discussion about his new installation at McMaster, The Boat Project/everythingwillbefine.

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]]> Ursula Johnson: Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You Remember) https://museum.mcmaster.ca/ursula-johnson-mikwitetmn-do-you-remember/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ursula-johnson-mikwitetmn-do-you-remember Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:54:37 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10047 McMaster Museum of Art presents Ursula Johnson: Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You Remember).

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]]> Artist & Curator’s Talk: Susan Schelle and Ana Barajas, March 7 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/schelletalk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=schelletalk Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:00:51 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9338 Presented as a complement to the exhibition Susan Schelle: Selected Works on view in the Museum’s entrance level Sherman Gallery until March 24, 2018

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Artist & Curator’s Talk

by Susan Schelle, Artist, and Ana Barajas, Curator
McMaster Museum of Art
Wednesday, March 7, 12:30 – 1:20 pm

Presented as a complement to the exhibition Susan Schelle: Selected Works on view in the Museum’s entrance level Sherman Gallery until March 24, 2018

Admission is Free and all are welcome.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Susan Schelle was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and currently lives and works in Toronto. She was an Associate Professor Emeritus in Visual Studies, J.H. Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto. She has completed a number of public art commissions, notably salmon run at The Rogers Centre Toronto, passage at York University Toronto, and laws of nature at Court House Square Park, Toronto. She has shown both nationally and internationally including The Cenci Gallery, Rome, Italy and The Freedman Gallery Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania. Her work resides in the collections of Air Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, McMaster Museum of Art, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Vancouver Art Gallery, and The National Gallery of Canada. In addition to her own work, Schelle has collaborated with Mark Gomes on several public commissions, most recently jetstream at Terminal One, Pearson International Airport, Toronto.

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Ana Barajas holds a BFA from OCAD University in Sculpture/Installation. She received a MVA, Curatorial and a MA, Modern Art History from the University of Toronto. As the Director of YYZ Artists’ Outlet, a non-profit artist-run centre, Barajas has managed more than one-hundred exhibitions to date. Independent curatorial projects include It takes everyone to know no one in 2011 at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Museum, University of Toronto, The 19th Holeat Cuchifritos Gallery+Project Space, NY in 2014 and the group exhibition Disappearing Act at the Thames Art Gallery, Chatham-Kent in 2017.

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]]> New Acquisitions by 17th century artist Elisabetta Sirani https://museum.mcmaster.ca/sirani/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sirani Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:24:33 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9314 The McMaster Museum of Art has acquired two etchings by 17th century Italian artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638 – 1665).

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]]> Susan Schelle Exhibition Opens January 2018 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/susan-schelle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=susan-schelle Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:39:54 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9139 This exhibition, and its upcoming companion at Gallery Stratford, serves as a resting perch from which to survey a working life embedded in visual thinking. The continuity of ideas point to an open-ended search for the location of the self within an environment that is at times ominous.

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