Eleanor Bond, Painting the Dymaxion House (Fuller), 2001, oil on wood panel. Purchase, Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund, 2003 (46-030). Photo credit: Bernard Clark
Exhibitions
Contemporary Landscape Painting: see you tomorrow
Première Series
Samuel J. Zacks Gallery
6 January - 8 April 2007
Fantasy, suburban quietude and ruin mingled in this selection of contemporary landscape painting, signalling a departure from the "national" school of Canadian painting to which Brent Roe wryly alludes in his rocks and pines /several pleasing shades of blue... Intimations of environmental degradation and failed utopianism infused these heavily mediated renditions of the landscape, producing an edgy stew of wonder and dismay that once again declared the evocative capacity of painting and the productive alliance of anxiety and beauty.
The exhibition featured works by Eleanor Bond, Jay Isaac, Douglas Kirton, Nick Ostoff and Brent Roe, as part of our Première series of recent acquisitions. On 1 February at 7 pm, Eleanor Bond presented a public lecture in conjunction with the Koerner Foundation Visiting Artist Program of the Department of Art.
Jan Allen