Grace Note is a permanent sculpture created for the entrance of the MacLaren Art Centre. A Grace Note, by definition, is a musical note added as an ornament.
This sculpture is conceived as a gestural line in space. Capturing a flourish of upward movement, this sculpture is visible from outside the MacLaren through the large second floor front window. Upon entering the MacLaren, Grace Note leads the viewer’s eye into the expanse of the building and its galleries with a joyful, orange aerial twist–activating the space with vibrant energy, emotion, and colour.
Grace Note is generously supported by Pratt Homes.
Supported by Pratt Homes
Carl Taçon’s artistic production is focused on large-scale sculptural work in limestone, marble and granite utilizing the processes of hand carving, CNC carving, sandblasting and waterjet cutting, as well as iron, bronze and aluminum casting. He has exhibited in Canada and the United States and his work is owned by numerous private and public collections. Taçon has completed a number of public and private art commissions that include; Ruche for INDX condominium, Toronto (2016), Counterpoise for Edmonton Police Service Southwest Division, Edmonton, Alberta (2012), Passage, a carved marble entrance sculpture for Synagogue Darchei Noam, Toronto (2007) and Shift, as winner of an international public art competition to design, fabricate and install a 136′ exterior sculptural wall for a Toronto condominium building designed by architect Robert Stern (2008).
Taçon is currently working on a commissioned granite sculpture for the Peel Art Gallery, Brampton, Ontario, to be installed Spring 2025.
Lyn Carter is based near Grand Valley, Ontario. Carter completed her undergraduate work in Textile Design at the Ontario College of Art and received a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from York University in Toronto in 1994. Carter has exhibited both nationally and internationally and her work is represented in a number of permanent collections. In 2008 she was invited to create a new work for the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou, China) and in 2016 she was invited to exhibit her work in the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2016, Zhejiang Art Museum (Hangzhou, China). Her solo exhibition Lyn Carter: 11th Line, organized by and exhibited at the Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto ON) in 2015/16, was composed of site-specific sculptures, drawings and video. The exhibition toured to the Peterborough Art Gallery (Peterborough, Ontario) and the Musée d’art de Joliette (Joliette, Québec).
Currently, Carter is creating a sculptural installation composed of six individual animations, to open at Woodstock Art Gallery in February 2025.
