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About the exhibitions
Their horizon was mountain, their distance reveals
A tangle of land and flesh spill over the edge of Derek Liddington’s canvases to consume the walls of the Carnegie Room. Their horizon was mountain, their distance reveals features the artist’s most recent explorations in painting that draw on his interest in embodiment, perceptual transformation, allegory and the residue of art historical images. Lobbed heads, fragmented hands and broken horizons move across the space of the gallery and the paintings themselves. Their horizon was mountain, their distance reveals is an exhibition that asks us to move slowly and look closely at what lies beneath surfaces. Curated by Katie Lawson.
Structural Integrity
Structural Integrity gathers together artworks that contextualize the built form through its social textures. Assemblages by Christine Howard Sandoval, Erdem Taşdelen and Caroline Monnet encourage multiple inquiries and call into question the dominant value proposition assigned to specific private and public spaces, while resisting or referencing architecture’s slippage into colonial logics and pursuits. Shared between these layered and complex works is an architecture that moves beyond spatial reasoning towards deeper considerations for the narratives that support multi-vocal understandings of space and place. Curated by Noa Bronstein. Co-produced by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin and the MacLaren Art Centre.
Generously sponsored by Salter Pilon Architecture
Jon Sasaki: Homage
Homage gathers a suite of Sasaki’s recent photographs depicting bacterial cultures grown from swabs of artist tools once used by the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, historical artifacts long held in the McMichael’s collection. These large-scale works reveal enlarged details of those cultures, reflecting the artist’s wry obsession with Canada’s canonical painters and his revisiting of the tradition-bound genre of landscape painting through the lens of contemporary photography. Sasaki’s works will be on view alongside the historical artists’ tools. A short video documenting the process of swabbing these archival items, under the direction of McMichael conservator Alison Douglas, will also be presented.
This exhibition was organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Exhibition Sponsors
Richard and Donna Ivey
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About the Artwork
Grace Note, by Lyn Carter & Carl Taçon, 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.
