Tag: abstract painting
Monday, November 30, 2015
Ray Mead: Living Within
Ray Mead: Living Within came together quickly as a result of a change in the RMG’s programming schedule. Whenever I go through the racks in the vault, Mead’s work begs for my attention so organizing this exhibition was an incredible pleasure. Bringing together over thirty works by Mead that range from the 1940s to 1990…
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
Jock Macdonald: Evolving Form – A perpetual state of evolution
Vol ‘n’ Tell is an ongoing series of blog posts written by RMG Volunteers. Raechel Bonomo is an Oshawa native, art enthusiast and second-year Print Journalism student at Durham College. There are not many rooms in Oshawa with totem poles, fish swimming through space, and rolling Canadian hills up on its walls. Evolving Form at…
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Saturday, January 10, 2015
Curator’s View – Jock Macdonald
This blog post comes from the desk of Senior Curator, Linda Jansma. It has been an exciting journey to be involved in the development of Jock Macdonald: Evolving Form. As the “spiritual home” of Painters Eleven, it was natural for the RMG to be part of this collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery and Art…
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Painters Eleven at Sixty
This post comes from our Senior Curator, Linda Jansma. ‘This exhibition is not a compact to agree, but rather the expression of a long repressed desire on the part of eleven painters to disagree harmoniously in terms visually indigenous to this age.’ While a fall 1953 meeting at Alexandra Luke’s cottage officially launched Painters Eleven…
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