Tag: permanent collection
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Moving Image: The RMG’s New Permanent Collection Exhibition
This blog post comes from the desk of Senior Curator, Linda Jansma. Each year The Robert McLaughlin Gallery completely revamps the Isabel McLaughlin Gallery, a space that is dedicated to the RMG’s permanent collection. When I first came to the gallery, the norm was to give a slice of art history from a chronological perspective:…
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Curator’s Choice: Moving Image
This blog post comes from the desk of Senior Curator, Linda Jansma. Beyond Measure: Domesticating Distance is an exhibition initiated by emerging curator Ambereen Siddiqui and assisted by a Culturally Diverse Curatorial Project grant through the Ontario Arts Council. Its theme of artists living in the context of the diaspora, segues with one of the…
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Friday, August 7, 2015
Fall On The Move
This fall, we are exploring how artists have conveyed the overlapping themes of memory, migration and movement with two exhibitions: Moving Image and Beyond Measure: Domesticating Distance. In Moving Image, Senior Curator Linda Jansma explores how the theme of movement manifests itself in the RMG’s permanent collection. Selected from our collection of over 4,500 works,…
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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Conversation Pieces by Ramune Luminaire and Judith Mason
Since 2011 Ramune Luminaire and Judith A. Mason have been working on a series of collaborative drawings that explore experiences of relationship through mark-making. Through a series of non-verbal exchanges, each artist takes their turn adding to what is on the paper. In time a composite image emerges; a visual dialogue of call and response. …
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
The Curator’s View: Louis de Niverville visits the RMG
This blog post comes from the desk of Senior Curator, Linda Jansma. To say that I was remiss in not taking a notebook and pencil along is an understatement. The artist Louis de Niverville came to visit the RMG a couple of weeks ago with friends. Jason, our Preparator, and I had taken some time in the…
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Monday, January 21, 2013
The Curator’s View: Care and Conservation of Art
This post is from the desk of Linda Jansma, Senior Curator. The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is a member of the Canadian Museum Association and adheres to their ethical guidelines. Those guidelines include the following paragraph about collections: Museum collections consist of natural or cultural (i.e. manmade) objects and intellectual property directly owned by the museum,…
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