Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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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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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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,…
Read MoreThursday, June 4, 2015
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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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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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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