Join Curator of Collections, Sonya Jones, to learn about the life and art of artist Hortense Gordon. Hortense Gordon was an important artist linked to the beginnings of abstract painting in Canada and a founding member of Painters Eleven, Ontario’s first abstract painting group (1953-1960). Jones will discuss Gordon’s compulsive drive towards what was new in art and her journey towards abstraction. This lecture compliments the exhibition at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Hortense Gordon: Towards the New, on view September 6, 2025 – March 1, 2026.
Free and Open to the Public. Refreshments served.
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