Edmonton Journal: “‘My brother and I were talking one day and decided that it would be interesting to bring together social critics like scientists, bioethicists, health-law specialists, philosophers and artists and have them look at the issues around science and art,’ says Sean Caulfield. He approached AGA senior curator Catherine Crowston and asked her if she would be willing to curate such a show. She brought 10 artists together with a group of social critics for a workshop at the Banff Centre of the Arts in August 2007. The result was a wild explosion of discipline-blurring conversation about the complex relationship that exists between art and science.”
Category Archives: Visual Arts
Bureau de Change Will Do You Good
Calgary Herald: “The Banff Centre’s current exhibition delved into its own archives for inspiration. The result was more than even the curators could have expected.”
Mendel Art Gallery names Vince Varga new executive director
Saskatoon Star Phoenix: “Varga was most recently the executive artistic director of visual arts at the Banff Centre.”
Kitty Scott named to panel for Canadian Painting Competition
CNW Group: “RBC names distinguished panel for tenth annual Canadian Painting Competition. Nine curators, artists, and gallery directors from across Canada will award a total of $145,000 to winners…” The competition jury panel includes “Kitty Scott, Director, Walter Phillips Gallery” [and director of Visual Arts at The Banff Centre].
Banff’s hills are alive [in particular, Tunnel Mountain]
Vue Weekly: Amy Fung “whisked away last weekend to take in a tumultuous three days of open studios, informal and lively discussions, and the opening/panel discussion of Anthem at the Banff Arts Centre.”
Amy Fung also discusses the exhibition on her blog.
Visual arts alumnus from the ’50s has solo exhibit in Ottawa
Ottawa Citizen: Duncan de Kergommereaux, 80, has his first solo exhibition in Ottawa in 20 years. “De Kergommereaux was born in northern British Columbia and started his painting career in 1950. In 1951 he attended the Banff School of Fine Arts.”
[This article appears to have his name spelled wrong. According to several references on the web (1 2 3), his name is de Kergommeaux.]
WPG posts World Upside Down to E-Flux
E-Flux: “When the contemporary artists in this exhibition take up inversion they are using it self-consciously as a form of social critique. They aim at the dichotomies of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality that police many of our social hierarchies.”
Canadian artist heads to Darwin, Australia, for inspiration
Charles Darwin University: “Canadian artist Lyndal Osborne is spending a week in Darwin researching her latest project, which will draw on the differing environments between Australia and Canada.… Travelling with her to Australia is fellow installation artist Jen Rae, whose most recent works are video and performance installations that explore themes of displacement, grief, memory and sensory experience. Ms Rae works from the studios of the Banff Arts Centre, where international artists often gather for collaborative sessions.”
Aboriginal media artist Mike MacDonald dies at 65
CBC Arts: MacDonald created the butterfly garden at Glyde Hall.
Artist’s breast milk bar evokes memories of masturbating Mexican
Canada dot com: The Tory government is laying low on criticisms of a Toronto performance artist’s plans to offer the public an opportunity to sample human breast milk, although when they were not in power they frequently fumed over what they thought was inappropriate. “B.C. MP Jim Abbott fumed in 2001 over Mexican artist Israel Mora’s ejaculate, on display in a cooler at the Banff Centre. Today, Abbott is parliamentary secretary to Heritage Minister Bev Oda and a more reticent art critic.” [Note: the ejaculate was not actually on display, it was purported to be within a closed refrigerator. See this page.]