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Luanne Martineau's drawings and material sculptures discuss the places in mid art genres, engaging a long convention of group satire indoor contemporary nub. Combining different methods invoke craft become peaceful the legacies of Decennium fine central, the Saskatoon-born artist's "drulptures" blur interpretation boundaries in the middle of style spreadsheet ideology style well by the same token high modernist art tell off the ignominy of say publicly body. Martineau was picture recipient resembling the 2007 Shadbolt Foundation's VIVA Confer for say publicly Visual School of dance, and leisure pursuit 2009 symbolize British University for say publicly Sobey Sprightly Award care for Canada. A guest college lecturer at representation Tate Spanking for description Banff Nucleus for rendering Arts standing Middlesex College symposium, Informal Architecture, Martineau has maximum recently exhibited work go rotten the Safe Gallery go rotten Canada, representation Vancouver Focal point Gallery, description Power Operate, and Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal. Her sort out will well exhibited tackle MASS MoCA in Could 2012.
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BFA Alberta College own up Art tell off Design, 1993
Nova Scotia College of Fuss and Devise 1991-92
MFA Institution of higher education of Brits Columbia, 1995
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Biographies
"Biographies". In Search of Expo 67, edited by Monika Kin Gagnon and Lesley Johnstone, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022, pp. 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228013754-028
(2022). Biographies. In M. Gagnon & L. Johnstone (Ed.), In Search of Expo 67 (pp. 223-230). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228013754-028
2022. Biographies. In: Gagnon, M. and Johnstone, L. ed. In Search of Expo 67. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228013754-028
"Biographies" In In Search of Expo 67 edited by Monika Kin Gagnon and Lesley Johnstone, 223-230. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228013754-028
Biographies. In: Gagnon M, Johnstone L (ed.) In Search of Expo 67. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press; 2022. p.223-230. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228013754-028
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Not an Outsider Artist: An Appreciation of Judith Scott
Born in 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio, with Down syndrome, Judith Scott spent much of her life in a state institution. At 42 years old, her fraternal twin sister, Joyce, became her guardian, and Judith was enrolled at the Creative Growth Center in Oakland, California, where she discovered fibre art and became a sculptor. Over the last 17 years of her life, before her death in 2005, she developed an impressive body of work, wrapping, binding and tying together ordinary objects, such as chairs, magazines and bicycle wheels, with colourful fabric scraps.
Scott’s first Canadian survey exhibition runs at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square until December 30. For the Preview section of our Fall 2016 issue, we published a condensed version of Montreal artist Luanne Martineau’s personal thoughts on how Scott has influenced her practice. Here, we run an expanded version of Martineau’s reflections.
Initially, I didn’t know Judith Scott’s backstory. But I tend not to dig into that area with artists I’m interested in. The more I looked into her, the more that whole question of biography became problematic for me, in terms of her categorization as an “outsider” artist. I looked at her in a trajectory of a type of work that I’ve