Walter Redinger & David Urban — November 1-22, 2008

Walter Redinger has been an active sculptor for more than 40 years. He is best known for his large organic fibreglass sculptures and fearless drawings. Redinger, born in 1940, began his professional art training at Beal Technical School in London, followed by education from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and then the Miensinger School of Art in Detroit Michigan. He has exhibited internationally in New York, Italy and France and represented Canada at the 1972 Venice Biennale.

David Urban is widely regarded as the leading Canadian painter of his generation. Born in Toronto in 1966, he studied poetry and painting at York University, earning a BFA in 1989. Urban received a master’s degree in English literature and creative writing from the University of Windsor in 1991 (where he studied with Alistair MacLeod) and a second master’s degree in painting from the University of Guelph in 1993. His work is represented in many private and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada. In 2002, Urban curated Painters 15, an exhibition of established Canadian painters which was presented at the Shanghai Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.