A painter, printmaker, and collage artist, Town (1924–1990) was provocative, prolific, and a technical virtuoso. He co-founded Painters Eleven and contributed to the Canadian Abstract Expressionist movement. Gerta Moray is Professor Emerita at the University of Guelph. Produced by ACI.
This National Film Board short film studies the works of one of Canada’s greatest contemporary etchers – Newfoundland-born David Blackwood.
Johanne Sloan is Professor of Art History at Concordia University. In this ACI video, Sloan introduces us to Canadian artist Joyce Wieland.
Fred Hollingshurst interviews Christopher Pratt
A video depicting the creation of the mural commissioned by the University of Lethbridge to Paterson Ewen.
Photographer Susan Dobson gives us a tour of her May 2018 “Slide Library” exhibition. Watch our 4 minute video interview with Dobson where she describes the background behind the series and her interest in highlighting the history of photography.
She took her first art class as a favour to a friend; seven decades later Dorothy Knowles is regarded as possibly the finest landscape painter in Canada. This video highlights her prolific career with an exhibition in her hometown of Saskatoon at the Remai Modern Gallery.
Art Toronto visited the studio of Montreal-based artist Dil Hildebrand, one of the artists featured in the Art Toronto 2018 SOLO section.
Take a short 2 minute walk-through of Hans Wendt’s November 2017 exhibition “Paint Samples”.
Music: Six gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent by Erik Satie
Life & Work by Andrew Kear. Video produced by ACI
The film looks at the painters known as The Regina Five: Ron Bloore, Ted Godwin, Ken Lochhead, Art McKay, Doug Morton, and their impact on regional and national painting in the early 1960s. Produced and directed by Mark Wihak.