New Art Now: Recent Acquisitions
Sally Frater
Like so many other cultural organizations throughout the world this year, the Art Gallery of Guelph had to temporarily suspend its regular artistic programming. At a time when we could not open our doors to visitors, we were still committed to ensuring that the general public would be able to continue to engage with our installations and collection.
New Art Now: Recent Acquisitions is the physical iteration of two online exhibitions featuring works that the AGG has acquired over the past five years. The pieces shown here span a variety of media that include painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and video. As most institutions only display close to 10 percent of the works within their collections, New Art Now: Recent Acquisitions offers a glimpse of some of the recent contemporary works acquired by the gallery, insight into the scope of the AGG’s collecting activities, as well as a sampling of some of the compelling work that is being produced by Canadian artists.
Image detail: William Eakin, Bottlecap 3321 (Orange Coloured Winnipeg), 2001, 33 × 33 cm. Gift of Leo Kamen, 2016, Art Gallery of Guelph Collection
Artists
Don Bonham
Katherine Boyer
Shary Boyle
William Eakin
Monika Hauck
April Hickox
Mark Igloliorte
Stephen Lack
Laura Millard
Meagan Musseau
Diana Thorneycroft
Catherine Widgery
Nico Williams
Akira Yoshikawa
Robert Youds
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Contemporary Indigenous Artists at AGG
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September 12.2024 / January 5.2025
Some kind of we brings together works that approach t4t sensibilities, emphasizing trans relationality, self-representation, cross-generational inheritance, desire, and love.
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September 12.2024 / January 5.2025
Eternal Transcendent highlights a selection of photographic works by Robert Flack that convey his reverence for the more-than-corporeal and a yearning for healing in light of the AIDS epidemic.
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September 5.2024 / May 4.2025
In Entrelazados, Guatemalan-Mexican-American artist Justin Favela continues his exploration of notions of identity, place, and authenticity through his distinct remixes of popular culture and Latinx experience.
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Paul Nadeau
July 18.2024 / August 25.2024
Paul Nadeau’s paintings explore Canadian eco-tourism and resource extraction that contributes to the settler-colonial view of Canadian wilderness.
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Richard Bedwash
June 13.2024 / August 25.2024
Explore the vivid, symbol-rich images of Anishinaabe artist Richard Bedwash that connects his work, his life, and the cultural landscapes of Guelph.
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May 30.2024 / July 10.2024
The work of Catherine Chan delves into human entanglements with the more-than-human using rocks and other materials of geology to explore the intersection of deep time with more fleeting experiences.
