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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May 2.2024 / August 30.2024
What Remains provides windows, peering into and out from an ongoing global humanitarian crisis, assembled into a multimedia and multidisciplinary experience.
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January 18.2024 / April 21.2024
The Unsettlements is a series of projects initiated by JD Pluecker in 2018 that delve into sites of memory, silence, and ancestry, particularly in Houston and across what is now called Texas
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Tim Pitsiulak
January 18.2024 / May 19.2024
Tim Pitsiulak’s work offers profound insight into not just life in the North, but the ever-evolving impacts of colonization, particularly the effects of climate change and environmental exploitation.
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December 23.2023 / April 21.2024
Drawing from the Art Gallery of Guelph’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores the use of abstraction by artists in their depictions of the natural world.
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September 21.2023 / December 30.2023
This group exhibition that explores various rituals related to the everyday and the natural environment through art by those who hold cultural ties to the Caribbean.
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September 14.2023 / December 17.2023
This exhibition of works by Manitoulin Island-based artist Carl Beam probes the interstices of history, politics, science, materiality, and Indigeneity.
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September 14.2023 / December 17.2023
The Third Scenario examines the act of art making through hyphenated conditions and what it means to create while being Asian and living in Canada.
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September 14.2023 / April 21.2024
Seeing the Land, Feeling the Sea presents landscapes by Canadian artist Takao Tanabe from AGG’s permanent collection.
