Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial
On behalf of the LPM Collectors’ Group, I am very pleased to invite you to a tour of Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014 at the National Gallery of Canada on Thursday 19 February at 6 p.m. with Rhiannon Vogl, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada.
The exhibition, Shine a Light, includes over 80 works by 26 artists from across Canada and highlights a selection of recent acquisitions to the National Gallery of Canada’s Canadian Contemporary, Indigenous, and Photography holdings.
The exhibition as a whole is conceived as a number of smaller solo and group shows. While some galleries include monumental installations including Geoffrey Farmer’s Leaves of Grass, Shary Boyle’s The Cave Painter and Virus, and Luke Parnell’s Phantom Limbs and A Brief History of Northwest Coast Design, others present works in specific media including drawing, photography, and sculpture, that coalesce around themes of mark making, the psyche, modernism, environmentalism, and dystopia.
Rhiannon Vogl has produced a number of diverse and dynamic exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada including Store/Fronts; New Lines: Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada; the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts exhibitions from 2011-2015; Phil Collins: they shoot horses; and Spectral Landscape: Peter Doig, Sarah Anne Johnson and Tim Gardner. She has participated, as well, in the organization of both Steven Shearer: Exhume to Consume and Shary Boyle: Music for Silence at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and 2013. Rhiannon received her Master of Arts in Art History from Carleton University in 2007.
For more information about some of the works in the exhibition, please see the article at: http://www.ngcmagazine.ca/exhibitions/shining-the-light-on-four-biennial-artists
The fee for the tour is $25 for non-members. If you would like more information or would like to join us for the tour, please contact me for details.
Thank you and best wishes,
Julie
Julie Hodgson
LPM Development Maven
La Petite Mort Gallery