Artist CV:BORN:Toronto, Ontario, 1951. Currently living in Parry Sound, Ont. STUDIED: Fine Arts, Humber College, Toronto 1970-1974 New School of Art, Toronto Arts Council Grant to study at Burleighfield School, Great Britain, 1976 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: The Quiet Snow – Amsterdam Canals – New Work of Georgian Bay & Italy, Roberts Gallery, 2011 Georgian Bay – Further Explorations & Petrushka, Roberts Gallery, 2009 Venice – Georgian Bay, Roberts Gallery, Toronto, 2008 Place, Reflections on Venice and Georgian Bay, Station Gallery, Parry Sound, 2007 Into the Night, Roberts Gallery, Toronto, 2005 In Town – On the Bay, Station Gallery, Parry Sound, 2004 New Work pastels on paper, Roberts Gallery, Toronto, 2003 Paris Day & Night, Roberts Gallery, Toronto, 2001 Home Country, District Museum, Parry Sound, 2000 Latcham Gallery, Srouffville, 2001 In Mexico, Toronto Reference Library, 1997 Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, 1998 Grimsby Public Art Gallery, 1998 Inner Islands-Outer Islands, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, 1995 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Stifung Buchkunst, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Germany, 2006 Beyond the Book, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, 2005 Alcuin Society, exhibition of Excellence in Book Design in Canada, 2004-05 Vaughan Memorial Library. Acadia University. Emily Carr Institute of Design. WAC Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University, Redpath Library, McGill. University of Alberta. Design Exchange, Toronto. Art of the Book ’03, Third prize, York Quay Gallery, opening, 2003-04 Organized by CBBAG, National touring exhibit, (juror) Painted Sound, Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, with CSPWC, 2002-03 Ink Paper Lead, Board Leather Thread, Touring exhibition, Canada Trust Gallery, Toronto Reference Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections Library, Queens University Kingston, Gallery Stratford, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, 02-03 Drawing, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, 2001-05 The Eye and the Hand, Etobicoke Civic Art Gallery, 2001 Alcuin Society, Exhibition of Excellence in Book Design in Canada, First Prize, 2001-02 Vancouver Craft Museum, Acadia University, Emily Carr Institute of Design, Redpath Library, McGill The Book an Evolution in Meaning., First prize, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2001 SCA Open Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, 2000-02 The Library Project, travelling, organized by University of Manitoba, 2001 A Brush With History, 75th Anniversary Exhibit CSPWC, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2000 Arts 2000, RCA juried exhibit, Gallery Stratford, 2000 If you go down in the woods today… Works by members of the North American Wood Engravers Network, Line Gallery, Scotland, 1999 Open Water juried CSPWC exhibit, John B Aird gallery, Toronto, 1993-05 Artist Members Exhibition of Contemporary Bookworks, Centre for Book Arts, NYC. Connecticut University, USA, 1998 Art of the Book ’98, National touring exhibit, Organized by CBBAG, Award for Fine Printing, 1998-99 Fine Printing: the Private Press in Canada, National touring exhibit, opening Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library, 1995-97 HAND PRINTED LIMITED EDITION ARTIST BOOKS: Islands (1994) compiled by Alan Stein. edition 50, 17 engravings 40pages, o/p In Mexico (1996) by Al Purdy. edition 50, 10 engravings, 80 pages, o/p Towards the Open, Georgian Bay Poems (1998), by Douglas LePan edition 75, 10 engravings, 62 pages, o/p Home Country (2000) by Al Purdy. edition 105, 13 engravings 101 pages Say the Names (2001) by Al Purdy. edition 5, 1 engraving 6 pages In Smoke, Ten Variations on Eugenio Montale (2005), by Gary Michael Dault, edition 80, 4 engravings, 38 pages COLLECTIONS: Canada: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Massey College Library, and Victoria Library, University of Toronto; Toronto Reference Library; McGill Univ. Library Rare book Collection, Redpath Collection, Montreal; MacKimmie Library, Univ. of Calgary; Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, Univ. of Alberta; libraries at UBC; Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University, B.C. National Library of Canada, Redpath Collection USA: New York Public Library, Rare Book Dept.; Wellesley College Library, NY. Others: National Library of Ireland; National Library of New Zealand, Book and Type Museum, National Library of Germany. PUBLICATIONS: Fraser, Lynn, Canadian Bookseller magazine, 2006 Arseneau, Laura Beyond the Book, 2005 Dault, Gary Michael, Globe & Mail, 2003 Donelly, Judy, Devils Artisan #52, 2003 Ink Paper Lead, Board Leather Thread, catalogue, Coach House Press, 2002 Lichen, Spring, 2001 Govier, Katherine, Devil’s Artisan, 2001 Purdy, Al. “The 30,000 Islands of Georgian Bay”, Imperial Oil Review, 1999 Queens Quarterly, volume 103, #2, 1999 |
