Media Preview for the Ross King exhibition about the Group of Seven - the wait is over!!! Bobak too!

MEDIA PREVIEW
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
10:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Exhibition explores the bold emergence of Modernism
through Canadian artists

BREAKING NEWS: ROSS KING'S BOOK, DEFIANT SPIRITS HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE BEST NON-FICTION AWARD BY THE WRITER'S TRUST - SEPT. 27, 2010. COME MEET THE AUTHOR ON THE 28th AT THE McMICHAEL

When: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Where: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg (just north of the Major Mackenzie Drive, Islington Avenue intersection)

Why: Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and guest-curated by internationally renowned, Governor General’s Award-winning author Ross King. A Canadian citizen living near Oxford, England, King has probed the characters, personalities, and times of the Group of Seven to tell a compelling, new story of these enormously influential artists and dynamic period in Canadian history. The exhibition opens on October 2, 2010.

Who: Meet exhibition curator and author, Ross King; meet McMichael Chief Curator, Katerina Atanassova.

What: This fall, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection will feature an insightful exhibition about the Group of Seven. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven explores the emergence of the modernist art movement within Canada. Although unfailingly controversial, modernism spread widely and rapidly as young artists who had studied in France returned to their homelands and began interpreting their own landscapes in the light of modern pictorial advances. In Canada, the most notable practitioners of this kind of modernist art – though by no means the only ones – would be the Group of Seven.

View over sixty works by the Group of Seven and other Canadian artists Paul Signac French, P.C. Sheppard, David Milne, Florence H. McGillivray, John Goodwin Lyman, R.S. Hewton, John Sloan Gordon, L.L. FitzGerald, William H. Clapp, Emily Carr, and Bertram Brooker.

The exhibition will be on at the McMichael from October 2, 2010 to January 30, 2011.

About the Gallery
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is an agency of the Government of Ontario and acknowledges the support of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture. It is the foremost venue in the country showcasing the Group of Seven and their contemporaries. In addition to touring exhibitions, its permanent collection consists of more than 5,500 artworks, including paintings by the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, First Nations and Inuit artists. The gallery is located on Islington Avenue, north of Major Mackenzie Drive in Kleinburg, and is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors/students and $30 for families. There is a $5 fee for parking. For more information about the gallery, visit www.mcmichael.com.

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Please RSVP:
Stephen Weir, Publicist
Gallery: 905.893.1121 ext. 2529
Toronto Office: 416.489.5868
Cell: 416.801.3101
sweir@mcmichael.com

SECOND MEDIA PREVIEW SAME DAY



MEDIA PREVIEW
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
10:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Exhibition expresses Canadian artist’s fascination with the human body and soul

When: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 10:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Where: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg (just north of the intersection, Major Mackenzie Drive and Islington Avenue)

Why: Bruno Bobak: Love, Life and Death, developed by McMichael’s Assistant Curator, Collections, Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, highlights the figurative works (including a selection of portraits) that the East Coast-based artist produced between the early 1960s and 1980.

Love, Life and Death provides an in-depth look into the artist’s fascination with the body through a set of narratives that focus on human relations, the family, life cycle and a myriad of emotions from love, joy and tenderness to pain and despair.

Who: Meet the McMichael’s Assistant Curator, Collections, Sharona Adamowicz-Clements.

What: Bruno Bobak: Love, Life and Death exhibition runs September 18 to December 5, 2010, and offers a large selection of paintings and some works on paper from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

About the Gallery

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is an agency of the Government of Ontario and acknowledges the support of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture. It is the foremost venue in the country showcasing the Group of Seven and their contemporaries. In addition to touring exhibitions, its permanent collection consists of more than 5,500 artworks, including paintings by the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, First Nations and Inuit artists. The gallery is located on Islington Avenue, north of Major Mackenzie Drive in Kleinburg, and is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors/students and $30 for families. There is a $5 fee for parking. For more information about the gallery, visit www.mcmichael.com.

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To RSVP, please contact:
Stephen Weir, Publicist
Gallery: 905.893.1121 ext. 2529
Toronto Office: 416.489.5868
Cell: 416.801.3101
sweir@mcmichael.com

Breaking News: McMichael Canadian Art Collection will remain open throughout the G8 and G20 Summits

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McMichael Canadian Art Collection will remain open throughout the G8 and G20 Summits

Experience the exceptional reinstallation of the gallery’s renowned permanent collection plus two new exhibitions!


June 16, 2010 Kleinburg, Ontario… The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the only major public gallery in Canada to exclusively collect and exhibit Canadian art, announced today that it will remain open throughout the G8 and G20 Summits – June 25 to 27, 2010. The gallery will be open 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. seven days a week throughout the summer.
“I think that any G8 and G20 visitors, be they delegates or press, wanting to experience the very best in Canadian art should make a point of visiting the McMichael,” said gallery Executive Director and CEO, Tom Smart. “We are the spiritual home of the Group of Seven and display remarkable works by First Nations and Inuit artists. We have always had a policy of being 100% Canadian in terms of what we collect and exhibit.”
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is located in the village of Kleinburg, just minutes from Pearson International Airport and a short drive from downtown Toronto. The McMichael offers visitors the unique opportunity to enjoy Canadian landscape paintings in the woodland setting that inspired them. The gallery is situated amidst 100 acres of serene conservation land and housed in a sprawling complex of intimate galleries and exhibition halls built of fieldstone and hand-hewn logs. Floor-to-ceiling windows enable gallery-goers to take in marvelous views of the densely wooded Humber River Valley as they enter and exit the gallery spaces.
During the G8 and G20 summit the gallery has three special exhibits on display. These exhibitions are:
The Group of Seven: Revelations and Changing Perspectives
Curated by Katerina Atanassova, Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, Chris Finn
To mark the 90th anniversary of the Group of Seven’s first exhibition, rarely seen works from the McMichael collection and private collections are arrayed in the galleries in new and dynamic ways, opening up new themes and ideas to explore.
Following in the Footsteps of the Group of Seven
Curated by Sharona Adamowicz-Clements and Linda Morita
For over thirty years, art enthusiasts Jim and Sue Waddington have been locating the exact sketching sites for artworks by Group of Seven members. This enchanting exhibition showcases the Group’s art alongside stunning photographs taken of the original locations that inspired these artworks some eighty years ago.
Dorothy Knowles: Land Marks
Organized by the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery
Curated by Terry Fenton
This exhibition celebrates Knowles’ favourite subjects—the lush river valleys and prairie landscapes that characterized her rural childhood. Knowles radically chose to document her own backyard during a time when abstract art was rapidly gaining ground.
About the McMichael
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is an agency of the Government of Ontario and acknowledges the support of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture. It is the foremost venue in the country showcasing the Group of Seven and their contemporaries. In addition to touring exhibitions, its permanent collection consists of more than 5,500 artworks, including paintings by the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, First Nations and Inuit artists. The gallery is located at 10365 Islington Avenue, north of Major Mackenzie Drive in Kleinburg, and is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For directions and information, visit www.mcmichael.com.

CUTLINE: Sask. Artist Dorothy Knowles attended the recent opening of her exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
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Media Contact

Stephen Weir, Publicist
Gallery: 905.893.1121 ext. 2529
Toronto Office: 416.489.5868
Cell: 416.801.3101
sweir@mcmichael.com