[work in photo] Sonny Assu, Re-Invaders: Digital Intervention on an Emily Carr Painting (Indian Church, 1929), 2014, archival inkjet print, framed: 40 x 30 cm. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. © Sonny Assu. 2018/3587.
Northern Pine Lecture Series: Georgiana Uhlyarik
Thursday, February 18, 2021 | 4 to 5 pm
Drawing the Dynamic Figure: Kathleen Munn and the Group of Seven
Throughout her career Toronto-based artist Kathleen Munn (1887 – 1974) was first and foremost a dedicated student of the human figure. Her drawings from the 1920s and 1930s allow for a deeper understanding of the development of modern art in Canada and of how artists responded to contemporary ideas that were in play in the international art world at a time when very little avant-garde art was being shown in Canada. Munn shaped her own vision rather than follow the direction promoted by the national art movement represented by the Group of Seven. Uhlyarik will discuss Munn’s unique drawing practice and her association with Group artists, as she was invited to exhibit alongside them in 1927.
This exhibition is organized in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Northern Pine: Watercolours and Drawings by the Group of Seven from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection‘.
[Painting shown in photograph above] Sonny Assu, Re-Invaders: Digital Intervention on an Emily Carr Painting (Indian Church, 1929), 2014, archival inkjet print, framed: 40 x 30 cm. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. © Sonny Assu. 2018/3587.
Speaker Bio: Georgiana Uhlyarik
Georgiana Uhlyarik is Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, and co-lead of the Indigenous + Canadian Art Department at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Her recent collaborations include exhibitions and publications: Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak, the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous + Canadian Art, Georgia O’Keeffe (Tate Modern), Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry (Jewish Museum, NY); Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic (Terra Foundation for American Art and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo); Introducing Suzy Lake and The Passion of Kathleen Munn. Uhlyarik is currently an adjunct faculty member in Art History departments at York University and University of Toronto, and research associate, Modern Literature & Culture, Ryerson University. Originally from Romania, she lives in Toronto with her twin sons.
FREE. Registration required. Limited Capacity.
