Monica Tap

Monica Tap
Born Monica Tap
1962
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Education Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Known for Painting

Monica Tap (born 1962 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian painter, artist and academic. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, and teaches at the University of Guelph. She is known for engaging and challenging conventions around landscape and still-life painting.[1]

Artistic career

Tap has exhibited her work across Canada and abroad, and is currently represented by MKG127 in Toronto and Pete Robertson Gallery in Edmonton.[2][3]

Tap often uses photographs and video stills as source material for her paintings. Barry Schwabsky has noted that "her art offers one of the richest and most original revisionary instances of how the temporality of the act of looking can continue to keep painting in motion today".[4]

Education

Tap attended NSCAD University (BFA 1990, MFA 1996), and studied Fine Arts under Gerald Ferguson.[1] [3]

Exhibitions

Selected solo and two-person exhibitions [5]
Recent group exhibitions

Selected awards and honours

Examples of work

References

  1. 1 2 Tousley, Nancy Monica Tap: Painting and Perception Monica Tap Paintings ed. Susan Harrison. Montreal: ABC Art Books Canada, 2004. 11-21 Exhibition Catalogue
  2. http://www.monicatap.com/about.html
  3. 1 2 3 https://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/sites/uoguelph.ca.sofam/files/cv/CV_Tap.pdf
  4. Schwabsky, Barry (2014). Monica Tap: the pace of days. Guelph: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. pp. 8–13. ISBN 978-1-926875-04-0.
  5. http://www.monicatap.com/files/monica_tap_cv.pdf

External links

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