Sandra Meigs

Sandra Meigs, (born 1953, Baltimore, MD, USA)[1] is a Canadian visual artist based in British Columbia, Canada.

Biography

Sandra Meigs was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1953. She began her career as a painter in Toronto, and in 1993, moved to Victoria, British Columbia[2][3] where she is a Professor in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria.[2] Meigs obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in Halifax in 1975,[4] and then completed her Master of Philosophy at Dalhousie University (also in Halifax) in 1980.[4]

Meigs’ paintings have been exhibited internationally at venues including The Power Plant, Toronto;[2] Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver;[2] Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna;[2] Freedman Gallery Albright College, Pennsylvania;[2] Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto;[2] National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa;[1][2] Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver;[2] Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto;[2] Galerie Chantal Boulanger, Montréal;[2] Musée Regional de Rimouski, Rimouski;[2] the Fodor Museum, Amsterdam;[2] and the fifth Biennale of Sydney.[2]

She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[5] In 2015 she was awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts[6] and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize.[7]

Art Practice

Meigs is known for her vivid, enigmatic paintings that combine dense narratives with comic elements.[8] Her paintings are often provocative, providing layers of meaning that are gradually revealed. Her work typically explores psychological spaces and philosophical ideas, and, as John Bentley Mays notes in a National Post article,“[Meigs’] topics are those of the cave-painters of the Stone Age and artists ever since: the body, light and darkness, storytelling.”[9] Her works usually contain an element of paradox that encourages viewers to look for multiple meanings.[10] As David Jager writes in NOW Magaine, “Sandra Meigs’ textured surfaces and silhouette shapes seem casually naive at first glance, but they are actually carefully planned. Layering the canvas with gesso, she produces smooth raised lines and surfaces whose negative spaces hold as many surprises as her blobby and colourful shapes.” [11] Meigs works in various media and often experiments with new techniques and unusual combinations of materials. Her 2010 body of work entitled The Fold Heads, for example, straddles the line between painting and sculpture.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sandra Meigs". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Visual Arts Faculty & staff Sandra Meigs". University of Victoria. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "CCCA Profile for Sandra Meigs". The Centre for Canadian Contemporary Art. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Sandra Meigs". The CCCA Canadian Art Database Project. Concordia University. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Sandra Meigs". Canada Council for the Arts. Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Sandra Meigs Wins the 2015 Gershon Iskowitz Prize". AGO.net. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "This is Paradise: From the National Gallery of Canada Collection." The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Accessed June 7, 2013.
  9. ↑ Bentley, John Mays. “The thinking person’s artist”. The National Post (1 September 2001)
  10. ↑ McMackon, Jennifer. "Scenes from My Affection at Susan Hobbs Gallery." Big Red and Shiny Journal. Accessed June 7, 2013.
  11. ↑ Jager, David. “Fresh Wind From the West: Three Vancouver Conceptual Artists Play with Colour and Form”. Now Magazine (March 2–8, 2006)
  12. ↑ Milroy, Sarah. "Eminent Victorian". Canadian Art, Summer 2010

External links

• Artist’s Website (http://www.sandrameigs.com/)

• Canadian Art “See It” review (http://www.canadianart.ca/see-it/2010/02/11/sandra-meigs/)

• Information on 2010 exhibition at Susan Hobbs Gallery (http://www.susanhobbs.com/exhibition_2010_meigs.html)

• Visual Arts, University of Victoria (http://finearts.uvic.ca/visualarts/contacts/facultystaff/smeigs/index.htm)

• Review by Chen Tamir in C Magazine (http://chentamir.com/writings/tamir-meigs.pdf_

Further reading

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, March 28, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.