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Hybrid Event | Artist Talk: Angela Grauerholz

Friday, November 18, 2022 16:00to17:00
McLennan Library Building 4th floor, ROAAr Colgate Room., 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
sepia toned urban cityscape
Image by © Angela Grauerholz.

Join us for an artist talk with celebrated photographer and graphic designer,ÌýAngelaÌýGrauerholz. This afternoon presentation investigates memory, the archive, and the subjectivity of vision acrossÌýthe artist’s own oeuvre.ÌýGrauerholzÌýwill activate ROAAr’s collections, which includes a large-scale photograph in the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Visual Arts Collection andÌýPrivationÌý(2002),Ìýan artist book inÌýRare Books and Special Collections.

Join ROAAr for this hybrid event. This event will be live-streamed for remote attendance, and we will be happy to host a limited number of in-person attendees.

Image and Credit:Ìý´¡²Ô²µ±ð±ô²¹Ìý³Ò°ù²¹³Ü±ð°ù³ó´Ç±ô³ú,ÌýHospital, 1987, Azo dye cibachrome print, 121 x 183 cm. Gift from Morton Spector, CPA, CA. ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Visual Arts Collection, 2022-001. ©ÌýAngelaGrauerholz


About the Speaker

Born in Germany and based in Montreal, Angela Grauerholz is one of Canada’s most distinguished artists. She has won prestigious awards such as the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas (2006), the Governor General Award in Visual and Media (2014), and Scotiabank Photography Award (2015). Her work is exhibited and collected by renowned national and international institutions. In the 1980s she co-founded ARTEXTE, a vital archive for the study of Canadian art in Montreal. And since 1988, she has been a professor at Université du Québec à Montréal École de Design.

About the VAC

The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Visual Arts Collection (VAC) – a member of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University Libraries’ÌýRare and Special Collections, Osler, Art, and ArchivesÌý(ROAAr) – includes more than three thousand works of art, spread across three campuses in more than ninety buildings. The Collection serves as a research resource, as campus enhancement, and as a laboratory for the training of students in art history and museum practice. It is also open to visitors through tours and a Visible Storage Gallery located on the fourth floor of the McLennan Library Building. The Collection is managed by Director of Curatorial Affairs Gwendolyn Owens and her team of professionals and interns.

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