To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

How to transfigure the Wikipedia

Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? We have created a browser extension. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.

Try it — you can delete it anytime.

Install in 5 seconds
4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
Great Wikipedia has got greater.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Shirley Wiitasalo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shirley Wiitasalo
Born1949
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma materOCAD University
Known forpainter
MovementAbstraction
AwardsGovernor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (2011), The Gershon Iskowitz Prize (1998)

Shirley Wiitasalo (born 1949) is a Canadian painter whose work is characterized by abstract shapes and lines based on urban environments.[1] In 2011 she won the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.[2]

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    1 353
    664
    4 681
  • Carol Wainio, 2014 Canada Council laureate – a film by Julie Perron
  • OCAD: Social Body Lab
  • In the Studio: Adam Fowler

Transcription

Life and work

Wiitasalo was born in 1949 in Toronto where she continues to live and work. From 1967-68 she studied at the Ontario College of Art with François Thépot.[2] From 1974 to 1991 she was represented by the former Carmen Lamanna Gallery. Since 1993 Wiitasalo has been represented by Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto.[3]

In 1986 she received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council.[4] In 1998 Wiitasalo won The Gershon Iskowitz Prize a $50,000 cash prize and a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario.[5]

According to a nomination statement given by artist, Ian Carr-Harris at the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, Wiitasalo has over the course of her 30-year long career 'both inherited and shifted the practice of painting'.[6] Her work has been described as "lush washes of colour and pattern and ethereal swipes of obscuring neutrals".[7]

Wiitasalo has used photographic emulsions in her work, her 1981 painting Interior was created on a stretched canvas painted with Liquid Light, an image was projected onto it and finished with Bellini oils.[8]

Major exhibitions

Wiitasalo has exhibited widely across Canada in museums, artist run centres, and commercial galleries. Notably, in 2000 she had a solo exhibition at The Power Plant and was included in the exhibition Some Canadian Women Artists organized by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.[9] Internationally she has participated in exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (1993);[10] Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1993); GreeneNaftali, New York (1999); in 1981 the National Gallery of Canada organized the exhibition titled, 20th Century Canadian Painting, which travelled to The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan, and Oita Perfectural Art Centre, Oita City, Kyusha, Japan.[11]

Further reading

  • Enright, Robert (August 2005). "Elusive Clarity: An Interview with Shirley Wiitasalo". Border Crossings (95).
  • Monk, Philip (1987). Shirley Wiitasalo. The Art Gallery of Ontario. ISBN 0919777511.
  • Newlands, Anne (2007). Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings. Firefly Books. ISBN 9781554072903.

References

  1. ^ "Shirley Wiitasalo - National Gallery of Canada | National Gallery of Canada". gallery.ca. 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  2. ^ a b Bradley, Jessica (September 14, 2011). "Shirley Wiitasalo". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  3. ^ "Shirley Wiitasalo". www.susanhobbs.com. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Prizes". Canada Council. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Shirley Wiitasalo Nomination Statement by Ian Carr-Harris" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  6. ^ Vaughn, R.M. (2015). "Shirley Wiitasalo, right down to the peek-a-boo - The Globe and Mail". theglobeandmail.com. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  7. ^ Wallert Arie (1995). Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice. Getty Conservation Institute. p. 193. ISBN 978-0892363223.
  8. ^ "Collections - Shirley Wiitasalo". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Kunsthalle Bern - HÖFER CANDIDA, WIITASALO SHIRLEY". kunsthalle-bern.ch. 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  10. ^ "Shirley Wiitasalo - biography". www.susanhobbs.com. Susan Hobbs Gallery. Retrieved 12 March 2015.

External links

This page was last edited on 6 February 2024, at 22:18
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.
Contact WIKI 2
Introduction
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy