Audrey Capel Doray
Audrey Capel Doray | |
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Born | 1931 |
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Known for | Electronic installation artist |
Spouse | Victor Doray |
Audrey Capel Doray (born 1931) is a Canadian artist working in a variety of mediums—painting,
Life and career
Born Audrey Capel in
In 1956, she married the artist and
The earliest local artist to attempt to make Mcluanesqhue paintings was Audrey Capel Doray whose last series on canvas 1965, before she turned to sound, motion and light, was about the transformation of Typographic Man into Electronic Man. Capel Doray went on to produce some of the most emblematic work of the period involving light, sound and motion before returning to painting in the seventies.[6]
Audrey and Victor Doray were instrumental in founding the Intermedia Society in 1967. Inspired in part by the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, it was a place for artists from multiple disciplines to meet and collaborate and was supported partly by grants from the Canada Council.[7] Intermedia remained an influential force in the artistic life of Vancouver for the next decade. Among the initiatives it spawned were the Video Inn (a repository and exchange of video art) and the Western Front Society. The 2008 exhibition Idyll at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, featured Doray's multimedia works from this period, with the catalog describing her as "a pioneer of interactive and multimedia art that incorporated computers."[8][9]
Following her solo shows at the Vancouver Art Gallery at the New Design Gallery, she showed at Simon Fraser University in 1966,[2] the Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver, and at the Jerrold Morris Gallery in Toronto. Her work was also exhibited in the 6th Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting at the National Gallery of Canada in 1965.[10] By the late 1960s Doray became known for her transparent plastic kinetic-audio-light sculptures exhibited both in Canada and the United States. She related these multi-sensory haptic-like works to art educator Viktor Lowenfield's teaching of perception by touch in his book, Creative and Mental Growth.[11]
Art in America featured Audrey's Hexagon. This is a six-panelled polarized light kinetic audio installation that they considered inherent in the electronic medium.[12] An interview with her in Vanguard in 1978, set against her solo exhibition that year at the Bau-Xi Gallery, discussed her work in murals, animated film, electronic art and the themes of motion and continual flux in her paintings.[13][14]
The Doray's established a summer retreat on
Doray's work is in the permanent collections of the
References
- ^ a b c Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (eds.) (2013). "Doray, Audrey Capel". North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, p. 160. Routledge
- ^ a b c National Gallery of Canada (2008). "Doray, Audrey". Artists in Canada. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ a b Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. "Audrey Capel Doray". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. "Victor Doray". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ISBN 0-920095-00-3.
- ISBN 1-895442-61-3.
- ^ Westell, Tracy (1980). "Introduction". Intermedia Society: An Inventory of Their Papers in the Library of the University of British Columbia, Special Collections Division pp. iii–vi.
- ^ Laurence, Robin (16 July 2008). "Belkin Gallery presents a blast from our hippie past". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ "Audrey Capel Doray and Joan Balzar in conversation with Lorna Brown". University of British Columbia. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- The Montreal Gazette, p. 24. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Lowenfeld, Viktor (1947). Creative and Mental Growth, A Textbook on Art Education (5th printing). USA: The Macmillan Company.
- ^ Lord, Barry (May–June 1968). "Canads: The Stir in Vancouver". Art in America. 56 (3): 118, 119.
- ^ Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (July 2008). "Audrey Capel Doray and Joan Balzar in conversation with Lorna Brown". University of British Columbia. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Lerner, Loren R.; Williamson, Mary F. (1991). Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981, Volume 1, p. 555. University of Toronto Press
- ^ Burnaby Art Gallery. Core Burst[permanent dead link]. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ West Vancouver Museum. (2014). The And of the Land: Perspectives on Landscape by Artists from British Columbia Archived April 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- Tate Gallery. Artworks: Diamond 1967–8. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ National Gallery of Canada. Collections: Diamond, 1967. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. Audrey Capel Doray Archived May 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
- ^ Capel Doray, Audrey. "Must-Sees This Week: September 11 to 17, 2014 - Canadian Art". www.canadianart.ca. Canadian Art Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-06-29.
External links
- Artist's page at Doray's representatives, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art
- Video: Audrey Capel Doray in conversation (Idyll: Three Exhibitions, May 16 to August 10, 2008) on the official YouTube channel of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery