David Blatherwick (artist)

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David Blatherwick
Born
David Blatherwick

1960 (age 63–64)
GD
, 1990)
Known forartist, educator

David Blatherwick RCA (born 1960 in

educator.[1][2][3]

Education

He received a

Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1984, a Master of Fine Arts from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1989, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 1990.[1][3] He is currently teaches at the University of Waterloo [4]

Career

In 1986 he was part of the Hybrid Cultures exhibit at Oboro gallery that showed the affinities between the art movements of

Musée du Québec.[1][2][3] His paintings and video installations brought him national attention in the late 1990s,[11] and in 2002 his work was included in the Biennale de Montreal.[12] In 2002 he became a member of Arte y Desarrollo, a group of development and experimental artists whose activities are centralized in rural Dominican Republic.[3] Blatherwick has been the subject of numerous reviews and publications.[1]

He has been guest speaker at

Guelph University.[1]

His work, through private sales or charity auctions,

Banque Nationale du Canada, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.[1] He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the University of Windsor, and has published and contributed to several critical essays, and publications.[1][3]

Work

His solo exhibition Cheese, Worms and the Holes in Everything, was presented at the

Art Gallery of Windsor in 2007,[14] Art Mûr gallery, in Montreal, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery of Oshawa in 2008.[15] Its production was also included in many exhibitions and was immortalized in a catalog of the same name.[3][14] Initially interested in the potential for interconnectivity suggested by new media and the internet, Blatherwick evoked the immense complexity of these center-less networks in his paintings.[15] Later in his career, his interest shifted to the more perilous biological activity found in our own bodies.[15] "Fusing the technological and the biological in a single frame of reference, David Blatherwick has evolved his painting language while offering ample high-tech and organic eye candy to the viewer's hungry eye" [16] Consistent throughout his entire oeuvre is a fascination with all forms of seething, rampant life, with organic shapes that bring to mind intestines, stomachs, molecules and viruses.[7][15]

Further reading

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "The Canadian Art Database: David Blatherwick". Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. Retrieved 2009-06-05.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b "David Blatherwick". Elora Centre for the Arts. Archived from the original on 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Art Mûr > artistes > David Blatherwick" (in French). Art Mûr. Archived from the original on 2009-04-20. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  4. ^ [1] Archived 2010-11-04 at the Wayback Machine U. of Waterloo faculty profile
  5. ^ Marchand, Keith (April 17, 1996). "Cultural trade between Mexico City and Montreal". Montreal Mirror. Archived from the original on July 9, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  6. ^ "The Interior of a Minute". YYZine. 2 (5). Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  7. ^ a b "Past Exhibits - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere". Gallery Stratford. Archived from the original on 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  8. ISBN 978-2-551-21871-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  9. ISBN 978-0-8229-5771-3
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  10. ^
    ISBN 9782551213085
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  11. ^ Krishtalka, Sholem (April 27, 2000). "Topsy-turvy beauty". Montreal Mirror. Archived from the original on July 23, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  12. ^ "David Blatherwick (Canada)". Biennale de Montreal 2002. Archived from the original on 2006-06-27. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  13. ^ Dharmarajah, Thana (October 31, 2008). "Ga ga for Gala Elora". Guelph Mercury. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  14. ^
    ISBN 978-0-919837-77-5
    . Retrieved June 5, 2009.
  15. ^ a b c d Redfern, Christine (June 14, 2008). "Affecting and infecting space". The Gazette. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  16. ^ Campbell, James D. "David Blatherwick", Canadian Art, Winter 2006
  17. ^ Vancouver Art Gallery (1987). "Vanguard". 16. Vancouver Art Gallery. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. C magazine
    . Retrieved June 6, 2009.
  19. ISBN 9782915179019
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  20. ISBN 978-0-8109-6749-6
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