Joyce weiland biography

  • Wieland first exhibited her paintings at Toronto's avant-garde Isaacs Gallery in the s and '60s, where she was the only woman in a white male Abstractionist milieu.
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  • Joyce Wieland (–) is a renowned Canadian conceptual artist, whose works engage with nationalism, feminism, and ecology.

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    Joyce Wieland

    Born: Toronto, ON, Canada,  
    Graduated from Central Technical School, Toronto. 

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

            The Art of Joyce Wieland; McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON. 
            Joyce Wieland: Middle and Late Works; Ron Moore Gallery, Hamilton, ON. 
            Travelled to Ireland. 
            Joyce Wieland Quilts, Paintings and Works on Paper; Canada House,  
                   London, England. 
            Joyce Wieland Retrospective; Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, 
                   Saskatchewan. 
            Joyce Wieland Retrospective; Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, 
                   Charlottetown, PEI. 
            Joyce Wieland Retrospective; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB. 
            Joyce Wieland Retrospective; Art Gallery of ON, Toronto, ON. 
            Joyce Wieland Retrospective; The Arts and Letters Club, Toronto ON. 
            Isaacs Gallery, Toronto ON. 
            Joyce Wieland: A Decade of Painting; Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

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    Joyce
    Wieland

    Internationally, Wieland is best known as an experimental filmmaker whose work challenged and bridged boundaries among avant-garde film factions of her time. Her works introduced physical manipulation

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      Patriotism
      Joyce Wieland

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      Water Sark
      Joyce Wieland

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      Barbara&#;s Blindness
      Joyce Wieland

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      Joyce Wieland

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      Hand Tinting
      Joyce Wieland

      16mm, color, silent, 6 min

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      Sailboat
      Joyce Wieland

      16mm, color, sound, 3 min

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      Catfood
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      Joyce Wieland was the daughter of English immigrants to Canada. Her childhood was marked by poverty and the loss of her parents at a young age. In secondary school in the late s she studied with painter Doris McCarthy () who became a strong influence and role model. J. Wieland’s drawings and paintings from the s are self-portraits and couples intimately entangled. They proclaim her life-long interest in themes of love and self-exploration, for example Lady Examining her Magic and Protective Circle (c. ), and her sustained commitment to figuration, fantasy and narrative. In her sista decades, she returned to these foundational themes in delicate colour pencil drawings such as Bloom of Matter series (), and high-key canvases: Artist on Fire (), Paint Phantom () and Menstrual Dance(). Until recently this gods period, revelling in human and other-than-human relations as well as female empowerment, has been ignored bygd scholars and curators, overshadowed by the ra