Renée Van Halm
Renée Van Halm | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 |
| Nationality | Canadian, Dutch |
| Education | MFA Concordia University in Montréal BFA Vancouver School of Art now Emily Carr University of Art and Design |
| Known for | installation, collage, painting |
| Website | reneevanhalm |
Renée Van Halm is a Canadian contemporary visual artist born in Haarlemmermeer, the Netherlands (1949) and immigrated to Canada in 1953.[1]
Exhibitions
[edit]Renée Van Halm has been featured in over 30 solo exhibitions including numerous exhibitions at the S.L. Simpson Gallery and Birch Contemporary in Toronto, Ontario, as well as Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Notable exhibitions include:
- Interior Projections at Mercer Union, Toronto, ON (1980)
- Voor Gerrit/Healing at University of Lethbridge, AB (1982)
- Songs of Experience at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON (1983)
- L’ eau à la bouche, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (1987)
- Anonymous Volumes, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON (1995)
- Dream Home, at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), BC (2002), Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB (2002),[2] and Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC (2003)[3]
- Reverse Engineering at the S.L. Simpson Gallery and Birch Contemporary in Toronto, ON (2009)[4]
- Cross-Cutting/Inside Out, a 35-year survey exhibition of her works on paper at the Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC (2012)[5][6][7]
- Shape of Things at the West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC (2017)[8]
Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as Aurora Borealis at the Centre international d'art contemporain, Montréal (1985),[9] weak thought (1997–98) at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Architypes at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2004) and the Embassy of Canada, Tokyo (2005), Cut and Paste at the Equinox Gallery(2012),[10] The Poetics of Space at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2015),[11] New Monuments Forget the Future at Birch Contemporary (2015),[12] Return of the Image at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB (2016),[13] Form Follows Fiction at UTAC, Toronto (2016),[14] and Elusive Utopias at the Judith and Norman Alix Gallery, Sarnia, ON (2017).[15]
Art practice
[edit]Renée Van Halm has a long-standing interest in the history of painting and the production of hybrid objects that blur the space between painting, sculpture and architecture. She is deeply invested the material processes of painting and the traditional terms of its construction.[16]
Of her artistic practice, Van Halm has written: "Cultural history and how we represent and inhabit architecture are fundamental to my work. Over the years I have looked at many subjects that reflect on art and design practices through the genres of still life and landscape as well as decor, abstraction and pattern. I am drawn to the expectations that underscore these preoccupations."[17]
Van Halm often incorporates art historical, painterly references, as well as allusions to architectural history. Art critic Robin Laurence writes: "Her art takes on presence and absence, private and public, intimacy and grandeur, modernism, pre-modernism, and postmodernism, all in a manner that is gorgeously painterly and rigorously critical. The sources of Van Halm’s imagery range from early Renaissance paintings (as in Study for Annunciation) to contemporary real-estate ads (9,760 SF., 3590 Osler), and from interior design publications (Bedroom Scene/Marcel) to her own photographs and collages (Pearls)."[18]
Selected collections
[edit]Van Halm's work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Art Gallery of Ontario; Bank of Montréal; City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection (Burnaby Art Gallery);[19] Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB; Canada Council Art Bank; Canadian House and Home magazine; Davies, Ward, NYC; Doris McCarthy Art Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough;[20] Government of Canada Department of Foreign Affairs; Household Financial Corporation; London Regional Art Gallery; London Life Insurance; McCarthy, Tetrault, Toronto; McLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON;[21] Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, QC;[22] National Gallery of Canada;[23] Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, Price Waterhouse; The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Royal Bank of Canada; Toronto Dominion Bank; Tory and Tory, Toronto;[24] University of Lethbridge; University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Commissions
[edit]- 2002 - Taste/100 painting of the 20th century, Keesee Office Building, now Kirkpatrick Bank, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- 2010 - South Hill (South Fraser) neighbourhood banner and mural project, Vancouver, BC
- 2015 - Awarded Joyce-Collingwood Skytrain Station public art commission, TransLink, Vancouver, BC
- 2016 - Façade Festival (projection), Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC[25]
References
[edit]- ^ "Renée Van Halm". www.gallery.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-05-07. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
- ^ Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB. "Dream Home Renée Van Halm". Archived from the original on 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ McKay, Sherry; Robertson, Lisa (2002). Renée Van Halm : Dream Home. Vancouver, BC: Contemporary Art Gallery; Kamloops, BC: Kamloops Art Gallery; Lethbridge, Alta: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2002. Contemporary Art Gallery. ISBN 9781551521350. Archived from the original on 2017-09-13.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "Reverse Engineering Review". Canadian Art Online. November 26, 2009. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ Robin Laurence (2012-07-15). "Renée Van Halm". Canadian Art. Archived from the original on 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ Laurence, Robin (February 12, 2012). "Review: Renée Van Halm's Cross-Cutting/Inside Out is Charged With Wonderful Contradictions". Architectural Institute of BC News from Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ Brodovitch, Sophie and Rachelle Sawatsky, Renée Van Halm: Cross-Cutting/Inside Out, 2012, Burnaby; Burnaby Art Gallery, ISBN 9781927364000
- ^ Morrison, Darrin (September 13, 2017). "Shape of Things". Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
- ^ "Aurora Borealis archival listing". Archived from the original on 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ Laurence, Robin (June 5, 2012). "Cut and Paste Smart and Visually Engaging Collage Exhibit". Archived from the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
- ^ "Article National Gallery of Canada Newsletter". February 14, 2017. Archived from the original on February 8, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
- ^ "Exhibition Review". February 14, 2017. Archived from the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
- ^ "Return of the Image". February 15, 2016. Archived from the original on September 22, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ "Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto – Art Museum at the University of Toronto". Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Archived from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
- ^ "Gallery listing". February 13, 2017. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
- ^ Bruce Grenville, weak thought, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1999
- ^ "Statement | Renée Van Halm". reneevanhalm.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
- ^ Laurence, Robin (February 2012). "Review: Renee Van Halm". Georgia Straight.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ Eijnsbergen, Ellen; Cane, Jennifer (2017). The Ornament of a House: 50 Years of Collecting. Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada: Burnaby Art Gallery. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-927364-23-9.
- ^ Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough, ON. "Collection list of artists". Archived from the original on 2017-05-01. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Artwork of the month, Maclaren Art Gallery". Archived from the original on 2017-11-02. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ "Inventory listing". Archived from the original on 2017-10-23. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ "Renee Van Halm National Gallery of Canada". Archived from the original on 2016-05-07. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
- ^ McInnis, Frances (April 1, 2013). "Renee Van Halm, Great Office Spaces, Tory and Tory offices". Toronto Life. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ "Facade Festival 2016 Artist Interview: Renée Van Halm". Burrard Arts Foundation. 2016-08-25. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
