BRUSH UP
Brush Up is a newsletter produced by the Art Gallery of Mississauga three times a year.Free copies of Brush Up are available at the Gallery and participating community centres and libraries in Mississauga. Become a member of the Art Gallery of Mississauga to have Brush Up mailed to you.
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Brush Up | Winter 2012
Lila Lewis Irving
Con Spirito | A Retrospective
Mar 1 - Apr 25
Spontaneity is the root of invention for Mississauga artist Lila Lewis Irving. This exhibit
highlights a career spanning fifty years and igniting movement inspired by a contagious and enigmatic spirit.
Brush Up | Fall 2011
Eat Drink Man Woman
Nov 10 - Dec 22
What is more important than our relationships with food? The artwork in this exhibition engages with the changing role of food in contemporary society and in contemporary art
Brush Up | Summer 2011
Meet Us on the Commons
July 21 - September 11
The artists in this exhibition explore familiar public spaces as well as the people who define them. The defiant actions of youth transform built environments into shared gathering places that welcome play, discovery and belonging.
Brush Up | Spring 2011
Picture House: The Art of Bollywood
May 12 - July 10
Picture House is a tribute to painted billboards and posters for Indian cinema. This exhibition highlights the profound influence of Bollywood on India’s visual culture and its people.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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This list is not inclusive of all published material produced by the AGM. We encourage you to visit The Resource Room in 2012 for a more comprehensive list and information in person or contact the Gallery.
Art At Work: Corporate Collecting Practices Today
(2011; ISBN: 978-1-895436839)
FREE online catalogue
102 pages with colour reproductions
Introduction by AGM Director and Curator Robert Freeman
Essay "Art At Work: Reflections on Corporate Collecting"
by exhibtion curator Geraldine Davis
Produced by the Art Gallery of Mississauga
$25.00
Amin Rehman: White Wash
(2011; ISBN: 978-1-895436853)
48 pages with colour reproductions
Foreword by AGM Director and exhibition curator Robert Freeman. Essay "Palimpsest: A Messy State of Affairs" by Ken Giles. Essay "Shipwreck and Whitewash: Metaphors for Dismantling the Rhetoric of Aggression" by Amra Ali
Produced by the Art Gallery of Mississauga
$12.00
Ali Adil Khan with Asma Arshad Mahmood:
Picture House: The Art of Bollywood
(2011; ISBN:978-1-895436860)
48 pages with colour reproductions
Foreword by AGM Director and exhibition curator Robert Freeman. Curator's note by Ali Adil Khan and Asma Arshad Mahmood. Note from the chair Asma Arshad Mahmood
Selected Works writeups by Ali Adil Khan
Produced by the Art Gallery of Mississauga
$15.00
Abraham Anghik Ruben: Shaman's Dreams
(2010; ISBN 978-1-895436-82-2)
FREE online catalogue
86 pages with colour reproductions
Foreword by AGM Director and exhibition curator Robert Freeman. Essay by Roslyn Tunis. Selected Works writeups and the essay "Memories: An Ancient Past" by Abraham Anghik Ruben. Produced by the Art Gallery of Mississauga
Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Kipling Gallery, Vaughn.
$35.00 CD version available for $4.99
Cal Lane: Sweet Crude
(2009; ISBN 978-2-923243-03-0)
96 pages with colour reproductions
Foreword by Rheal Olivier Lanthier and Francois St-Jacques. Preface by Kay Hartenstein Saatchi
Introduction by Ray Cronin. Essays by Michael Rattray and Eve De Garie-Lamanque. Produced by Art Mur, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery
$35.00
Linda Duvall: Where were the Mothers?
(2009; ISBN 978-1-895436-78-5)
48 pages with colour video stills
Introduction by exhibition curators Amanda Cachia and Robert Freeman
Essays by Peggy Gale, David Garneau and Ruben Gaztambide Fernandez.
Produced by the Art Gallery of Mississauga, in collaboration with Dunlop Art Gallery
$15.00 (includes book and CD)
Bazgasht: Traditional Methods & Modern Practices
(2009; ISBN 978-1895436-74-7)
54 pages with colour reproductions
Directors' Note by Asma Arshad Mahmood and Robert Freeman
Essays by Deepali Dewan and Ali Adil Khan
Distributed by ABC Books Canada
Artists in the exhibition and catalogue:
Waseem Ahmed; Sylvat Aziz; Ambreen Butt; Ayesha Durrani; Nandini Gandhi; Aisha Khalid; Hasnat Mahmood; Tazeen Qayyum; Noreen Qqamar; Muhammad Imran Qureshi; Nusra Latif Qureshi; Talha Rathore; Reeta Saeed; The Singh Twins; Cole Swanson; Nathulal Verma; Saira Wasim; Sumaira Tazeen; Sabeen Raja; Sehr Jalal; Muhammad Zeeshan
$15.00
Explorers and Dandies in an open letter to Canada Post:
Frederick Hagan & Kent Monkman (2008)
72 pages with colour reproductions
Essays by Annemarie Hagan, Mark Kingwell and exhibition curator, Su-Ying Lee
$15.00
Vessna Perunovich: Emblems of the Enigma (2007)
211 pages with colour reproductions
Foreword by Pamela Edmonds and Michael Burtch
Essays by exhibition curator, Donald Brackett; Liz Wylie; Debbie O'Rourke; Robin Metcalfe; Ivan Jurakic; Andrew King; Robert Freeman
Artist writings by Vessna Perunovich
Afterword by Stuart Reid
Co produced by Art Gallery of Peterborough, Cambridge Galleries, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Art Gallery of Algoma, Saint Mary's University Gallery, Kelowna Art Gallery
$35.00
Viktor Tinkl: Making Things (2007)
55 pages with colour reproductions
Exhibition and catalogue co-produced by the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
Acknowledgements by Robert Freeman
Introduction and interview by Linda Jansma
Essay by Duncan Farnan
$15.00
Outside Coming In: "A State of Freedom" Canadian "Outsider Art" (2006)
14 pages with colour reproductions
Foreword by Robert Freeman
Text by Duncan Farnan, Guest Curator
Artists in the exhibition & catalogue:
Anonymous; Bill Anhang & Glenn Luckock; Stanko Anicic; Thomas Canning; Manuel Da Rosa; Richard Greaves; Menno Krant; Jahan Maka; Sorgente Palmerino; Alma Rumball; Rocky; Scottie Wilson
$3.00
Over Here: Women, Work and WWII
Johnnene Maddison
A collaboration between Museum London, McIntosh Gallery, Thames Art Gallery and Gallery Lambton
38 pages with colour reproductions
Essays by Aldona Sendzikas, Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Western Ontario; Madeline Lennon, Professor, Department of Visual Arts, The University of Western Ontario; contextual text by Johnnene Maddison
Tom La Pierre
44 pages with colour reproductions
Introduction by Tobi Bruce, Senior Curator, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Short essay by Robert Freeman, Curator, Art Gallery of Mississauga
Inuit Sculpture Now
Catalogue produced by the National Gallery of Canada
35 pages with colour reproductions
Essay and interviews by Christine Lalonde, Acting Associate Curator, Inuit Art, National Gallery of Canada
Tribute: The Art of African Canadians
Co-published with the Art Gallery of Peel
36 pages with colour reproductions
Essay by Neville Clarke, exhibition curator
