David Blatherwick (artist)

David Blatherwick
Born David Blatherwick
1960
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Education 1984
BA, Ryerson University
1989
MFA, Université du Québec à Montréal
1990
GD, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

David Blatherwick (born 1960 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian artist and educator.[1][2][3]

Education

He received a Bachelor of Arts in design from Ryerson University in 1984, a Master of Fine Arts from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1989, and a degree from 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 Mexico City and Montreal.[5] His first solo exhibition was in Montréal in 1988, and he has since been included in numerous museum exhibitions,[1][6][7] including solo at the Art Gallery of Windsor, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[8] Taichung in Taiwan, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh,[9] and as part of group exhibitions at galleries including Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Metamorphose et Clônage,[10] Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,[10] Power Plant in Toronto, Museo de Arte Moderno, 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 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 Mattress Factory, University of Lethbridge, Concordia University, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, University of Western Ontario, Musée Du Québec, and Guelph University.[1]

His work, through private sales or charity auctions,[13] is held in numerous public and private collections, including Art Bank of Canada, Banque Nationale du Canada, and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 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 Art 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]

Additional reading

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "The Canadian Art Database: David Blatherwick". Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  2. 1 2 "David Blatherwick". Elora Centre for the Arts. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Art Mûr > artistes > David Blatherwick" (in French). Art Mûr. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  4. ↑ U. of Waterloo faculty profile
  5. ↑ Marchand, Keith (April 17, 1996). "Cultural trade between Mexico City and Montreal". Montreal Mirror. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  6. ↑ "The Interior of a Minute". YYZine. 2 (5).
  7. 1 2 "Past Exhibits - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere". Gallery Stratford. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  8. ↑ Regine Basha, David Blatherwick, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2003). David Blatherwick: en pensant à toi. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. ISBN 978-2-551-21871-4.
  9. ↑ Michael Olijnyk; Claudia Giannini; Mattress Factory; Barbara Luderowski (2001). Installations, Mattress Factory, 1990-1999 (illustrated ed.). Mattress Factory. ISBN 978-0-8229-5771-3.
  10. 1 2 Sandra Grant Marchand; Jean-Ernest Joos; Véronique Lefebvre (2001). Métamorphoses et clonage. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
  11. ↑ Krishtalka, Sholem (April 27, 2000). "Topsy-turvy beauty". Montreal Mirror. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  12. ↑ "David Blatherwick (Canada)". Biennale de Montreal 2002. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  13. ↑ Dharmarajah, Thana (October 31, 2008). "Ga ga for Gala Elora". Guelph Mercury. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  14. 1 2 David Blatherwick; James D. Campbell; James Patten; Robert McLaughlin Gallery; Art Gallery of Windsor (2008). Cheese, Worms and the Holes in Everything (illustrated ed.). Art Gallery of Windsor. ISBN 978-0-919837-77-5. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
  15. 1 2 3 4 Redfern, Christine (June 14, 2008). "Affecting and infecting space". The Gazette. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  16. ↑ Campbell, James D. "David Blatherwick", Canadian Art, Winter 2006
  17. ↑ Vancouver Art Gallery (1987). "Vanguard". 16. Vancouver Art Gallery.
  18. ↑ Canada Council, Canada Council for the Arts (1990). "C". C Magazine. C magazine. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
  19. ↑ Outsider Archive (2003). "Raw vision". Raw Vision.
  20. ↑ Alan Riding; Susan Mermelstein; Roberta Smith (2003). The New York Times: Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions 2004 (5, illustrated ed.). Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-6749-6.
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