ALEX COLVILLE - Selected Works Directly from the Studio of Alex Colville
MARCH 1 - 29, 2014
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2014
On Saturday, March 1st, Mira Godard Gallery is pleased to open an exhibition of selected drawings directly from the studio of ALEX COLVILLE.
ALEX COLVILLE has had a decades-long relationship and exhibition history with Mira Godard Gallery and this is our gallery’s first Colville show since his death on July 16, 2013. A number of the works, completed between 1947 and 2008, will be exhibited for the first time.
ALEX COLVILLE was born in Toronto in 1920 and moved to Nova Scotia in 1929. From 1938 to 1942, Colville attended Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Immediately after completing university in 1942, Colville entered the Canadian army and was appointed an official war artist, travelling overseas in 1944.
Over his long career, Colville received several honorary degrees and awards including: Companion of the Order of Canada, 1982; Governor General’s Visual and Media Arts Award, 2003 and Member of the Order of Nova Scotia, 2003. Major travelling retrospectives of his work were held at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1983, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1994, the National Gallery of Canada in 2000 and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2003.
ALEX COLVILLE’s paintings, drawings and serigraphs have been exhibited extensively across North America, Europe and Asia and his work is found in major museum, corporate and private collections around the world, including: Art Gallery of Hamilton; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; Canadian War Museum, Ottawa; Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée National D’Art Moderne, Paris; Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick and Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany.
In August 2014, the Art Gallery of Ontario will be exhibiting a major ALEX COLVILLE exhibition of 100 paintings, drawings and serigraphs. Curated by Andrew Hunter, the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Curator of Canadian Art, the exhibition will explore Colville's enduring influence and legacy.
