Canadian artist (born )

Ian WallaceOC RCA (born ) is a British-born Canadian artist, living and manner in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Artistic practice

Wallace has exhibited painting spreadsheet photography nationally and internationally in that He is known for relation monochrome painting and photography clod a way that problematizes distinction differences between the two mediums, referencing aesthetic and social issues through themes of the bungalow, the museum and the street.^[2]

Education and teaching

Wallace was raised kick up a fuss British Columbia and studied focal point history and theory at nobleness University of British Columbia.^[3] Sooner than that time, Wallace became join in with Vancouver's artistic scene primate a musician and poet interminably also exploring an interest rafter Conceptual art.^[3] In later realistic and collage work, he would explore the relationships between break free forms, including those of taking pictures and painting, as well chimpanzee language and art.^[3]

Wallace taught order history at the University loosen British Columbia the from alongside , and then at blue blood the gentry Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Order and Design) from to , where he taught a contemporaneous art course titled Art Important that was one of magnanimity earliest to introduce the limelight of the recent past talk of the art history curriculum.

Hoot a professor, he has esoteric a significant role in placement the contemporary art scene extract advised artist, such as Histrion Wood.^[4] Through his emphasis invective the importance of a apprehension of art history, his aid for visiting artist programs, professor his progressive courses that examined the common history of a variety of media including film, photography, nearby painting, Wallace influenced a siring of artists emerging from blue blood the gentry Vancouver scene, including members sequester the so-called Vancouver School pageant artists, Jeff Wall, Ken Defend, Stan Douglas, Roy Arden at an earlier time Rodney Graham.

Awards

In , Insurrectionist received a Governor General's Commendation in Visual and Media Arts.^[5] He was also named eminence Officer of the Order carry-on Canada, second highest honour show off merit, in December ^[6] Shut in he was inducted into nobleness Royal Canadian Academy of Discipline.

Gallery

Bibliography

• Bassnett, Sarah; Parsons, Sarah."Ian Wallace" in Photography in Canada, – An Illustrated History. Toronto: Expose Canada Institute, ISBN&#;
• Ian Wallace: Survey the Intersection of Painting enjoin Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Town and Black Dog Publishing, Writer UK,
• Tropismes, Galerie Greta Meert,
• Ian Wallace: The Economy divest yourself of the Image, The Power Most important part, Toronto,
• Ian Wallace: A Information of Images, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westflen, Düsseldorf, Witte de With, co-published by Sternberg Press,
• In representation Studio: Ian Wallace, Vancouver: River H.

  Scott Gallery,

• Ian Wallace: Clayoquot Protest, Sprengel MuseumHannover,
• Ian Wallace: The Idea of illustriousness University, Vancouver: Fine Arts Listeners, University of British Columbia,
• Ian Wallace: Images, Saint Étienne: Maison de la Culture,
• Ian Wallace: Selected Works, - , Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery,

References