Art Gallery of Ontario Announces Toronto-Based Artist Kristan Horton Wins $50,000 Grange Prize

TORONTO.- After a forty-day public vote, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and Aeroplan announced that Toronto-based artist Kristan Horton is the winner of The Grange Prize 2010. The $50,000 prize is Canada’s largest photography prize, also granting $5,000 to each of the runners-up, and is the only major Canadian art prize whose winner is chosen by the public. “Photography captures our imaginations and transcends borders,” says Matthew Teitelbaum, the Michael and Sonja Koerner director, and CEO, Art Gallery of [...]

Canadian Museum Mounts Major Angela Grauerholz Exhibition

OTTAWA.- Born in Germany, artist Angela Grauerholz has been living in Montreal since the mid-1970s. She has long been interested in feminism, conceptual art, and a range of theoretical perspectives on photography, influences that have shaped her art over the last 25 years. The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography is mounting a major exhibition comprised of some 40 works created over the course of her career. Presented by Pratt & Whitney Canada at the NGC, Angela Grauerholz: The inexhaustible image [...]

Canadian and U.S. Photographers Compete for 2010 Grange Prize

TORONTO.- Four leading-edge photographers, two Canadian and two American, will have the opportunity to win the $50,000 Grange Prize, presented by Aeroplan and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Each year, The Grange Prize partners with one international art institution in an effort to recognize the best in Canadian and international photography — and 2010’s partner is the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago. A joint panel of curatorial experts will meet to review the work of photographic [...]

Photographs at Auburn University Chronicle Destroyed Modernist Homes

AUBURN, AL.- Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art opens a new exhibition of photographs by Chris Mottalini entitled After You Left, They Took It Apart: Demolished Paul Rudolph Homes. The exhibition, on view Feb. 6 through April 17, features a series of haunting images that record the demise of three abandoned houses designed by world-renowned architect Paul Rudolph, who earned his Bachelor’s degree at Auburn University. Rudolph, who died in 1997, was one of the 20th century’s most iconoclastic [...]