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==Early life== ==Early life==
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==Artistic career== ==Artistic career==

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Canadian artist (born 1950)
Barbara Astman
Barbara Astman in her studio
BornBarbara Anne Astman
(1950-07-12) July 12, 1950 (age 74)
Rochester, New York, U.S.
EducationRIT (School for American Craftsmen), OCA
AwardsOntario Arts Council, Canada Council
Websitewww.barbaraastman.com

Barbara Astman RCA (born July 12, 1950) is a Canadian artist who has recruited instant camera technology, colour xerography, and digital scanners to explore her inner self.

Early life

Astman was born in Rochester, New York, the second of three children of Bertha (née Meisel, a homemaker) and George Astman (an auto mechanic and salesman.) She received her associate degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Craftsmen in 1970. That year, she moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to study at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University,) and graduated with an associate degree (A.O.C.A.) in 1973. She joined the faculty of OCAD in 1975, served as Chair of Photography (2001-2002), and Professor in the Faculty of Art (2002-2021). She retired in 2021 as Professor Emerita.

Artistic career

Astman's practice is partly composed of public art installations in Canada and abroad, including an installation at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1987. One of her early commissions was a project for the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany consisting of a fritted glass tower wall.

Early career

In the 1970s, she began exploring Polaroid technology and Xerography as a vehicle for art making. She moved to Toronto in 1970 to attend OCAD. Wanting to explore the city she found inspiration in Kensington Market, Spadina Avenue and Queen Street West. Her first successful solo show was held in 1973, at Toronto's Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography. Two years later, the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada renamed the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa and now part of the National Gallery of Canada hosted her first museum show. Astman began the Colour Xerox Artist's Program at Visual Arts Ontario in 1977. She sat on the board of directors at the Art Gallery at Harbourfront (now called The Power Plant) from 1983 to 1985. Since then, other board positions have included: the City of Toronto, Public Art Commission; the Curatorial Team for the International WaterWorks Exhibition in 1988.

Her initial commercial venture was the creation of the album cover for the first Loverboy record for CBS Records.

Mid career

Liz Wylie curated Astman's mid-career retrospective, Barbara Astman: Person/Persona A 20 Year Survey Exhibition in 1995. It opened at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and then toured three other Canadian museums. The Art Gallery of Ontario reopened in 2008, after a year's redevelopment by architect Frank Gehry. Astman and AGO Curator of Canadian Art Georgiana Uhlyarik were chosen to co-curate an exhibit focusing on Joyce Wieland and early feminist practice.

Barbara Astman has been heavily inspired by stores, even creating her own as an art work: Dancing with Che: Enter Through the Gift Shop (2011–13). Che Guevara's face appears on mugs, plates, and other novelty goods, though none are for sale.

She also works with fabrics and in 2013 Astman worked with designer Jeremy Liang to create a line of limited edition silk scarves based on her Newspaper Series (2006-2008) for Jonathan and Olivia fashion boutique in Toronto.

Her artist's archives are held in the E.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario.

Awards

In 2000 she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy.

Public collections

Astman's work is held in the following permanent collections, among others:

Critical reception

The Clementine Suite

"...a celebration of the human spirit."

Dancing With Che

"...echoes across more than a century of technological innovation and evolution of the medium".
"Audacious, humorous, improbable."

Wonderland

"Intimate, personal, and quietly enthralling."

References

  1. Georgiana Uhlyarik, "Dear Canadian Art, I was thinking about you...". Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO. Art Gallery of Ontario and Goose Lane Editions, 2023.
  2. Enright, Robert. Border Crossings Issue #90, Vol. 23, No.1, May 2004, pp. 43-50
  3. ^ Allen, Karyn Elizabeth. "Article". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  4. "Faculty". www2.ocadu.ca. OCAD. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  5. Government of Canada http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/germany-allemagne/offices-bureaux/embassy_art_ambassade.aspx?lang=eng Archived 2013-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ guhlyarik. "Barbara Astman: A Movie For One". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  7. Murray, Joan; Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, Dundurn Press, 1999, pp168-170
  8. ^ "Barbara Astman". www2.ocadu.ca. OCAD. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  9. The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts "Royal Canadian Academy of Arts - Académie royale des arts du Canada". Archived from the original on 2010-08-04. Retrieved 2010-01-16.
  10. "Collection". agnes.queensu.ca. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  11. "Contemporary Collection". Art Gallery of Hamilton. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  12. "The Collection | Art Gallery of Ontario". Art Gallery of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  13. "Barbara Astman: personal persona : a 20-year survey | Art Gallery Collections". collections.burnabyartgallery.ca.
  14. Astman, Barbara. "Works in the Collection". rmg.minisisinc.com. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  15. "Collections". Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  16. "Collection". mcintoshgallery.ca. Mcintosh Gallery, London, Ontario. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  17. "Untitled #9 | All Works | the MFAH Collections".
  18. "Barbara Astman". www.gallery.ca.
  19. "Barbara Astman | Works | eMuseum | UofT Art Museum".
  20. "The Art of Light". 19 March 2020.
  21. "Collection". www.wag.ca. Winnipeg Art Gallery. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  22. Dault, Julia; National Post, Jan. 12, 2006
  23. Liss, David and Rubenstein, Bonnie, Exhibition Curators, Still Revolution: Suspended in Time, the Museum for Contemporary Canadian Art, May, 2009
  24. Wylie, Liz; Canadian Art, Fall 2003, Volume 20, No. 3, p. 139
  25. Whyte, Murray, Toronto Star, Wonderland Nov. 16, 2009. http://thestar.blogs.com/untitled/2009/11/barbara-astmans-wonderland-at-jane-corkin.html Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine.

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