Warren Quigley’s work manifests our perceptions of the unseen in relation to impending disaster. Warren Quigley has exhibited across Canada, the U.S., China, and in France, Brazil, and Japan, including: (in Canada) at Toronto Nuit Blanche, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Harbourfront Centre, Textile Museum of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Koffler Gallery, Mercer Union (with Millie Chen), Sound Symposium, St. John’s, Newfoundland (with Millie Chen); (in U.S.A.) Canalside, Buffalo, Beyond/In Western New York at Western New York Book Arts Collective and Albright-Knox Art Gallery Bookstore, Big Orbit Gallery, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit; (in China) Where Where Art Space, Beijing (with Millie Chen), Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai, Tank Loft Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Shijiazhuang; (in France) Wharf Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, France, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris (with Millie Chen); (in Brazil) FILE-Rio 2007: the Electronic Language International Festival, Telemar Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (with PED collective); (in Japan) Gallery Lunami, Tokyo, Museum of Art, Yamanashi Prefectural. Quigley has realized a number of permanent public art commissions, including for the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission, and his work is in private and public collections in Canada, the U.S.A. and Europe. He has taught in the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo, SUNY and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China. Quigley is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto.

Creator Id: 495
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, sculpture

Don Proch is a multimedia artist known for complex installations, masks, and silkscreen prints. His work is centered in his imaginings of the Canadian Prairies combined with references to the Asessippi Valley, his life there and with global concerns of climate change. He took art at the University of Manitoba where Ivan Eyre who taught him basic drawing was of particular importance to him and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Education from the university in 1966. He taught art in high school from 1967 to 1970, then in 1970 won a purchase award from the Winnipeg Art Gallery for Asessippi Tread (1970, Winnipeg Art Gallery), which he called a silverpoint drawing but is three-dimensional and composed of graphite, fibreglass, wood and steel. He first showed at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in the Twelfth Winnipeg Biennial in 1970. In 1972 the Gallery held a solo exhibition of his work entitled The Legend of Asessippi: Space Drawings by the Ophtalmia Co. of Inglis, Manitoba (1972). To complete this project, he enlisted what he called the Ophtalmia Company of Inglis, a team of artists, friends and relatives for help. They became known as the Ophthamalia Company of Inglis (his hometown). The original group included his father Dymetro (shop foreman), William H. Lobchuk (printer and director of The Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop), Thomas Melnick (sander/finisher), Steve Chachula (welder), Bertie Duncan (bird sculptor). Others joined including Doug Proch, artist Kelly Clark, Glen Tinley, Ernest Mayer, Gord Bonnell and Patrice. Through his work which includes silkscreen prints made at the Grand Canadian Western Screen Shop, Proch has imagined a characteristic image of the prairies but added a perception of the environment and climate change. His installation-sculpture and masks often have a moulded fibreglass structure on which he worked with silverpoint, graphic and coloured pencil, and to which he added found objects from his environment. He also has created art homages to Canadian people, events and places, such as Jackson Beardy who, for five years (1979-1984) had the studio above his. For the first 20 years of his career he worked in black and white, then he began incorporating more colour, using coloured pencils to create landscapes. His 2021 Asessippi Chrome exhibition captured each stage of that development.

Creator Id: 490
Year of Birth: 1944
City: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: commission, installation, printmaking, sculpture

Don Proch is a multimedia artist known for complex installations, masks, and silkscreen prints. His work is centered in his imaginings of the Canadian Prairies combined with references to the Asessippi Valley, his life there and with global concerns of climate change. He took art at the University of Manitoba where Ivan Eyre who taught him basic drawing was of particular importance to him and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Education from the university in 1966. He taught art in high school from 1967 to 1970, then in 1970 won a purchase award from the Winnipeg Art Gallery for Asessippi Tread (1970, Winnipeg Art Gallery), which he called a silverpoint drawing but is three-dimensional and composed of graphite, fibreglass, wood and steel. He first showed at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in the Twelfth Winnipeg Biennial in 1970. In 1972 the Gallery held a solo exhibition of his work entitled The Legend of Asessippi: Space Drawings by the Ophtalmia Co. of Inglis, Manitoba (1972). To complete this project, he enlisted what he called the Ophtalmia Company of Inglis, a team of artists, friends and relatives for help. They became known as the Ophthamalia Company of Inglis (his hometown). The original group included his father Dymetro (shop foreman), William H. Lobchuk (printer and director of The Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop), Thomas Melnick (sander/finisher), Steve Chachula (welder), Bertie Duncan (bird sculptor). Others joined including Doug Proch, artist Kelly Clark, Glen Tinley, Ernest Mayer, Gord Bonnell and Patrice. Through his work which includes silkscreen prints made at the Grand Canadian Western Screen Shop, Proch has imagined a characteristic image of the prairies but added a perception of the environment and climate change. His installation-sculpture and masks often have a moulded fibreglass structure on which he worked with silverpoint, graphic and coloured pencil, and to which he added found objects from his environment. He also has created art homages to Canadian people, events and places, such as Jackson Beardy who, for five years (1979-1984) had the studio above his. For the first 20 years of his career he worked in black and white, then he began incorporating more colour, using coloured pencils to create landscapes. His 2021 Asessippi Chrome exhibition captured each stage of that development.

Creator Id: 490
Year of Birth: 1944
City: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: commission, installation, printmaking, sculpture

Richard Purdy studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, then pursued a Master’s in Arts at the Villa Schifanoia Badia Fiesolana in Florence and a Doctorate’s in the studies and practices of art at UQAM in 2000. He also teaches visual art and art history in the UQTR’s Département des arts while directing research projects. He has published more than twenty papers. In 1991, Richard Purdy founded Les Industries Perdues. The collective created 19 public art projects, including pieces for the United Nations, Quebec City, the STCUM, Cirque du Soleil, Télé-Québec, Ahuntsic Cégep, the Théatre du Nouveau Monde, the Carbone 14’s Usine ”C” and the place Gérard-Godin in front of the Mont-Royal metro station in Montreal. The artist participated in over a hundred solo or collective exhibits in France, Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Australia and of course in Quebec and Canada. In 2010, he showcased his work at the Espace Shawinigan, an exhibit which regrouped four very large installations. Richard Purdy does as much performance art, paintings, installation as sculpture and works with researchers in other disciplines. Interdisciplinary work is important to him because it presents a subject in many different points of view. This artist loves to surprise his public and plays on ambiguity and illusions. Purdy also subverts systems that melt reality because, as he put it, ”my goal is not to create the new, but to discover what has been forgotten.” He also explored on many occasions the theme of stupa, particularly in the performing arts and dance. He believes that one must experience an object in order to understand its fundamental meaning.

Creator Id: 494
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Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1953
City: Ste-Agathe-des-Monts
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: commission, installation, painting, public art, sculpture