Janice Gurney – CCCA Canadian Art Database

Janice Gurney

Janice Gurney is a Canadian contemporary artist. She graduated University of Manitoba in 1973 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degree and later received a Master of Visual Studies degree from University of Toronto in 2007 with a collaborative degree in Book History and Print Culture. She went on to get a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University in 2012. Gurney's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Canada. Notable collections which have featured her art include: the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and Museum London. In her work, Gurney explores abstract concepts of human connection, meditation, and isolation using post-modernist art, collage, and visual meditation as methods of inspiration. As a contemporary artist, Gurney's connection to postmodernism is evident through the mediums and forms she uses in her work. Postmodernism is described as a rejection of ideas and concepts associated with modernism. Artistic techniques that are associated with postmodernist art in particular include: collage, appropriation, performance art, reinvention/recycling of past styles or work in a contemporary context, simplification, bricolage, and the mixing of high art and low art. Many of these themes can be seen in Gurney's work as it is typically political in nature and does not follow a strict binary of thought.

Creator Id: 249
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Manitoba
Year of Birth: 1949
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: collage, mixed media, painting, performance, photography, text-based
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Work by Janice Gurney

For the Audience

Work ID: 50547

Measurements: 111.76 x 193.04 cm

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Date Made: 1986

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Screen

Work ID: 50548

Measurements: 97.79 x 363.22 cm

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Date Made: 1986

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Searching Black Miners for Hidden Diamonds

Work ID: 50549

Measurements: 152.4 x 624.84 cm

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Date Made: 1987

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

The Surface of Behaviour

Work ID: 50550

Measurements: 181.61 x 246.38 cm

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Date Made: 1988

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Name

Work ID: 50551

Measurements: 95.25 x 238.76 cm

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Date Made: 1989

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Plots and Themes

Work ID: 50552

Measurements: 124.46 x 165.1 cm

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Date Made: 1990

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

The Last Tasmanians / Badger, Manitoba

Work ID: 50553

Measurements: 292.1 x 299.72 cm

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Date Made: 1990

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

The Newspaper

Work ID: 50554

Measurements: 0.0696 x 0.2784 m

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Date Made: 1991

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Brief Window

Work ID: 50555

Measurements: 0.0696 x 0.4872 m

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Date Made: 1991

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Self-Consciousness

Work ID: 50556

Measurements: 111.76 x 259.08 cm

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Date Made: 1992

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Everything must go

Work ID: 50558

Measurements: 220.98 x 142.24 cm

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Date Made: 1994

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

A lovely article on colour

Work ID: 50557

Measurements: 69.215 x 187.96 cm

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Date Made: 1994

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Cancelled (The Surface of Behavior, 1988)

Work ID: 50561

Measurements: 181.61 x 246.38 cm

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Date Made: 1995

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Grasslands

Work ID: 50560

Measurements: 81.28 x 251.46 cm

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Date Made: 1995

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Probably March 1

Work ID: 50559

Measurements: 68.58 x 152.4 cm

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Date Made: 1995

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Swamped

Work ID: 50562

Measurements: 114.935 x 254 cm

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Date Made: 1998

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

(Didactic Panel)

Work ID: 50563

Measurements: 10.16 x 60.96 cm

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Date Made: 1999

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Past Self Portrait

Work ID: 50564

Measurements: 76.2 x 114.3 cm

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Date Made: 2000

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Portrait of A.A.

Work ID: 50565

Measurements: 81.28 x 144.78 cm

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Date Made: 2001

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Portrait of A.S. (with disk errors)

Work ID: 50566

Measurements: 76.2 x 152.4 cm

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Date Made: 2002

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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA