[ Susan Gold ]

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BIO:

Susan Gold lives and works in Windsor, Ontario and is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Windsor School of Visual Arts.

Her international solo exhibitions since 1983 include: Germany, England, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. A 2003-05 solo exhibition, titled, Trophy Room, toured public galleries across Canada. Recent work is included in the summer group exhibition, MIX, at Sarah Beveridge Contemporary Art Gallery in Barrie, Ontario.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

The Trophy Room Project continues to explore the unstable interface of nature and culture. The paintings and works on paper contain images from natural history collections and natural forms found in historic decorative prototypes. The Trophy Room canvasses are stretched directly on the studio wall. The paintings hang, unframed, like tapestries, referencing multiple histories, including the history of oil painting and the history of western science. The works on paper are framed to mimic the shallow cases of the natural history museum.

The project began with the artist tracking the legacy of the 18th century Swedish botanist "Carolus Linnaeus". Linnaeus is well-known for developing the binomial system of classification. His great project to name, systematize, and quantify all of nature, has formed the basis of modern scientific practice. This seminal transition in the history of science is represented in museum displays and preserved domestic spaces. Each collection and space has its own imbedded views of the natural world.

The artist's current work continues to focus on locating the space and place of domestic and scientific display.

 

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*NOTE: Images 1, 5, 6, 8, 10 are currently on display in the group exhibition "MIX" at the Sarah Beveridge Contemporary Art Gallery in Barrie, Ontario.