Curatorial Talk: Sandra Meigs: Sublime Rage

Black Willow. Sun Melt, 2021, gouache on paper, 38.1 x 28.6 cm, Courtesy of Susan Hobbs Gallery. © Sandra Meigs

May 20, 2023 • 11:30 am
Free with Gallery admission. Please RSVP to reserve your seat.
Location: The McMichael Canadian Art Collection
10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg, ON, Canada

Join contemporary artist Sandra Meigs, guest curator Jessica Bradley and McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy for a conversation exploring Meigs’ recent series of paintings created during her pandemic retreats in the woods of Algonquin Park.

Speakers: Sarah Milroy, Jessica Bradley and artist Sandra Meigs

Sublime Rage

Spruce, Bat Lake, 2021, gouache on paper,15” X 11.25”, © Sandra Meig

May 20 to November 19, 2023
$7 (Free for Members)
Location: The McMichael Canadian Art Collection
10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg, ON, Canada

For her exhibition at the McMichael, leading contemporary Canadian artist Sandra Meigs takes inspiration from the wilds of Ontario. Over the course of the various pandemic lockdowns, Meigs retreated from her home in Dundas, Ontario to the woods of Algonquin Park and Lake Calabogie. Compelled by this time in nature, Meigs created a series of vibrant and penetrating gouache studies, works that recall the legacies of such notable women modernists as Emily Carr and Georgia O’Keeffe. Many of these reflect the artist’s concerns regarding climate change and species loss, observed at first hand. Several of Meigs’ electrifying paintings will be blown up and printed on canvas banners suspended from the ceiling, creating a forest of fierce painterly gesture and vibrant colour. Guest curated by Jessica Bradley.

Book Launch, Reading + The Warblers exhibition

The Way Between Things book covers and sample spreads

Book Launch, Reading + The Warblers exhibition

April 2, 2022 from 12–4pm
Viviane Art
1114 11th Street SW, Calgary, AB T2R 1P1

Meet artist Sandra Meigs and musician/composer Christopher Butterfield in the gallery on Saturday, 02 April from 12-4pm.

In addition, there will be a brief reading by Sandra and question period about her book at 12pm (noon), followed by a book signing. No rsvp required.

In partnership with our Inglewood #yyc neighbour, The Next Page, copies of Sandra's book will be available for purchase during the event.