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Stephen Andrews: Likeness

2001 / ISBN 0-88865-620-3
38 pages, 6 colour inserts, paperback in plastic sleeve

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Exhibition catalogue from Stephen Andrews: Likeness at the Belkin (23 March—31 May 2001) with texts by Scott Watson and Annette Hurtig. Toronto artist Stephen Andrews’s treatment of portraiture—as a form of mimesis and a way of displaying what is hidden or repressed—renews the genre’s intrigue. Guest curated by Annette Hurtig in conjunction with the Art Gallery of Windsor, Likeness features recent work as well as encaustic drawings and bookworks from the late 1980s and 1990s. Included in the exhibition is Facsimile (1991-93), a work in four parts comprised of 147 portraits, etched in graphite and oil on beeswax, of people lost to HIV-related illnesses. The portraits were based on facsimile transmissions of pictures from the “Proud Lives” memorial columns of Xtra magazine. These elegant and lyrical works are part of an ongoing meditation on appearance, reality, memory, time, love, intimacy and representation.

  • Stephen Andrews

    Artist

    The work of Stephen Andrews (Canadian, b. 1956) deals with memory, identity, technology and their representations in various media including photography, drawing, animation, painting and ceramics. Over the last twenty five years he has exhibited his work across Canada, the US, Brazil, Scotland, France, Italy and Japan, including at POV, a fifteen-year survey at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2015). He is represented in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Belkin Art Gallery, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, the Schwartz Collection, Harvard amongst many others, and corporate art collections including Torys (Toronto), Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt (Toronto), the Royal Bank of Canada, National Bank of Canada, TD Canada Trust and the Bank of Montreal. Andrews is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2019).

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  • Annette Hurtig

    Curator, Writer
  • Scott Watson

    Writer

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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  • Exhibition

    23 March 2001 – 13 May 2001

    Stephen Andrews: Likeness

    Toronto artist Stephen Andrews’ treatment of portraiture—as a form of mimesis and a way of displaying what is hidden or repressed—renews the genre’s intrigue. This exhibition features recent work as well as encaustic drawings and bookworks from the late 1980s and 1990s. Included in the exhibition is Facsimile (1991-93), a work in four parts comprised of 147 portraits, etched in graphite and oil on beeswax, of people lost to HIV-related illnesses. The portraits were based on facsimile transmissions of pictures from the “Proud Lives” memorial columns of Xtra magazine. These elegant and lyrical works are part of an ongoing meditation on appearance, reality, memory, time, love, intimacy and representation.

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