Renée Van Halm
January 18, 2020 - February 15, 2020
Renée Van Halm’s extensive knowledge of architectural forms stemming from years of study and travel have led to the development of a unique language relating to the social dimension of architecture, design, and colour. Traditional views of space are dematerialized and reimagined in synthesis with weavings, shreds of origami paper, and diminutive modernist forms. The works on canvas in this exhibition are based on the works of female artists from the 1920s, including painters such as Sonia Delaunay and Varvara Stepanova, textile artists Anni Albers and Marion Dorn, and Bauhaus artists and educators Otti Berger and Gunta Stölzl. Using experimental motifs and colour relationships developed by these artists, Van Halm reintegrates these unconventional patterns within a two- dimensional painting language that envelops the viewer, bringing out obvious and subtle associations between colour and forms.
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Installation View

2020

Glow

2017

Gouache on Paper

  • Image size: 13 3/4” x 10 1/4”Framed size: 20 3/4” x 16 3/4”

Weave GS MD

2019

Gouache on Paper

  • Image size: 13” x 9 3/4”Framed size: 20 3/4” x 16 3/4”

Head Long I

2018

Gouache on Paper

  • Image size: 13” x 9 1/2”Framed size: 20 3/4” x 16 3/4”

Skirting

2018

Gouache on paper

  • Image size: 13 1/2” x 10”Framed size: 20 3/4” x 16 3/4”

Crossover (AA)

2019

Acrylic on Canvas

  • 48" x 60"

Slippage (VS-SD-AA)

2019

Acrylic on Canvas

  • 48" x 60"

Double Take (GS-LB)

2019

Acrylic on Canvas

  • 72" x 60"

Headlines (GS-AA)

2019

Acrylic on Canvas

  • 36" x 46"

Both Sides II (GS-SD)

2019

Acrylic on Canvas

  • 46" x 36"

Cover Up (SD-GS)

2019

Acrylic on Canvas

  • 46" x 36"

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Renée Van Halm

Renée Van Halm

Renée Van Halm has been a significant figure in Canadian art for over forty years, both as a practicing artist and as an arts educator. In the early part of her career, Van Halm was interested in creating forms that were hybrids of many media, not purely painting, sculpture, or architecture. The evolution of her subject and medium has led her to consider the many forms of visual presentation in our culture. Van Halm draws her images from a variety of sources: mainstream fashion, architecture and decor magazines, and more recently the work of 1920s Bauhaus artists and weavers, in considering the ways in which architectural space governs contemporary human experience.

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A Boat Made of Ocean

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Natural Disorder

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