Dyan Marie's has been an exhibiting visual artist since 1981. Recent photographically based images involve close readings of local environments to create forms that establish a reexamined sense of the day to day.
Solo
Exhibitions:
2004 Brilliantly and Everything Else, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2003 DIG IN Ideas Master Plan, community art project, exhibited at three locations in the at-risk Bloor/Dupont West neighbourhood www.digin.ca
April 2001 "Black Flowers", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Seeing
in the dark "Black flowers"
1999 "Subjected to Change: Armatures for Standing Up" Wynick/Tuck
Gallery Toronto, travel to Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, fall 99
"Subjected
to Change / Armatures For Standing Up" Teenage hockey players, established
businesswomen, retired construction workers - Dyan Marie’s digital/photobased
works on canvas build homes for them from the materials they touch.
‘This body of work proposes a series of houses, intended as monuments
referencing everyday activities. These activities and related behaviors
are framed by dramatically shifting expectations of what is appropriate.
The homes are reflective places, places to see into and out from. They
are sympathetic sites for constructing refreshed perspectives, armatures
for standing up.
Each building is assembled from images of objects touched by the intended
owner of the house. In Retired Construction Worker House, the images come
from the garden where he spends his retirement growing flowers and vegetables.
Teenage Hockey Player House is built from photographs of standard protective
equipment found in a hockey bag. House for Businesswoman shows the contents
collected in a purse and articles of office clothing.
1997 "Murmurs and Messages", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
"Murmurs
and Messages", series of 25, photo based, digitally developed images
of flowers, vines and plants seeded with a collection of single word poems.
"Murmurs and Messages is a group of close-up flower images primarily
photographed from the modest local gardens on my block in the Lansdowne/Dupont
neighborhood in Toronto. The photographs were scanned into a computer
where they were digitally close-cropped to force an intense presentation
of colour and view. The works were further pressed in and stretched open
to create a confused space intended to read both as too small and too
large simultaneously. Scattered over the surface of the flower images
are tiny, colored, single words which attempt to locate a reflective state
that is a middle ground. The words offer up a frame of mind, history or
time that is not involved with energy, ambition, action or will, but rests
somewhere between positions of young and old, high and low, passion and
passivity.
The images and text work together by balancing their straight-forward
face value while also embodying their opposition: the skewering of the
beauty ofC the text."
1996 "Learning to Count", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Learning
to Count is a series of works that presents ten phases/ideas that are
intended to represent the way issues surface in the mind. The work constructs
a framework to situate continuous shifting concerns in a context of considering
new ideas, remembering pass concerns and re-remembering pass concerns.
Concerns and ideas that may be explored and repeated as individuals, as
sequential generations and as endless history. These ten works proposed
a counting/accounting system developed as a circular progression from
one to ten.
One is represented by an image of lips pronouncing the word "one" but also appears as a cave of flesh, a dark opening, a mystery, another
beginning, another end.
Two primordial mounds, part mud, moss, flesh, being kneaded into or out
of form.
Three whirlwind shapes in the palm of my hand.
Four directions in an organization chart demonstrating planning for the
progression of cumulus clouds
Five muddy reflecting pools scraped out of an aerial view of Toronto
Six electric points of attention on a fragmented root system
Seven plantings of tree formations; planned as an earthwork, developed
as public gardens, and intended as a model to protect farmland from urban
encroachment.
Eight pressure points on the folded creases of the body.
Nine o four fragmented, filtered, visions of holding my children hands
Nine o five fragmented, filtered, visions of caring, cleaning and holding
my children while thinking about stories of Cambodian women who became
blind after witnessing great cruelty to their families by the Khmer Rouge.
Ten images of a child's lips sounding out the numbers one to ten. An endlessly
repeating primal system of teaching in terms of an individual, generationally
and historically.
1992 "Push/Pull", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1989 "Mud and Flesh", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1988 "Gap", Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1988 "Lodestone", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1986 "Tropism", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1983 "Swamp/Lust for Life", Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford,
Ontario
1982 "Serpentine", Gallery 76, Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1981 "Barrier", A Sculptural Situation," YYZ Gallery, Toronto
Selected
Group Exhibitions:
2005 Lakefront, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Times 2, a Contact exhibition, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000 “Physics: Ideas for Public Space”, DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto
2000, “Dark Places”, Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Curated
by Gary Micheal Dault, Toronto
2000, “Montreal/Toronto Art”, curated by PADAC, exhibited in
Toronto and Montreal
2000 “ArchiTexture”, Archive Inc, Gary Micheal Dault, Toronto
2000 “Time”, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2000 "Informal Ideas 00.3 (Play)", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario
1999 "Art 1999 Chicago", Wynick/Tuck Gallery at Art 1999 Chicago,
Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1999 "The Hand" Powerplant Gallery, Toronto Harbourfront, Toronto
1999 "Informal Ideas, 99.9", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1999 "City of Toronto: Dundas Square Competition", Toronto City
Hall, Toronto
1998 "The Word", Art Gallery of North York, North York
1998 "Layers", Chicago International Art fair, Chicago, USA
1997 "The photographic Immaterial Of the Fantastic and the Grotesque",
The Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada, Canadian Cultural
Center, Paris, France
1997 "List at ARCO", ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1996 "The Electronic City", The Design Center, Toronto
1996 "Ten", Cold City Tenth Anniversary, Mercer Union & Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1996 "The Middle Show", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1996 "List", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1995 "Gallery Artist", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1995 "Tropism/an earthwork", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1995 "Home" Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1994 "Dreaming of You", Garnet Press, Toronto
1994 "CCG Member's Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1994 "Mediatrics", CBC Building, Toronto
1993 "Cold City Inaugural Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1993 "Daley, Marie, Yanover", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1993 "Art on the Edge", York Quay Gallery, Toronto
1992 "Daley, Marie, Legarra", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1992 "Parts", Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, France and Galeria
Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain
1992 "Beau", Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
and Canadian Cultural Center, Paris
1991 "Surrounding Identity", The Gallery, Scarborough Campus,
University of Toronto
1991 "Artists' Working Research", The Print and Drawing Gallery,
Toronto
1990 "Recent Work", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1990 "Lansdowne/Rideau Public Art Exhibition", City Hall, and
CHP Heritage Center, Toronto
1990 "Photographic Work", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1989 "Scaled to the Body", The Art Gallery of Peterborough,
Peterborough
1989 "Body is a Loaded Word", Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto
1989 "Cold City: New Work Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1989 "Faculty & Student Exhibition", Dundas Valley Art School,
Dundas
1989 "13 Works", Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
1988 "Little Mysteries", Art Gallery of the University of Lethbridge,
Alberta
1988 "International Gallery Invitational", New York, New York
1987 "Group Show", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1987 "Temporal Icons", ARC & Mercer Union, Toronto
1986 "Quick Draw", Gallery 76, Toronto
1986 "Inaugural Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1985 "18th Sao Paulo Biennial", Sao Paulo, Brazil
1984 "The New City of Sculpture", Mercer Union/YYZ, Toronto
1984 "80/1/2/3/4 Toronto", Mercer Union, Toronto (Exhibition
traveled to Open Space Gallery, Victoria and Contemporary Art Gallery,
Vancouver)
1984 "On The Wall", Glendon Art Gallery, Toronto
1983 "Chromaliving", Chromazone at Harridges, Toronto
1983 "Locations National - Lust For Life/Swamp", Mercer Union,
Toronto; installation at C.N. Tower Walkway; exhibition maquette at Mercer
Union, Toronto; Open Space, Victoria, Off Center Center, Calgary; Optica,
Montreal; Eye Level Halifax
1983 "Critics' Choice", Art Rental Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto
1983 "Storefronting", Women's Cultural Building, Toronto
1983 "Ideas in Motion", VAV GAllery, Concordia University, Montreal,
"Chromazone/New Year", Chromazone Gallery, Toronto
1982 "Monumenta", YYZ, Toronto
1981 "New Faces", Glendon Art Gallery, Toronto
Public
Art Commissions:
• "Oshawa
General Hospital", Oshawa, “Meadows” Photobased images
for the Mother and Child Lobby and Ward. 2001
• Royal York Hotel: Digital-bases large-scale images on canvas 2001
• GTAA, Lester B. Pearson International Airport”, Baggage Claim
Hall, short list. 2000
• "The Dundas Square", International competition for the
City of Toronto, Toronto, Winning proposal for artworks located at Young
and Dundas St., one block site area to be designed as a major public square.
Upon winning the competition the art agreement was withdrawn. Budget:
$2,500,000, 1998/9.
• "Art and Healing at Oshawa General Hospital", Oshawa,
Ontario, 21 patients rooms, corridors and lobby, 1998
• "Public Art For Whitby Phyiatric Hospital", Whitby Phyiatric
Hospital, Finalist, 1995
• "Public Art Ideas Competition for Toronto's Inner Harbour",
City of Toronto, Honorable Mention, Budget: $750,000,1993
• "Lansdowne/Rideau Underpass Pubic Art Commission", Commissioned
from the City of Toronto, Budget: $85,000, 1993
• "Swamp:Lust for Life", CN Lands, CN, Temporary Walkway,
1983
Public ART Commissions:
Reviews:
The
Globe and Mail, "Dyan Marie and James Lahey at Wynick/Tuck Gallery,
Gary Micheal Dault, May 8, 1999
The Globe and Mail, "Calm eye in urban storm", Pamela Young,
January 2, 1999
The Globe and Mail, "Colour-saturated photography exhibit says it
with flowers", Gillian McKay Sept.13, 1997
Parachute Magazine, "The photographic Immaterial Of the Fantastic
and the Grotesque", Vivicent Lavoie
The Globe and Mail, "Artist achieves digital depth", John B
Mays, May 29,1996
The Toronto Star, "Sweet Marie", Christopher Hume, May 9, 1996
Globe and Mail, "These Lists Can't Be Missed", John Bently Mays,
Feb. 10, 1996
Globe and Mail, "Public Art", John Bently Mays, April 1, 1995
Canadian Art, "Unsuspecting urban", Sarah Milroy, Fall 1993,
Volume 10, Number 3
The Toronto Star, "Brovo to city for artsy tunnel", Christopher
Hume, Sept. 4, 1993
The Sun, "Open to the Public", Lisa Balford Bowen, August 15,
1993
The Globe and Mail, "Daley, Marie, Lagarra", Kate Taylor, Nov.,
1992
The Globe and Mail, "Dyan Marie", Kate Taylor, Feb. 14, 1992
The Globe and Mail, "Two underpasses in Toronto win awards for good
design", March 26, 1990
The Globe and Mail, "Seeking a Fresh Take on the Body", Sept.
4, 1989
The Globe and Mail, "Summer Exhibitions", John Bently Mays,
July 9, 1988
The Globe and Mail, "Hot stuff at Cold City", John Bently Mays,
Feb. 6, 1988
Now Magazine, "Temporal Icons", Jane Perdue, March, 1987
The Globe and Mail, "Gems amid the ruins of Queen St. scene.",
John B. Mays, Mar. 14, 1987.
Vanguard, "Dyan Marie", Jennifer Oille Sinclair, Feb./March,
1987
The Globe and Mail, "Tropism", John Bently Mays, October 30,1986
The Toronto Star, "Hot and Cold", Christopher Hume, Sept. 5,
1986
The Globe and Mail, "New set of rules", Robert Evertt-Green,
Sept. 4,1986
Now Magazine, "Inaugural Exhibition", Jane Perdue, Aug. 21,
1986
Artnews, "Alternatives to the Alternative Gallery", Fall, 1986
C Magazine, "Free at Last, Toronto Painting & Sculpture",
Donald Kuspit, Winter 1985
Vanguard, "New City of Sculpture", Goldie Rans, Nov., 1984
The Globe & Mail, "The flowering of a creative discontent",
John Bentley Mays, Sat. March 17, 1984
Vanguard, "Chromazone/New Year", Jennifer Oille, May 1983
The Toronto Star, "January doldrums broken by group show", Christopher
Hume, Jan. 22,1983
Catalogues from exhibitions:
“Dark Places”, Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Gary Micheal
Dault, Toronto, 2000
"Subjected To Change", Margaret Dryden, 1999
"Art with Heart", Casey House , 1997, 1998, 1999
"The photographic Immaterial Of the Fantastic and the Grotesque",
Catherine Bedard and Martha Langfort, 1996
"Decalog, YYZ", Barbara Fisher/YYZ Gallery, 1993
"Beau" Martha Langford, 1992
"Parts", Jeffery Swartz, 1991
"Surrounding Identity", Melanie Zeldman, 1991
"Scaled to the Body", Illi-Marie Tamplin, 1989
"Lodestone", Cold City Gallery, 1988
"Temporal Icons", Jerry McGrath, 1986
"18th Sao Paulo Biennial", Richard Rhodes, 1985
"New City of Sculpture", Bruce Grenville, C Magazine, 1984
"Artists and Their Works", Art Gallery of Ontario, 1984
"Chromaliving", Chromazone, 1983
"Locations/National", Steve Pozel, Mercer Union, 1983
Published Works:
C Magazine, "Imagining Architecture / Mark Gomes, Karl Blossfeldt
and Noel Harding"
article, Issue 55, 1997
C Magazine, "First Words", artist project Winter 1994
M5V Magazine, "Push/Pull", artists project, 1991
Awards:
1988,
99 Canada Council, B Grant
1988, 92 Canada Council, Travel Grant
1984, 85, 86, 87 Canada Council, Short Term Grant
1981, 82, 91, 94 Canada Council, Project Cost Grant
1982, 86, 88, 92 Ontario Arts Council, Project Cost
1980-84, 86, 87, 92 Ontario Arts Council, Material Assistance Grants
Collections:
CIBC
Mellon, Toronto
Canadian
Museum of Photography, Ottawa
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belguim
University of Leithbridge Gallery, Leithbribge, Alberta
Business Development Bank of Canada
Fidelity Investments
Lenczne, Slaght, Royse, Smith, Griffen
Morneau, Sobeco, Cooper & Lybrand
Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt, Toronto, Ontario
Tory, Tory DesLauriers and Binnington, Toronto, Ontario
Lakeridge Health Corporation, Oshawa
Various Corporate and private collections
Education:
Graduate
of Ontario College of Art, 1974-1977
University of Guelph, taught advanced sculpture, 1988
Dundas Valley School of Art, taught second year sculpture, 1989
Lectured at Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, University of Guelph, Guelph,
Artspeak,Vancouver, Ontario College of Art, Toronto and Ontario College
of Art, New York campuses, New York City, and The Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto
Relevant
Experience:
Wynick/Tuck
Gallery: Her
work has been represented by Wynick/Tuck Gallery since 1995.
Cold
City Gallery: As
the founder of Cold City Gallery, she developed a model for a sustainable
visual art space that functioned as a commercial co-operative. Cold City
operated for 13 year and proved itself by supporting and exhibiting many
of Canada's most important artists. Cold City exhibits have been featured
in hundreds of newspaper, radio and magazine reviews over the years. Original
members invited by Dyan Marie to form the founding membership include
Gary Neil Kennedy, Ian Wallace, Brian Scott, Eldon Garnet, Al McWilliams,
Peter Bowyer, Susan Schell, Shirley Yanover, Carolynn White, Jann Poldass,
Republic and Loretta Yarlow was invited as Cold City’s first gallery
director. Steering committee member 1986 - 1991 exhibiting member 1986
- 1995.
C
Magazine: Co-founder,
contributing editor and art director for C Magazine. This Canadian based
international art magazine was established to cover the dynamic work developing
in Queen Street West area of Toronto and in Canada in general in the 1980s.
C expanded to cover international art. Dyan Marie’s editorial contribution
focused on projects that offered a way for artist to use the magazine
as an art medium. 1984 - 1987/89
Whirlwind
Lectures,
a lecture series bringing together corporate and cultural speakers.
ARTATWORK:
Founder and director of an artist organization committed to the development
of the cultural environment. Projects include: initiated and facilitated
a series of Art Programs for health care facilities that integrated art
into the Hospital environment. 1999 - 2001
More
information see wwwARTATWORKPROJECTS.com
