One New Work Ron Moppett: Do You Remember/Snow & Stars
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Glenbow Museum 130 9 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3
Ron Moppett, "Star Trail," 2018
mixed media
One New Work
Ron Moppett: Do You Remember/Snow & Stars
Organized by Glenbow; Curated by Nancy Tousley.
The 11th installment of award-winning curator Nancy Tousley’s One New Work series turns its attentionto one of the true pioneers of Calgary’s contemporary art scene, Ron Moppett.
A Calgary-based artist of national stature, Moppett has also been an influential teacher, curator and gallery director. His art is distinguished by the incorporation of signs and symbols which denote personal experience paired with explorations of colour, texture and narrative devices.
“Ultimately, my work is about being an author, an image builder and, at the same time, aviewer/reader/enthusiast of art and its many histories,” Moppett once said of his practice.
This installment of One New Work — Ron Moppett: Do You Remember/Snow & Stars — will showcase this senior Calgary artist’s work with a wrap-around painting, which includes new, recent and older work and a mixed-media sculpture.
About Ron Moppett
Since 1966, Ron Moppett’s work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Canadaand abroad. Moppett was born in England in 1945, immigrating to Canada with his family in 1957. He graduated with honours from the Alberta college of Art and Design in 1967 and also attended the Intituto de Allende in San Miguel Allende, Mexico. In 1997 he won the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, one of the largest national awards given to visual artists in Canada, and in 2005 he received the Alberta Centennial Medal for his contributions to the arts in Alberta. He is considered to be a leader in research into the field of visual arts. Moppett was curator of the Alberta College of Art Gallery and the Director/Curator of the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at ACAD from 1988 to 2006. He taught painting, drawing and design for many years at the Alberta College of Art, the University of Calgary and the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design.