The 80s Image

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Barbara Astman, "Untitled, from the Red Series," 1980

Ektacolor print on paper mounted on masonite. 122.1 x 127.2 cm. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

The 80s Image  kicks off as part of Culture Days Manitoba and Nuit Blanche Winnipeg celebrations at the WAG on September 29. 

All galleries will be free from 11am to 5pm for national Culture Days. The Gallery will re-open from 6pm to 4am for Nuit Blanche Winnipeg, a free, all-night celebration of contemporary art.

If "video killed the radio star" in 1980, what impact did it have on traditional art media? The 80s Image explores the curious resiliency of painting and still-photography throughout the decade, and artists' responsiveness to the rapidly expanding media landscape-video, television, cinema, satellite and computer imagery, and billboard advertising. In this exhibition, you'll see approximately 50 works by Canadian artists whose paintings and photographs helped to define the 1980s, including Peter Doig, Wanda Koop, Ken Lum, General Idea, Eleanor Bond, and many more.