Boundless Questions
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Through their distinctive vision and creative processes, artists can carve out a space to ask the most difficult questions and explore our deepest fears.
The anxiety of facing death and the unknown are at the core of human experience, leaving profound marks on the ways in which we construct our reality and shape society, politics and culture. In a conversation moderated by psychoanalyst Dr. David Dorenbaum, visual artists Nicole Collins, Erika DeFreitas and Tim Whiten discuss the role art plays as they grapple with these questions and their psychological weight.
Presented in conjunction with Nicole Collins: Furthest Boundless
Tim Whiten’s artistic pursuits have sought to navigate the human condition and its transformative potential with a body of work encompassing a myriad of forms both two- and three-dimensional, including site specific works, real-time systems, ritual performances and mixed media installations. He perceives expressions of being in the world as markers in a series of passages, while considering mortality itself as a threshold. Media such as adobe, chewing gum, gold and glass, point to transformation – coaxing a consideration of the transcendent moment. Over more than forty years of exhibitions, Whiten’s work has been featured in numerous international venues in Mexico, Brazil, Germany, the United States of America and China, and can be found in the collections of The National Gallery of Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The M.H. De Young Museum of San Francisco, the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and many others. Whiten has also been instrumental in influencing generations of aspiring artists as Professor of Fine Art at York University since 1968. He is represented by Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto.
Image: Nicole Collins, Furthest Boundless (installation detail), 2018. Photo: Dahlia Katz.
