Curator Tour of The Multiple Lives of Paintings with Timothy Long
Installation view of The Multiple Lives of Paintings: European Painting 1500— 1800, 2023. Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Photo by Don Hall.
About
Join MacKenzie Head Curator Timothy Long for a curator-led tour of The Multiple Lives of Paintings: European Painting 1500— 1800!
Tour starts at 7 PM.
The Multiple Lives of Paintings explores various moments in the lives of paintings—complex objects with lifespans that can extend well over five hundred years. Building on the success of The Multiple Lives of Drawings, the exhibition highlights twenty-two early modern paintings (1500–1800) in the MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina Collection. Original research by the curators, Sapienza University of Rome art historian Francesco Freddolini and Head Curator Timothy Long, has resulted in fresh attributions for a number of the paintings and discoveries that deepen our understanding of the long and varied lives of works on canvas and panel.
About the Curator
Timothy Long studied art history at the University of Regina (BA Hons 1986) and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (MA 1990). He has over thirty years of curatorial experience at the MacKenzie Art Gallery where he is Head Curator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Regina. Writing regional art histories and assessing their impacts has driven several of his collaborative investigations, including: Regina Clay: Worlds in the Making (2005), Superscreen: The Making of an Artist-Run Counterculture and the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop (2019, with Alex King), and nationally touring retrospectives of David Thauberger (2014, with Sandra Fraser) and Victor Cicansky (2019, with Julia Krueger). Other projects, including Atom Egoyan: Steenbeckett (2016, with Christine Ramsay and Elizabeth Matheson) and the MAGDANCE series of exhibition/dance residencies with New Dance Horizons, are the result of his interest in interdisciplinary dialogues between art, sound, ceramics, film, and contemporary dance. His application of the cultural anthropology of René Girard has resulted in a number MacKenzie publications, including: The Limits of Life: Arnulf Rainer and Georges Rouault (2004), Theatroclasm: Mirrors, Mimesis and the Place of the Viewer (2009), and Masculin/Féminin: Ian Wallace and Jean-Luc Godard (2011).