"Kim Dorland" explores the mind and work of one of Canada's most intriguing contemporary artists. Named Globe and Mail 'Artist of the Year' in 2013, Dorland has captured the public's imagination with his tour-de-force, visceral creations. His paintings are at once referential, material, psychological, beautiful, and uncomfortable, resulting in a body of work that is seemingly disparate but undeniably connected through its idiosyncratic - and maximal - use of paint in all its forms.

Curator Katerina Atanassova, MA, joined the Varley Art Gallery team in 1999 as the education/program co-ordinator. Her research on Fred Varley and William Berczy has led to several key exhibitions for the Varley Art Gallery, including Towards the Spiritual in Canadian Art in the summer of 25.

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Robert Enright is one of Canada's best known cultural journalists. He is the founder and Senior Contributing Editor of Border Crossings magazine and holds a research chair in Art Criticism at the University of Guelph. He was an art critic for CBC radio and television for twenty-five years and continues to contribute to a number of network programs. He also contributes regularly to the Globe and Mail, and to a number of international art magazines. For his work he has received fourteen nominations at the National and Western Magazine Awards. In 2005 he was named a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

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Jeffrey Spalding is an artist, past president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, former director of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and member of the Order of Canada.Jeffrey Spalding est artiste, ex-président de l'Académie royale des arts du Canada, ancien directeur de Musée des beaux-arts de la Nouvelle-Écosse et membre de l#&39;Ordre du Canada.

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