Almost Live episode #174
Jane Martin’s subject has always been human relationships, whether within the family, among friends, or the intimate give and take of the couple. This exhibition, curated by former CUAG director Diana Nemiroff, takes its title from the ties – often literal in Martin’s work – that express both the fulfillments and frustrations of these connections.
Drawing on public and private collections, including CUAG’s rich holdings, this first retrospective of Martin’s work divides her fifty-year career into three periods. In the first, spanning the 1970s and 1980s, the artist examines friendship and family life with a gaze by turns sentimental and sardonic. The second charts the sensuality and suffering of the flesh in works from the late 1980s and early 1990s, while the third is focused on the faithfully honest, yet tender late portraits she made of herself and her husband Ewen McCuaig, interspersed with paintings of the roses they grew and loved.
Host Amy Amantea will joined by Carleton University Art Gallery educator Fiona Wright, who will present descriptive highlights from this recent exhibition.
Presented with the kind permission of Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG)
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About the Artist
Jane Martin is a senior Canadian artist practicing for five decades to develop a visual vocabulary that focuses on bodies, burdens, and life stages. Working in painting, drawing, and photography, Jane Martin’s works are an act of remembering. Her works are part of the collections at the National Gallery of Canada and an exhibit of drawing entitled Something Happened is in the permanent collection of The Art Gallery of Ontario. She has shown in group exhibitions with the likes of Christian Boltanski, Greg Curnoe, and Eric Fischl. She has also exhibited internationally at Kunsthaus Santa Fe and Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez El Nigromante in Mexico. She is a past president of the artists’ collective CARFAC and an in-demand expert advocating for artists’ rights and copyright modernization.
