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Dorothy Cameron

Private Eye: Selected Work from 1979-91

text by Joan Murray, Dorothy Cameron & Ihor Holubizky

Publisher
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Initial publish date
Jan 1993
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921500285
    Publish Date
    Jan 1993
    List Price
    $7

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Since 1978, Dorothy Cameron has worked on the creation of her own idiosyncratic art, a series of large installations in clay, papier machê and assorted materials. A blend of sophistication and naivety, her work is involved with consciousness and memory.

About the authors

Joan Murray, an independent curator and art historian, is considered one of the most accessible of Canadian art writers and has studied and exhibited Tom Thomson for four decades. Since the late 1960s, she has been a curator of several institutions, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, and director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa (1974-99) and the McMichael Canadian Art Gallery in Kleinburg (2005-6). Murray was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1992 and has been honoured with the Senior Award from the Association of Cultural Executives, the Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries and the Order of Ontario. She lives in Toronto, Ontario

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Ihor Holubizky is an art historian and curator. He has held several public gallery curatorial positions, including curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton and has been guest curator for retrospective exhibitions of Don Jean-Louis, Walter Tandy Murch, and Kazao Nakamura at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Holubizky holds a PhD in art history from the University of Queensland, Australia, and has contributed writing to numerous publications on historical, modern, and contemporary topics in art and culture in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. He lectures on a wide range of topics across Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Australia.

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