AGO Exhibition & Reception with Naoko Matsubara
Date: Wednesday, October 15
12:00 - 1:30pm
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West; Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G4
Join us for an exclusive viewing of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s new exhibition featuring legendary Japanese-Canadian artist, Naoko Matsubara, followed by a private reception. Matsubara will give remarks, along with AGO curator Renée van der Avoird, to Harvard Club of Toronto members and guests. Don’t miss this special opportunity - register today!
BONUS - enjoy this special access to the AGO after our event!
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EXHIBITION OVERVIEW: A career-spanning presentation of 20 exuberant woodcut prints by one of Canada’s leading printmakers, in her first solo exhibition at the AGO, Naoko Matsubara demonstrates her masterful handling of the medium, exploring personal and art historical subjects. Composed of vibrant, complementary colours animated with incisions and wood grain, anchoring the exhibition is Tagasode (2014), a monumental 2 meter single-sheet print, recalling an ikō – a piece of furniture on which a kimono hangs. Also featured is her series In Praise of Hands (1973-2020) which illustrates the ingenuity of hands performing actions like weaving bamboo, playing the flute and carving wood. The exhibition is curated by Renée van der Avoird, associate curator of Canadian Art, AGO.
SEE https://www.oakvillenews.org/local-news/ago-hosts-first-solo-exhibition-of-oakville-artist-naoko-matsubara-10955998
ARTIST BIO: Naoko Matsubara is a distinguished Japanese-Canadian woodcut print artist born in 1937 on Shikoku Island into a Shinto family, grew up in Kyoto. She completed a BFA at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Art in 1960 and was a Fulbright Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (MFA 1962). Matsubara attended the Royal College of Art in London in 1962. She lived in Japan for two years, before returning to the US where she was an assistant to the professor, publisher and illustrator Fritz Eichenberg. She taught at the Pratt Institute of Graphic Art and at the University of Rhode Island. Matsubara has had more than 75 solo exhibitions, in the USA, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Mexico. Her work is held in major public institutions including Harvard Art Museums; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Detroit Institute of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum; the British Museum; the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art; and the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art. Matsubara is represented by Abbozzo Gallery in Toronto and resides in Oakville, Ontario.