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Gerald Ferguson
3 Doormats
2003-2005

About the Item

Available at Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, Ct Gerald Ferguson (1937-2009) was involved early on in the 1960’s in the conceptual art scene in New York. In 1968 he began teaching at NCCAD in Halifax Nova Scotia where he taught for the next 35 years. In Ferguson’s career he was exhibited widely internationally. The body of work being shown represents the frottage work of Ferguson for which he is best known. The hands-on no-nonsense work ethic was important to the artist and is evident in the powerful raw nature of this body of work, implemented with off-the-shelf- marine black paint. The quick decisiveness hands-off approach captures what Ferguson called, beauty through the back door. Gerald Ferguson was a widely acclaimed conceptual artist, painter, writer, curator, collector and influential professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design for almost four decades. His ground-breaking work has been exhibited throughout Canada, as well as in the U.S. and Europe, and collected by most major public galleries in Canada, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia as well as the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He was also included in the seminal exhibition that cemented conceptualism as a genre, Information, at the Museum of Modern Art, 1970. His work was seen in annual solo exhibitions at WTG for over twenty years. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize. As an influential and respected professor he, along with Gary Neill Kennedy, transformed the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the late 60’s to become a world renowned art school. In his section on Ferguson in Abstract Painting in Canada, Roald Nasgaard stated Always there are ironies, subterfuges or inversions with regard to the proud history of abstraction, operations that nevertheless (or is it therefore?) yield profoundly moving visual poetry, as Gary Michael Dault concluded on viewing an exhibition of the Frottage Paintings at the Wynick/Tuck Gallery in Toronto in 2002. For one of the Millennium Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, 2000, curator Diana Nemiroff organized an exhibition of Ferguson’s One Million Pennies, 1974 and the 100 painting installation, 1,000,000 Grapes, (initially exhibited at the Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery in the fall of 1998). In Dennis Reid’s third edition of A Concise History of Canadian Painting, he wrote about the Grapes; —It was painting elevated to a cosmic, perhaps even celestial, level.

Creator:
Gerald Ferguson (1937 - 2009)
Creation Year:
2003-2005
Dimensions:
Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 48.25 in (122.56 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Enamel
Movement & Style:
Conceptual
Period:
2000-2009
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New Haven, CT
Reference Number:
Seller: FE0000071stDibs: LU1622283081

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