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Terry Fenton BORN July 1, 1940, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Critic, curator, and author of articles and books on Canadian and international artists. Books on Anthony Caro and Kenneth Noland are available around the world. Author of guides to the appreciation of art for the interested layman as well as co-host of a radio program on artists and art. In 1982 at request of Sir Anthony Caro and Hon. Robert Loder helped found Triangle Artists Workshop in New York State, a facility devised to bring together ambitious artists from around the world at no cost to government. Frequent guest critic at artists workshops in Canada, America, and England. In-studio critic and coach to painters and sculptors in America, England, and Canada. Advisor to collectors both corporate and private, specializing in contemporary painting, sculpture, and photography. Landscape painter with work in national and international collections. Director of The Edmonton Art Gallery from 1972-1988. During this time helped make Edmonton an international center for both the collection and creation of art. That direction involved: - a vital and effective exhibition and extension program; - a provocative series of publications; - a public EDUCATION program designed to teach the principles of appreciation; - the establishment of an outstanding collection of Canadian and international art; and - the creation of strong links between the gallery and local artists and collectors. Artistic Director of the Leighton Foundation, Calgary, 1988-93. Director of the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 1993-97 President, Saskatchewan Arts Alliance, 1997-2000 Currently self-employed landscape painter, writer, art consultant. CURRICULUM VITAE EMPLOYMENT 1999 Artist; writer; president, Saskatchewan Arts Alliance; Canadian contributor, Architectural Digest (1999). 1997-98 Terry Fenton Art Services Inc. 1993-97 Director, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1987-93 Terry Fenton Art Services Inc., Artistic Director to the Leighton Foundation, Calgary, Alberta 1972-87 Director, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta. 1965-71 Assistant to the Director, The Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan. 1962-65 Social Worker I with the Alberta Department of Public Welfare, Edmonton, Alberta. AWARDS / HONOURS 1988 Alberta Achievement Award EDUCATION 1969 Emma Lake Artists Workshop (led by Michael Steiner). 1970 1967 Emma Lake Artist's Workshop (led by Frank Stella). 1971 1965-66 University of Regina, post-graduate studies in English Literature. 1972 1965 Emma Lake Artists Workshop (led by Lawrence Alloway and John Cage). 1973 1960-62 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, BA cum laude, English Literature. 1974 1958-60 School of Fine Art, Regina College. SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2004 "A Wide Horizon" Swift Current Art Gallery & Moose Jaw Art Gallery, catalogue introduction by Helen Marzolf Solo Exhibition, Virginia Christopher Fine Art, Calgary Solo Exhibition, Winchester Gallery, Victoria 2003 Solo Exhibition, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC Solo Exhibition, Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipeg Group Exhibition, Regina paintings, Regina Public Library 2002 Solo Exhibition, Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC 2001 Solo Exhibition, Bugera Kmet Gallery, Edmonton 1999 Solo Exhibition, Bugera Kmet Gallery, Edmonton 1998 "Visiting Artists, LandScape 98" Group exhibition, Art Placement, Saskatoon 1996 Solo exhibition, Bugera Kmet Gallery, Edmonton; group exhibitions , Art Placement, Saskatoon, Leighton Foundation, Calgary. 1995 Solo Exhibition, Loading Bay Gallery, Calgary group exhibitions at Meredith Long Gallery, Houston; Koffler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; and art placement, Saskatoon 1994 solo exhibitions, Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton Solo exhibition, Leighton Foundation, Calgary 1993 Large Recent Paintings, RXN Visions, Calgary Recent Work, Leighton Foundation, Calgary Group Exhibition, Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton Solo Exhibition, Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton 1992 "Small Oils from Nature": Group exhibition organized by the Leighton Foundation Christmas Exhibition, RXN Visions, Calgary 1991 Solo exhibition, the Leighton Foundation, Calgary 1990 Solo exhibition, The Gallery, art placement, Saskatoon Group exhibition, Western Landscape Painters, Gallery One, Toronto Solo exhibition, Gallery on Whyte, Edmonton 1989 Solo exhibition, Gallery on Whyte, Edmonton Solo exhibition, Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary Group Drawing exhibition, Edmonton Art Gallery 1988 Alberta Landscape Painters, ACA Gallery, Calgary Summer exhibition, Edmonton Art Gallery Group Paint-In exhibition, Leighton Foundation 1987 Solo exhibition, Grand Forks Regional Art Gallery, Grand Forks, B.C. 1986 Solo exhibition, Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary. 1985 Two person exhibition, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York City. "Western Landscape Painters", Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary. 1984 Solo exhibition, The Gallery, art placement, Saskatoon. 1983 Solo exhibition, Gallery One, Toronto. Solo exhibition, Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton. 1982 "Three Edmonton Landscape Painters", Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary. Solo exhibition, Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary. Gallery artists, Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton. 1981 Solo exhibition, Hett Gallery, Edmonton. Gallery artists, Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton. Landscape artists, The Gallery, art placement, Saskatoon. 1979 Solo exhibition, Hett Gallery, Edmonton. 1978 Two person exhibition (with Ron Myren), Canadian Galleries, Calgary 1970 Two person exhibition (with Dorothy Knowles), Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library. ART DEALERS WHO HANDLE FENTON PAINTINGS Leighton Foundation Site 31, Box 9, RR 8 Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2J 2T9 403 931-3153 e-mail: lcf@sharecom.ca Virginia Christopher Fine Art 222 Riverfront Ave. SW Calgary AB T2P 0A5 Canada 403 263-4346 e-mail: virginiachristopherfineart@shaw.ca web site: www.virginiachristopherfineart.com Bugera Gallery 12310 Jasper Ave Edmonton, Alberta T5N 3K5 780482-2854/tel 780482-2591/fax email: info@agnesbugeragallery.com The Gallery/Art Placement 228-3rd Ave South (Travelers Blk Annex) Saskatoon, SK S7K 1L9 306 664-3385 306 933-2521 FAX e-mail: gallery.artplacement@quadrant.net web site: www.quadrant.net/artplacement/ Assiniboia Gallery 2429 11th Ave Regina, SK S4P 0K4 306 522-0997 e-mail: assiniboia.gallery@sk.sympatico.ca web site: www.assiniboia.com Mayberry Fine Art 212 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg MB R3B 0S3 Canada 204 255 5690 e-mail: info@mayberryfineart.com web site: www.mayberryfineart.com/ Meredith Long Gallery 2323 San Felipe Road Houston, TX 77019 713 523-6671 713 523-2355 FAX web site: meredithlonggallery.com/ Kathryn Markel Fine Art 529 W. 20th St., 6th Floor New York, NY 10011 212 226.3608 Fax:212 226.3654 e-mail: markel@markelfinearts.com web site: www.markelfinearts.com Winchester Galleries 2260 Oak Bay Avenue Victoria BC V8R 1G7 Canada 250 595-27771010 Broad St Victoria BC V8W 1Z9 Canada 250 386-2773 e-mail: art@winchestergalleriesltd.com web site: winchestergalleriesltd.com/ COLLECTIONS Alberta Foundation For The Arts Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Canada Council Art Bank Cameco Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Edmonton Art Gallery Kamloops Art Gallery Leighton Foundation, Calgary MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon Moose Jaw Art Museum Saskatchewan Arts Board Private and corporate collections in Canada, USA, and England University of Lethbridge University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SELECTED CURATORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS Anthony Caro: The Emma Lake Sculptures, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 2003 "Qu'appelle, Tales of Two Valleys", Border Crossings, Nov. 2002. Kenneth Noland, Themes and Variations, 1958-2000, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; 2002 The English Novelty - British Watercolours from the 18th, 19th, & 20th Centuries, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon. <www.sharecom.ca/wc/ > Appreciating Noland, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1991 A. C. Leighton in the Rockies, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1989. Anthony Caro, Ediciones Poligrapha, Barcelona, 1986; Thames and Hudson, London, 1986; Rizzoli, New York, 1986. Peter Hide in Canada, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1986. Dorothy Knowles: Paintings 1964-1982, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1983. Jules Olitski and the Tradition of Oil Painting, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1979. Modern Painting in Canada, (with Karen Wilkin), Hurtig, Edmonton, 1978. The Picture Book, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1978. The ABC of Sculpture, Edmonton, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1974. How to look at a Painting, Edmonton, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1975. Abstraction West: Emma Lake and After, National Gallery of Canada, 1975. Jack Bush: A Retrospective, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975. Watercolour Painters from Saskatchewan, National Gallery of Canada, 1971. LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOP, COMMISSIONS 1998 Art Gallery Grants juror, Canada Council. Two lectures, University of Lethbridge. Chair and Visiting Artist, LandScape 98, Saskatoon. Commissioned by Cameco Corp to make paintings of Uranium mine sites in northern Saskatchewan. 1997 Visiting Artist, Leighton Foundation, Calgary. 1993 Panel speaker: "The Influence of Art Institutions on the Production of Art". University of Lethbridge. 1992 Organized: three Visiting Artists Sessions for Leighton Foundation, two near Calgary, one near Pincher Creek. 1991 July. Working artist and visiting critic, Emma Lake Artists Workshop. Sept. Organizer and participant, Leighton Foundation Visiting Artists Session, Waterton, AB. Organized three other Visiting Artists Sessions and two Paint-Ins for Leighton Foundation. 1990 Organizer of three Leighton Foundation Visiting Artists Sessions. Visiting critic, Hardingham Sculpture Workshop, Norfolk, England. 1989 May. Organizer and participant, Leighton Foundation Landscape Workshop. 1988 July. Visiting Critic, Emma Lake Artists Workshop, Canada. August. Visiting Critic, Hardingham Workshop, Norfolk, England. September: Organized first "Paint-In" at Leighton Foundation, Calgary. 1986 August. Visiting Critic, Hardingham Workshop, Norfolk, England. 1985 May 23. Position Paper on Federal Arts Funding, CMA Annual Conference, Ottawa. June. Visiting critic, Sculptors Workshop, Medicine Hat, Alberta. 1984 Sculpture events at the Royal College of Art, London, England, May 1984: May 15. "What was St. Martins?" (Panel chairman). May 17. "Sculpture in Western Canada", (Lecture). May 18. "Cycles and Watersheds: Recent Developments in Sculpture", (Panel chairman). 1982 July. Triangle Workshop: With Sir Anthony Caro and Robert Loder, MP, co-founder and organizer as well as first visiting critic at Triangle Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, N.Y. 1980 Juror, Red Deer Sculpture Symposium. 1978 Jan 18. Juror, Commonwealth Games Sculpture Symposium. May 6-7. Juror, SGIO Juried Art Competition, Regina. Sept. 27. Lecture, "Contemporary Art and Western Canada", The Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery. 1977 Feb. 4. Panel Moderator: "Canadian Artists on Canadian Art", The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. March 2-3. Keynote speaker and panel moderator at a symposium on Contemporary Canadian Painting organized by The Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston. May. Lecture, "New Canadian Painting", Southern Alberta Art Gallery. May 26. Opening speaker, Jack Bush Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, August. Visiting critic (with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro) at Emma Lake Artists Workshop. Oct. 6. Lecture, "The Art Environment in Canada", Canadian Society of education Through Art, Annual Meeting, Calgary. Dec. 1. Lecture, "Pictorial Art", The Banff Centre. 1975-78 "Lives of the Painters", weekly radio series on CFRN-FM, Edmonton. |