Airmail mixed media on canvas, 36" × 40" |
Harbour mixed media on canvas, 48" × 60" |
Jonesy mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24" |
Tartlette mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24" |
Caroline mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24" |
Terra Mama mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24" |
Pauline Conley Artist Biography
Born and raised in Vancouver, Pauline Conley studied fine art and English, and lived on Vancouver Island for several years before moving to Kingston, Ontario.
As a painter she is drawn to the power of the non-representational. In recent years, her images have begun to relax into a sort of representation of the imagined. First, the horizon found its way into her work – the sight line which is the friction point between the elements, and between the known and the unknown. It is a powerful cultural and visual reference point upon which the metaphor of landscape hangs. The horizon eventually became a line in the air, and this line evokes the clothesline, the jet stream, mapped domains, and the ubiquitous bird on a wire. These are the grid lines of our lives – the divisions of space that are as familiar and comforting as the horizon.
In the very recent past, a deconstruction of the motifs Conley had been working with has taken hold. Her focus has shifted to the grids and patterns themselves as evocative montages of everyday life - both routine and divine.
Selected Exhibitions:
Curatorial/Colloquium Projects:
Curator – Artropolis 2003 Residue Vancouver, BC, May 2003
Coordinator: Comox Valley Visual Arts Conference, Courtenay, BC (2002) Presenters: AA Bronson, Arni Haraldsson, Gu Xiong, Lisa MacLean, Lorraine Simms, Risa Horowitz, Robert Belton, Josephine Mills, Andrew Hunter, others TBA
Programming coordinator: Richmond Art Gallery Visual Arts Conference, RichmondBC, August (2001) Presenters: Rory Wallace, Trevor Boddy, Reid Sheir, Christina Ritchie, Germaine Koh, Rita McKeough, Rick Rivets, Donald Lawrence, Kevin Eichi deForest, Margaret Dragu
Coordinator: ComoxValley Visual Arts Conference, Courtenay, BC , (2000) Presenters: Ken Lum, Ian Wallace, Hugh Mackenzie, Gordon Smith, Michelle Forsyth, Joan Cardinal Schubert, Henri Robideau, Al MacWilliam, Alain Benoit, Haruko Okano
Reviews/Articles:
Interview with Sheryl McKay, North by Northwest, CBC Radio, March 6, 2002
Fiction of Landscape, Paula Wild/ Comox Valley Record, Friday February 8, 2002
The Fiction of Landscape, Donna Mattila/ The Word, December 13, 2001
Education:
Reviews/ Articles
Interview with Sheryl McKay, North by Northwest, CBC Radio, March 6, 2002
Fiction of Landscape, Paula Wild/ Comox Valley Record, Friday February 8, 2002
The Fiction of Landscape, Donna Mattila/ The Word, December 13, 2001
Education:
BA English, Thompson Rivers University, 2008
Capilano College, North Vancouver BC/ Design and Craft Program, 1982-83
University of Victoria, Victoria BC/ Fine Arts (Painting), 1983 - 84
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC/ Fine Arts and English Literature/ 1986
In the very recent past, a deconstruction of the motifs Conley had been working with has taken hold. Her focus has shifted to the grids and patterns themselves as evocative montages of everyday life - both routine and divine.
Selected Exhibitions:
Abstract Artworks: A celebration of Canadian women's influence on nonrepresentational art"
February 18th to March 9th, 2012, Gallery Gevik, 12 Hazelton Ave., Toronto, Ontario
I AM WATER: a group exhibition in support of the Lake Ontario Waterkeepers, curator Sue Sheedy. Window Art Gallery, Kingston, ON K7L 1E4, March 22 – April 22, 2012
The Artist Project Toronto, March 2012
New Work: paintings by Pauline Conley and glass works by Mariel Wadell and Mishka Hunter. KGS Gallery, Kingston, ON, January 15 to March 15, 2012.
New Work: Jane Colden, Pauline Conley and Lori Richards. Gallery Raymond, Kingston, ON Jan 28 to Feb 22, 2012.
Small Work – featuring works by Karo Alexanian, Janine Carreau, Pauline Conley, Christian Deberdt, Henry Wanton-Jones, Tony Kew, Sylvia Lefkovitz, Danièle Lemieux, Rita Letendre, Daphne Odjig, Pierre Patry, Carol Wald, and Jeff Willmore Gallery Gevik, 12 Hazelton Ave., Toronto, Ontario Nov 26, 2011-Jan 6, 2012
The Kingston Project: with Diane Black, Jane Colden, Jane Derby and Lori Richards. Gallery Gevik, 12 Hazelton Ave., Toronto, Ontario Sept 24 – Oct 24, 2011.
Synergy: Annual invitational group show presented by the Organization of Kingston Women Artists, Kingston Public Library February 2011, and Belleville Public Library, March 2011
Invitational Group Show: Organization of Kingston Women Artists, Mill St. Gallery, Sydenham ON, Nov-Dec - 2010
The Artist Project Toronto, March 2011.
Women on Woman Marylin Timms Curator, Comox Valley Public Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2006)
{Retrospective: solo exhibition, Muir Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2006)
The last 25 years, a group show of gallery artists; Comox Valley Public Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2005)
The Homeless Mind: curated by Donald Lawrence and Will Garrett-Petts, Comox Valley Public Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2004)
The Fiction of Landscape: Paintings by Pauline Conley, Tracy Kobus and Natasha Henderson, Comox Valley Public Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2002)
Friction, Solo Exhibition, Marilyn Timms Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2002)
RECALL: Paintings by Pauline Conley and Sculpture by Sharon Perkins, The Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, BC October 16 to November 4. (2001)
Artropolis 2001-Consolidation, Contact and Conflict: The artist in bucolic paradise and poverty, Tony Martin Curator, Vancouver, BC April (2001)
35th Anniversary Juried Show, Muir Gallery, Courtenay, BC, Award of Excellence (2000)
Small: The Art of Miniature 2, Ed Varney Curator, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver (2000)
artWORK: Celebrating BC’s Emerging Visual Artists, BC Festival of the Arts, Nelson, BC (2000)
25th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC (1999)
Art and Artist of the 21st Century, Ed Varney Curator, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Bowen Island, and Sechelt BC (1999)
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Recent Paintings of Tracy Kobus and Pauline Conley, Courtenay, BC (1999)
Juried Members Exhibition: Muir Gallery, Courtenay, BC Honourable Mention (1999)
Curatorial/Colloquium Projects:
Curator – Artropolis 2003 Residue Vancouver, BC, May 2003
Coordinator: Comox Valley Visual Arts Conference, Courtenay, BC (2002) Presenters: AA Bronson, Arni Haraldsson, Gu Xiong, Lisa MacLean, Lorraine Simms, Risa Horowitz, Robert Belton, Josephine Mills, Andrew Hunter, others TBA
Programming coordinator: Richmond Art Gallery Visual Arts Conference, RichmondBC, August (2001) Presenters: Rory Wallace, Trevor Boddy, Reid Sheir, Christina Ritchie, Germaine Koh, Rita McKeough, Rick Rivets, Donald Lawrence, Kevin Eichi deForest, Margaret Dragu
Coordinator: ComoxValley Visual Arts Conference, Courtenay, BC , (2000) Presenters: Ken Lum, Ian Wallace, Hugh Mackenzie, Gordon Smith, Michelle Forsyth, Joan Cardinal Schubert, Henri Robideau, Al MacWilliam, Alain Benoit, Haruko Okano
Reviews/Articles:
Interview with Sheryl McKay, North by Northwest, CBC Radio, March 6, 2002
Fiction of Landscape, Paula Wild/ Comox Valley Record, Friday February 8, 2002
The Fiction of Landscape, Donna Mattila/ The Word, December 13, 2001
Education:
BA English, Thompson Rivers University, 2008
Capilano College, North Vancouver BC/ Design and Craft Program, 1982-83
University of Victoria, Victoria BC/ Fine Arts (Painting), 1983 - 84
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC/ Fine Arts and English Literature/ 1986