After graduating from Ontario College of Art in 1989, Angela Leach has been developing and exhibiting a body of work investigating geometric abstract painting. Leach’s professional practice began as a founding member of the Toronto artist collective Painting Disorders and since that time her work has traveled throughout Canada and abroad. In 2005, to celebrate nearly 100 years of abstract painting, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York included her work in the international survey, Extreme Abstraction. Leach’s work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the University of Toronto as part of the Hart House and Donovan Collections. She was also included in Roald Nasgaard’s 2007 survey book, ‘Abstract Painting in Canada’.
Education:
1989 - Ontario College of Art, AOCA
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2007 - Angela Leach Abstract Repeat Series: Wave & Loop, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2005 - Angela Leach Shimmy, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto
2005 -Angela Leach Skip, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario
2005 -Angela Leach Paintings, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
2004 -Angela Leach Shimmy, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
2004 -New Works, State Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2004 -Angela Leach Paintings, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 2004 -Alberta
2004 -Abstract Repeat Series - New Paintings, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2003 - Angela Leach Shimmy, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
2001 - New Paintings, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1999 - Abstract Repeat - New Paintings, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2008 - HK Summer 2008 Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2008 -Pulse 2: Film and Painting After the Image, Images Festival, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2006 - Pulse: Film and Painting After the Image, Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2005 - You Don’t Want To Miss That Shit, Contemporary Painting at the Gladstone, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2005 - Dimensionality, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto
2005 - The Transformative Power of Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2005 - Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2005 - Informal Ideas 04:05, (please press landscape),Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2005 - Illusion, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland
2005 - Big Show, 1139 College Street, Toronto
2004 - Representing Abstraction - paintings from the Hart House permanent collection,
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto
2004 - Summer Showcase No. 1, State Gallery, Vancouver
2004 - Vivid, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2003 - The Big Abstract Show, The Painting Center, New York, New York
2003 -Hard Curves - Soft Points, State Gallery, Vancouver
2003 -Technicolour, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2000 - Visual Stimulants, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
1999 - Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
1998 - Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1997 - Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art, The Power Plant, Toronto
1996 - Perspective 96, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Collections:
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto
Donovan Collection, University of Toronto, Toronto
Grants and Awards:
2006 - Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant, Mid-Career
2005 - Toronto Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant, Mid-Career
2000 - Arts Toronto 2000 Protégé Honours, selected by 1999 Toronto Arts Award Recipient, Robert Fones
1995 - Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant, Emerging
1989 - W. O. Forsythe Scholarship for Proficiency in Painting, Ontario College of Art
Exhibition Catalogues and Bookworks:
2007 - Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.,Vancouver, British Columbia,
2007 -Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2005 - Emily Falvey and Gordon Hatt, Angela Leach Paintings, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2004 - Carol Podedworny and Virginia M. Eichhorn, Vivd, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2004 -Sarah Stanners, Representing Abstraction - paintings from the Hart House permanent
collection exhibition folio, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House, University of
Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2000 - Keith Wallace, Visual Stimulants, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1999 - Ihor Holubizky, Joseph R. Wolin, David Moos, Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
1997 - Philip Monk, Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art, The Power Plant, Toronto
1996 - Jessica Bradley, Perspective 96, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Reviews:
2008 - Amy Verner, “Globe Life Style: g is for geometrics gone wild...,” The Globe and Mail (March 29)
2008 -Betty Ann Jordan, “Artist File: Angela Leach,” Canadian House & Home (April)
2005 - Julia Dault, “Avenue at the Galleries,” National Post (October 6)
2005 - Gary Michael Dault, “Journey through the Wall and Back Again,” The Globe and Mail (Sept. 17)
2005 - R M Vaughan, “Big Picture - op-art redux,” National Post, (September 17)
2005 -Susanna Vanek, “Logik und Intersität der Farben,” Freiamt Aargauer Zeitung (June 2)
2005 -Matthew Van Dongen, “It’s art that can make you sick,” St. Catharines Standard (December 30)
2004 - Corinna Ghaznavi, “Rewind,” Canadian Art (Summer)
2004 - Peter Godard, “Galleries awash in winter abstractions,” Toronto Star (February 26
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Betty Ann Jordan, “February at a Glance,” Toronto Life (February)
2004 - Adam McDowell, “Toronto artist is turning heads,” Toronto Observer (February 26)
2003 - Gilbert Bouchard, “New techniques yield new art,” Edmonton Journal (March 28)
2003 - Julia Dault, “Illusions to caress the eyes,” National Post (October 23)
2001 - Deirdre Hanna, “Leach’s Lines,” Now Magazine (May 17)
Joanne Huffa, “Arts: Best Bet,” Eye (May 17)
2000 - Elee Kraljii Gardiner, “Editor’s Choice,” Vancouver Magazine (September)
1999 - Gary Michael Dault, “Gallery Going,” The Globe and Mail (September 4)
1999 -Betty Ann Jordan, “Adventures in Art,” Where Toronto (September)
1997 - John Armstrong, “Disorderly Conduit,” Border Crossings (Volume 16, #2)
1997 -John Bentley Mays, “Unnatural art beats tattoo on the soul,” The Globe and Mail (July 12)
1997 - Catherine Osborne, “Perspective 96,” Parachute (#87)
1996 - Blake Gopnik, “Young Painters Look Backward,” The Globe and Mail (November 23)
Related Professional Experience:
2008 - Board of Directors, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough, Ontario
2006 - Visiting artist and student critique, University of Guelph, Guelph
2004 - Visiting artist and student critique, University of Waterloo, Waterloo
Artist Lectures:
2007 - University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
2005 - Doris McCarthy Art Gallery, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough
2005 - Art and Art History, Sheridan College, Oakville
2005 - Toronto School of Art, Toronto
2005 - Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
2005 - Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines
2004 - Art Creates Change - Lecture Series, The Faculty of Art At The 2004 - Ontario College of Art& Design, Toronto
2004 - University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo
2003 - Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge
2003 -York University, Toronto
2000 - Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1999 - Art and Art History, Sheridan College, Oakville
1997 - Toronto Art ...Seen: Wynick/Tuck Gallery - Lecture, C Magazine, Toronto
1996 - Toronto Art ...Seen: Wynick/Tuck Gallery - Lecture, C Magazine
Artist Projects:
2008 Participating Artist, New Models for Abstraction, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Juror:
2007 - Lee Centre Park Sculpture Competition, City of Toronto, Toronto
2007 - Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, City of Toronto
2005 - Hart House Art Competition, University of Toronto
Teaching:
Present Instructor, Toronto School of Art, Toronto, Ontario
Instructor, Art and Art History Department, University of Toronto at Mississauga and Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario
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