Barbara Astman exhibition at Corkin Gallery

Artist Barbara Astman in front of an installation of her work at the The Murano Condos in Toronto. Brett Gundlock. Taken from her presentation in Financial Post, June 4th 2010, Garry Marr's, Art of the build, article

Corkin Gallery is pleased to present new work by Barbara Astman. "Daily Collage" will open on September 10th 2011, 2-5pm. In these large scale unique photographic works, Barbara Astman continues her obsession with daily news and its visual imagery.

The series developed from her ongoing habit of reading the daily news. Astman cut and collaged newspaper images into a small note book using improvisation and spontaneity. The artist creates a direct and immediate response to the imagery we face in our lives daily.

Daily Collage is about impulse and intuition. Astman does not censor or translate; she lets the viewer create their own narratives.

A few words about the artist

An American who studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Barbara Astman (born 1950) came to Canada in 1970, during the Vietnam War. She has been exhibiting in public galleries and museums across Canada and abroad since 1975 at venues such as the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, AB, George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, France and Galleria Luca Polazzoli in Milan, Italy. Astman has produced numerous public commissions, the most recent of which was for the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, in 2005. Barbara Astman is also a dedicated art professor who has mentored numerous emerging artists at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, where she has been teaching since the mid 1970s.

She is featured in The Maclean’s Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture, and Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. Her work is found in important public collections including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

Information provided through Corkin Gallery and artist's personal website.