Untitled, from the series The Picture Collection | Annie MacDonell
2012
22 x 17 inches (29.25 x 25 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Annie MacDonell’s series The Picture Collection is both an investigation of the tethers linking photography to twentieth-century modernist thought and an interrogation of her own methodology for producing work. Through these contemplations, MacDonell further questions what it means to be making work after the twentieth century.
The images come from the Picture Collection at the Toronto Reference Library, a resource often used by artists in the city. In selecting images from the “Reflections” and “Mirrors” folders, MacDonell illustrates the mise-en-abyme created by re-photographing images that contain either doubled or reflected imagery. This self-reflexive combination of appropriation and creation brings both ideas of originality and the process of image-making into question.
ABOUT ANNIE MACDONNELL
Born 1976 in Windsor, ON
Annie MacDonell is a visual artist working across mediums. Her practice begins from the photographic impulse to frame and capture, but her output extends beyond photography. In recent years her work has included films, installations, sculpture, performance, and writing. Her work questions the constitution, function, and circulation of images in the twenty-first century. She has lectured or performed at the Toronto International Film Festival; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, among other venues. She received her BFA from Ryerson University and an MFA from Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Gallery TPW presented her solo exhibition “The Castle and Other Works” in 2006.
Selected solo exhibitions: “The Levellers,” Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON (2017); “Holding Still // Holding Together,” Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2016); “The Hand and the Glove,” Mulherin New York (2014); “The Fortune Teller,” Art Gallery of Ontario (2012); “Originality and the Avant-Garde,” Mercer Union, Toronto (2012); “The Abyss and the Horizon,” Art Gallery of Windsor (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Mémoire de l’Imagination,” Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, (2015); “A Problem So Big, It Needs Other People,” SBC Gallery, Montreal (2014); “Dark Stars,” MOCA Cleveland (2012); “Photography Is Magic,” Daegu Photobiennale, Daegu, South Korea (2012); “The Grange Prize,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Canada House, London (2012); “Dans la nuit, des images,” Grand Palais, Paris (2009); “Signals in the Dark,” Blackwood Gallery, Toronto (2008)
2012
22 x 17 inches (29.25 x 25 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Annie MacDonell’s series The Picture Collection is both an investigation of the tethers linking photography to twentieth-century modernist thought and an interrogation of her own methodology for producing work. Through these contemplations, MacDonell further questions what it means to be making work after the twentieth century.
The images come from the Picture Collection at the Toronto Reference Library, a resource often used by artists in the city. In selecting images from the “Reflections” and “Mirrors” folders, MacDonell illustrates the mise-en-abyme created by re-photographing images that contain either doubled or reflected imagery. This self-reflexive combination of appropriation and creation brings both ideas of originality and the process of image-making into question.
ABOUT ANNIE MACDONNELL
Born 1976 in Windsor, ON
Annie MacDonell is a visual artist working across mediums. Her practice begins from the photographic impulse to frame and capture, but her output extends beyond photography. In recent years her work has included films, installations, sculpture, performance, and writing. Her work questions the constitution, function, and circulation of images in the twenty-first century. She has lectured or performed at the Toronto International Film Festival; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, among other venues. She received her BFA from Ryerson University and an MFA from Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Gallery TPW presented her solo exhibition “The Castle and Other Works” in 2006.
Selected solo exhibitions: “The Levellers,” Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON (2017); “Holding Still // Holding Together,” Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2016); “The Hand and the Glove,” Mulherin New York (2014); “The Fortune Teller,” Art Gallery of Ontario (2012); “Originality and the Avant-Garde,” Mercer Union, Toronto (2012); “The Abyss and the Horizon,” Art Gallery of Windsor (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Mémoire de l’Imagination,” Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, (2015); “A Problem So Big, It Needs Other People,” SBC Gallery, Montreal (2014); “Dark Stars,” MOCA Cleveland (2012); “Photography Is Magic,” Daegu Photobiennale, Daegu, South Korea (2012); “The Grange Prize,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Canada House, London (2012); “Dans la nuit, des images,” Grand Palais, Paris (2009); “Signals in the Dark,” Blackwood Gallery, Toronto (2008)
2012
22 x 17 inches (29.25 x 25 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Annie MacDonell’s series The Picture Collection is both an investigation of the tethers linking photography to twentieth-century modernist thought and an interrogation of her own methodology for producing work. Through these contemplations, MacDonell further questions what it means to be making work after the twentieth century.
The images come from the Picture Collection at the Toronto Reference Library, a resource often used by artists in the city. In selecting images from the “Reflections” and “Mirrors” folders, MacDonell illustrates the mise-en-abyme created by re-photographing images that contain either doubled or reflected imagery. This self-reflexive combination of appropriation and creation brings both ideas of originality and the process of image-making into question.
ABOUT ANNIE MACDONNELL
Born 1976 in Windsor, ON
Annie MacDonell is a visual artist working across mediums. Her practice begins from the photographic impulse to frame and capture, but her output extends beyond photography. In recent years her work has included films, installations, sculpture, performance, and writing. Her work questions the constitution, function, and circulation of images in the twenty-first century. She has lectured or performed at the Toronto International Film Festival; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, among other venues. She received her BFA from Ryerson University and an MFA from Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Gallery TPW presented her solo exhibition “The Castle and Other Works” in 2006.
Selected solo exhibitions: “The Levellers,” Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON (2017); “Holding Still // Holding Together,” Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2016); “The Hand and the Glove,” Mulherin New York (2014); “The Fortune Teller,” Art Gallery of Ontario (2012); “Originality and the Avant-Garde,” Mercer Union, Toronto (2012); “The Abyss and the Horizon,” Art Gallery of Windsor (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Mémoire de l’Imagination,” Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, (2015); “A Problem So Big, It Needs Other People,” SBC Gallery, Montreal (2014); “Dark Stars,” MOCA Cleveland (2012); “Photography Is Magic,” Daegu Photobiennale, Daegu, South Korea (2012); “The Grange Prize,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Canada House, London (2012); “Dans la nuit, des images,” Grand Palais, Paris (2009); “Signals in the Dark,” Blackwood Gallery, Toronto (2008)