[BCMA] Lunchtime Talks -- Walter Tandy Murch: The Spirit of Things

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Subject: 	Lunchtime Talks -- Walter Tandy Murch: The Spirit of Things
Date: 	Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:55:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	SFU Gallery <gallery at sfu.ca>




Lunchtime talks on the amazing Walter Murch exhibition at the SFU 
Gallery - this week only, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday at 12:05 and 
12:35.  Please come by.




*Walter Tandy Murch: /The Spirit of Things
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/Curated by Ihor Holubizky & Bill Jeffries. Circulated by the Robert 
McLaughlin Gallery
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/*September 11 to October 30, 2010
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 *SFU Gallery, Burnaby*


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This exhibition showcases the work of an artist who is regarded by some 
as Canada’s greatest still life painter. Walter Murch (1907–1967) 
painted fragments of modernity. He anticipated the fragmentation of the 
contemporary world in vanitas tableaux that linked the newly 
plasticized present of the 1950s and ‘60s with the past world of 
imagined Platonic, idealized forms. In a century obsessed with the idea 
of ‘the new’ Murch painted twentieth-century materiality as if through 
Vermeer’s eyes.


This long-overdue exhibition is the first Canadian show of Murch’s work 
ever held west of Ontario. Murch grew up in Toronto, attended the 
Ontario College of Art and went to New York City for a ‘short visit’ in 
1927. From the 1940s until his death he showed with the Betty Parsons 
Gallery in New York (along with Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and 
Barnett Newman, et al), and held teaching posts at several American 
universities, where his teaching was widely admired. The works in the 
exhibition are on loan from private collections and the artist’s estate.
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*Publication: *catalogue of the exhibition with texts by Ihor Holubizky 
and Bill Jeffries is available at the Gallery for $30. Published by the 
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa.
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*Events:
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*Tuesday October 12, 7pm

Bill Jeffries: /A Canadian in New York – Walter Tandy Murch Conquers the 
Big Apple
/*SFU Vancouver, 515 W, Hastings, Room 7000

The success of a shy twenty-year old from Toronto during his forty 
years in New York City is explored via the evolution of Murch’s art. 
Bill Jeffries is the Director of the SFU Gallery.
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*Lunchtime talks at 12:05pm and 12:35pm. Tuesday, Wednesday and 
Thursday, September 14, 15 and 16.
**Talks for classes or groups may be scheduled by appointment.




Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus | 778-782-4266 
<callto:+1778-782-4266> | sfu.ca/gallery

Open Tuesday to Friday: 10am to 5pm, Saturday: 12pm to 5pm. Closed 
holiday long weekends

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