Elizabeth Chitty Tonight at Hamilton Artists Inc.

It’s a good week for artist’s talks in Hamilton. I expect to be back shortly with an account of last night’s wildly entertaining talk with Allyson Mitchell on her Ladies Sasquatch at the McMaster Museum of Art, but in the meantime allow me to offer a quick heads-up for Elizabeth Chitty’s talk tonight at Hamilton Artists Inc. While I am personally unable to attend, I would highly encourage any and all of you with a free Friday night on your hands to take this opportunity to hear a vital Canadian artist speak about her practice dating back to the 1970s and the early days of artist-run culture.

Elizabeth Chitty, Fall (Installation View, 2008). Image from CCCA: The Canadian Art Database

Hamilton Artists Inc.
Presents
ARTISTS TALK WITH
ELIZABETH CHITTY
Friday March 20th, 2009
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Admission is FREE
Elizabeth Chitty is an interdisciplinary artist born and residing in
St. Catharines, ON. Since 1975, she has created performance, video,
installation and photo works. Her performance work has had 4 phases:
works influenced by conceptual art and the multidisciplinary climate of
the 70s in Canadian artist-run centres (1975-82); epic spectacles with
multiple slide projections (1983-90); landscape-based, in which the
audiences followed walks and trails (1992-97) and the current phase of
voice, movement and visuals. Her single-channel video works were
exhibited widely in the late 70s and 80s including at the 11e Biennale
de Paris (1980) and the opening of the National Gallery of Canada (1988)
and in 2006-09 are included in the touring National Gallery of Canada
exhibition, Art Metropole: Top 100. Her installations have been
exhibited in Niagara. She has work in the collections of Canada Council
Art Bank, National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Hamilton and
Musée d’art contemporain.

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