Monica Tap
Professor
College of Arts
School of Fine Art and Music
Guelph, Ontario
mtap@uoguelph.ca
Office:
(519) 824-4120 ext. 56275
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Bio/Research
Dr. Tap is the area coordinator for painting. She is an artist whose many activities involve investigating questions of representation and the historical predicament of painting. Her practice opens up a space between landscape and abstraction and navigates the terrain between drawing and painting...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Tap is the area coordinator for painting. She is an artist whose many activities involve investigating questions of representation and the historical predicament of painting. Her practice opens up a space between landscape and abstraction and navigates the terrain between drawing and painting and, most recently, between painting and video.
Over the past ten years, her lush, calligraphic and painterly canvases, which are conceptual and systematic investigations into the codes of pictorial illusionism and perception, have been widely exhibited in Canada as well as in London, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; and New York.
Previously, Tap taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is the recipient of many grants and awards, most recently from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for her project, "Translation as a Strategy of Renewal in Painting".
In 2002, she curated "hungry eyes: recent abstract painting in New York and Toronto" for the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Tap's work is presented in private, corporate and public collections in Canada and the U.S., and represented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery in Toronto and the Douglas Udell Gallery in Edmonton and Vancouver.
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Over the past ten years, her lush, calligraphic and painterly canvases, which are conceptual and systematic investigations into the codes of pictorial illusionism and perception, have been widely exhibited in Canada as well as in London, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; and New York.
Previously, Tap taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is the recipient of many grants and awards, most recently from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for her project, "Translation as a Strategy of Renewal in Painting".
In 2002, she curated "hungry eyes: recent abstract painting in New York and Toronto" for the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Tap's work is presented in private, corporate and public collections in Canada and the U.S., and represented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery in Toronto and the Douglas Udell Gallery in Edmonton and Vancouver.
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