Carole Itter

Carole Itter (b. September 29, 1939[1][2] ) is a Canadian artist, writer, performer and filmmaker.[3][4]

Carole Itter
BornSeptember 29, 1939
Vancouver, Canada
Known forSculptor, Writer, Performance artist, Filmmaker, Photographer
AwardsVIVA (Vancouver Institute of Visual Arts) Award (1989); Audain Prize in Visual Art (2017)

Life

Itter attended the Vancouver School of Art in 1961,[5] which was renamed as the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1978 and then renamed again to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2008. She later became an instructor at the university.[6] She attended the L'Accademia di Bella Arti in Rome in 1964. Itter lived with her partner, Al Neil, in a structure known as The Blue Cabin, originally built in 1932 and located near Cates Park in North Vancouver.[7] The Blue Cabin was restored and moved to False Creek to serve as a floating artist-in-residency in 2019.[8][9]

Career

Itter's sculptures, assemblages, collages, installations, performances and writings are strongly influenced by the people and places where she has lived, and frequently reflect social and political issues.[10][11] She herself is represented in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Vancouver Public Library and the Canada Council Art Bank.[12]

Art

Itter's 1972 piece, Personal Baggage has been described as a key work in Vancouver art. This piece acted to shift art from the gallery setting into the physical world by removing a cedar log from Roberts Creek, British Columbia, disassembling it, and then transporting it to Lockeport, Nova Scotia where it was reassembled.[13] This process was documented by Itter and published in a book entitled The Log's Log.[14]

Her 1979 photo series Euclid, documents her partner, Al Neil, tracing geometric figures in the sand of Cates Park in North Vancouver. These photographs were then projected onto one of Neil's live piano performances and used as cover art for his album Fog and Boot.[15]

In 1994, Itter collaborated with Luke Blackstone and Al Neil on her installation of found objects emerging from an antique organ that were painted and gilded for her exhibit Where the Streets are Paved with Gold: A Tribute to a Canadian Immigrant Neighbourhood. Itter claimed she was inspired by immigrants in her Vancouver community who shared their experiences of Canada with her, calling it "a place where the streets were paved with gold."[16]

Writing

In 1972, Itter had a daughter, Lara, with Vancouver poet, Gerry Gilbert.[17] After battling depression for many years, Lara Gilbert died by suicide in 1995.[18] Itter edited Lara's extensive journals and published them under Lara's name in I Might Be Nothing.[19] With Daphne Marlatt, Itter compiled and edited a history of Vancouver's Strathcona neighbourhood titled Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End.[20] Their book was republished as Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End in 2011.[21] Other works by Itter include The Log's Log [22] and Whistle Daughter Whistle.[23] Her writing has also been featured in literary magazines such as Room of One's Own.[24]

Selected awards

In 1989 Itter received the VIVA (Vancouver Institute of Visual Arts) Award.[25] In 2017 she received the Audain Prize in Visual Art.[26][25]

Selected exhibitions
1984, Rattles, Western Front[27]
1991, Carole Itter: Where the Streets are Paved with Gold: A Tribute to a Canadian Immigrant Neighbourhood, Vancouver Art Gallery
1994, Carole Itter: Desolate Combination of Objects, Pitt Gallery
1995, The Float, Or Gallery[28]
1999, The Pink Room, grunt gallery[29]
2007, Metallic: A Fish Film, grunt gallery[30]
2008, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery[31]
2013, The Piano, Art Gallery of Alberta
2015, The Poetics of Space, Vancouver Art Gallery[32]
2015-16, Between Object and Action, Transforming Media in the 1960s and 70s, Vancouver Art Gallery[33]
2019, Beginning with the Seventies: Radial Change, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery[34]
2020, Art at Home Live, Vancouver Art Gallery[35]

References
  1. "Artists in Canada".
  2. "Artist Carole Itter to receive Audain Prize". 5 April 2017.
  3. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery; Grunt Gallery. "People / Carole Itter". Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  4. Rantanen, Maria. "Cineworks presents an evening of Carole Itter films". North Shore News. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  5. "Alumni from 1960 - 1979". www.connect.ecuad.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  6. "Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design 1999-2000. Degrees in Visual Arts, Media Arts + Design. | ECUAD". ecuad.arcabc.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  7. "Historic Vancouver piano makes music again in The Blue Cabin". vancouversun. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  8. "Historic North Vancouver cabin reborn as artist residency in False Creek | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  9. "THE BLUE CABIN – FLOATING ARTIST RESIDENCY". Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  10. Lacey, Liam (April 13, 1991). "Art review: Carole Itter's installation piece is an iconic tribute to a Vancouver district's immigrants that evokes a particular sense of place". The Globe and Mail. p. C13.
  11. Laurence, Robin (November 4, 1995). "Carole Itter's found objects float a conservation ethic". Vancouver Sun. p. D5.
  12. "Art At Home LIVE | Carole Itter". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  13. "Scott Watson on Terminal City: Place, Culture, and the Regional Inflection". ccca.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  14. "Talk: Carole Itter and Devon Knowles part of Geometry of Knowing - SFU Galleries - Simon Fraser University". Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  15. "All Exhibitions | EVAN LEE". evanlee.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  16. "Where the Streets are Paved with Gold: A Tribute to a Canadian Immigrant Neighbourhood | Open Space". openspace.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  17. Salem, Alaton (May 19, 1986). "The Video Game Exhibit Marks Colorful Era in Black and White Tapes". The Globe and Mail. p. C12.
  18. Wigod, Rebecca (July 31, 2004). "Young woman who flirted with danger left a 3,000 page journal". Vancouver Sun. p. F12.
  19. Gilbert, Lara (2004). I Might Be Nothing. Victoria: Trafford Publishing.
  20. Itter, Carole; Marlatt, Daphne (1979). Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End. Victoria: Aural History Program, Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Government Services, Provincial Archives.
  21. Itter, Carole; Marlatt, Daphne (2011). Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing. ISBN 9781550175219.
  22. Itter, Carol (1973). The Log's Log. Vancouver: Intermedia Press.
  23. Itter, Carole (1982). Whistle Daughter Whistle. Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press. ISBN 9780920576120.
  24. "Room's 40th Anniversary Anthology | Room Magazine". roommagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  25. "Carole Itter receives 2017 Audain Prize in visual arts".
  26. "Carole Itter receives 2017 Audain Prize in visual arts".
  27. Gallery, Belkin. "Carole Itter". vancouverartinthesixties.com. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  28. "Carole Itter, The Float, October 21 - November 18, 1995 | Or Gallery". orgallery.org. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  29. "The Pink Room | The Activation Map". Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  30. "Metallic: A Fish Film | The Activation Map". Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  31. "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  32. "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  33. "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  34. "Beginning with the Seventies: Radial Change". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  35. "Art At Home LIVE | Carole Itter". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
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