Charmaine Lurch

Charmaine Lurch is a Toronto-based painter, sculptor, installation artist and arts educator known for her interdisciplinary work and exploration of themes including Black studies and environmental issues.

Charmaine Lurch
Born
Jamaica
NationalityCanadian
Alma materYork University, Sheridan College, OCAD University

Early life and education

Lurch was born in Jamaica and came to Canada at the age of six.[1] She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from York University and diplomas in design and illustration from Sheridan College, both in Ontario.[2] In addition, she studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City [3]

Work

Lurch's work often incorporates themes of world histories, Black history, diversity, equity and environmental issues.[4] She is active as an art educator in Toronto.[1] As a lead artist with the non-profit group Inner City Angels, Lurch leads interdisciplinary public art projects involving children.[5][6] Her sculpture Bees is installed in the Regent Park social housing development in Toronto.[7] She cites artists including Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Jasmine Thomas-Grivan, Denyse Thomasos, and Theaster Gates as inspirations.[8] Lurch has been critical of the way the traditional power structures of the art world systematically exclude artists of colour.[9]

Major exhibitions

Lurch's work has been exhibited at a number of venues including the Royal Ontario Museum, Nuit Blanche, the University of British Columbia, and the National Gallery of Jamaica.[3] Her work A Mobile and Visible Carriage was prominently featured in the group show Every.Now.Then at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2017.[10][11]

References
  1. "Passion in local artist's work speaks out for her". Ron Fanfair. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  2. "Black Visualities and Protest: A talk with Charmaine Lurch". Concordia University: Events. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  3. "Every.Now.Then: Reframing Nationhood". Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  4. "Up Close: Charmaine Lurch". CBC Radio. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  5. "Charmaine Lurch". innercityangels.ca. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  6. "Students paint ceiling of Toronto school in their 'Michelangelo moment' | The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  7. "New Regent Park enlivened with local art | The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  8. Edmonds, Pamela (1 November 2015). "Conversations in Flux: An Interview with artist Charmaine Lurch". WordMag. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  9. Kustanczy, Catherine (March 7, 2016). "Aim to get diversity down to a fine art". MetroCanada. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  10. Whyte, Murray (4 July 2017). "Opinion: Canada revisited at the Art Gallery of Ontario". OurWindsor.ca. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  11. Hunter, Andrew, ed. (2017). Every. Now. Then : Reframing Nationhood. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-894243-95-7.
  12. "Charmaine Lurch: Compounding Vision". Akimbo. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  13. Gazzola, Bart (4 November 2019). "Be[e]ing & Seeing: Compounding Visions". The Sound. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  14. "Critical Mass". Art Gallery of Guelph. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  15. "Settling in Place: Aylan Couchie, Martha Griffith, Charmaine Lurch". MacLaren Art Centre. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  16. "Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  17. "Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood". Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
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