Sandra Paikowsky
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29 December 1945
Sandra Paikowsky | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sandra Roslyn Paikowsky 29 December 1945 |
| Education | B.A. Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), Montreal (1967); M.A. University of Toronto (1969) |
| Known for | educator, curator, writer |
| Spouse | John Fox (m. 1982) |
| Awards | Order of Canada (2015) |
Sandra Paikowsky CM (born 29 December 1945) is a Canadian art historian, academic, curator, and writer with a career spanning five decades. In 2015, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to the development of Canadian art history as a discipline.
Paikowsky was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. She received her B.A. from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), Montreal (1967), and her M.A. from University of Toronto (1969). She lives in Montreal.[1]
Career
Paikowsky began her career in 1969 teaching art history at Concordia University in Montreal. As professor teaching art history there for over 40 years, she helped found the country's first Canadian art history program.[1] In 1981, she also became the Director/Curator at the Concordia Art Gallery (now the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery), responsible for organizing many exhibitions in a broad range of Canadian art, encompassing modern or contemporary artists, often in mid-career or featuring their Montreal years, and societies and critics in Montreal. She was the co-founder and then the Editor and Publisher of the only peer review devoted to the history and theory of the visual arts in Canada - the "Journal of Canadian Art History"/Annales d’histoire de l'art canadien [2] - for over 35 years (1974 on)[1] with scholarly and informative articles about Canadian art, architecture and the decorative arts.[3] She also was co-editor of the McGill-Queen's University Press/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History series.[4]
She taught undergraduate and graduate courses on different aspects of Canadian art. She retired in 2012 as professor emeritus.[5][6]
She has lectured widely on 20th century Canadian art, both nationally and internationally, and organized conferences on Canadian art, such as "Untold Histories", on art in the Maritime Provinces which was held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia as well as creating the first history of the Maritime Art Association with a helpful website.[7] In addition to teaching, she has supervised M.A. and Ph.D. theses in the area of Canadian art history.[8]
Selected exhibitions
Paikowsky organized, co-organized, or contributed essays to exhibitions on the art of Joyce Wieland (1985), Betty Goodwin (1986), Medrie MacPhee (1986), Rita Letendre (1989), and Irene Whittome (1990), and many others as well as on subjects such Quebec abstract painting in such catalogues as Achieving the modern: Canadian abstract painting and design in the 1950s for the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1993.[9] In 1994, she curated and wrote the catalogue for Nova Scotian Pictures: Painting in Nova Scotia 1940-1966 at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax. She has curated exhibitions on a broad range of subjects from the L'Association des artistes non figuratifs de Montréal = The Non-Figurative Artists' Association of Montréal (1983) to an exhibition on Robert Ayre: Le critique face à la collection = Robert Ayre: The Critic and the Collection (1992).[10]
In 2010 she curated the exhibition John Fox: Refiguration in Montreal at the McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Montreal and in 2011 John Fox: Opera su carta in Venice, Italy.[11]
