Background
Sandra Meigs was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1953.
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Sandra Meigs
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Meigs obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in Halifax in 1975, and then completed her Master of Philosophy at Dalhousie University (also in Halifax) in 1980.
Career
She began her career as a painter in Toronto, and in 1993, moved to Victoria, British Columbia where she is a Professor in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. Meigs’ paintings have been exhibited internationally at venues including The Power Plant, Toronto. Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.
Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna.
Freedman Gallery Albright College, Pennsylvania. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto.
Galerie Chantal Boulanger, Montréal. Musée Regional de Rimouski, Rimouski. The Fodor Museum, Amsterdam.
And the fifth Biennale of Sydney.
In 2015 she was awarded the Governor General"s Award in Visual and Media Arts and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. Meigs is known for her vivid, enigmatic paintings that combine dense narratives with comic elements.
Her paintings are often provocative, providing layers of meaning that are gradually revealed. As David Jager writes in National Organization for Women Magaine, “Sandra Meigs’ textured surfaces and silhouette shapes seem casually naive at first glance, but they are actually carefully planned.
Layering the canvas with gesso, she produces smooth raised lines and surfaces whose negative spaces hold as many surprises as her blobby and colourful shapes.” Meigs works in various media and often experiments with new techniques and unusual combinations of materials.
Her 2010 body of work entitled The Fold Heads, for example, straddles the line between painting and sculpture.
Membership
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]
She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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Governor General's Award
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.