Join Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art for a guided tour of a true passion project, Joyce Wieland: Heart On

• Wednesday September 17
• 6:00pm – 7:00pm
• In-Gallery (5th Floor)
• No registration required, just drop-in
• this Curator’s Tour is exclusive to AGO volunteers

Bold, audacious, and colourful – are we talking about Georgiana, or Joyce? – it’s BOTH!  Join Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, for this special exhibition tour, organized exclusively for AGO volunteers, in recognition of your support for the exhibition through the Volunteer Endowment Trust.

About Joyce Wieland:               

Born and raised in Toronto, Joyce Wieland (1930–1998) was one of Canada’s most prominent and prolific twentieth-century artists. Her career in the arts started in the mid-1950s at Graphic Films in Toronto. She spent the late 1950s and early 1960s drawing and painting, and was increasingly included in exhibitions across the country.  By 1960, Wieland was represented by The Isaacs Gallery, with whom she continued to exhibit until the late 1980s. Her 1971 exhibition True Patriot Love Véritable amour patriotique was the first by a living woman artist ever held at the National Gallery of Canada. This groundbreaking presentation explored Canadian identity, the North and included a number of textile works, thereby inserting women’s traditional culture and craft into the previously male-dominated realms of the National Gallery and the contemporary artworld. The early 1980s signaled Wieland’s return to figurative drawing and painting. In 1987, the AGO organized her major retrospective, the first such exhibition to be dedicated to a living woman artist in the institution’s history.  

About Georgiana Uhlyarik:

Prior to joining the AGO in 2002, Georgiana Uhlyarik held curatorial various roles at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, The Power Plant and the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation. She earned an Honours Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Toronto and a Master’s Degree in art history from York University. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at York University and University of Toronto. As co-lead of the AGO’s department of Indigenous and Canadian art, Uhlyarik’s area of specialty is the work of 20th-century women artists. Select exhibitions include: Florine Stettheimer (2017), Georgia O’Keeffe (2017), Introducing Suzy Lake (2014).

We look forward to seeing you there!

(as a guided exhibition walk-through, this talk can’t be recorded- please plan to attend!)