Art Talks: Jane Adams in Conversation with Hilary Letwin
Channel: West Vancouver Memorial Library
Date: 2023-07-27

Recorded on July 26, 2023.

Join West Vancouver Art Museum Curator Hilary Letwin in a conversation with artist Jane Adams as they discuss how the art of BC Binning influenced Adams’ early artistic career. This Art Talk is a partnership with the West Vancouver Art Museum, presenting Order from Chaos: BC Binning and Jane Adams until September 23.

Jane Adams was born in Vancouver. From 1962 to 1966, she was a student at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art + Design) where she studied with Jack Shadbolt, Don Jarvis, Roy Kiyooka, and Orville Fisher. She worked with William Townsend in 1965 at the Slade School of Art in London, England. Adams’ first solo exhibition took place in 1973 at the Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver. She has since shown across Canada. Her work is held in corporate, private, and public collections, including the National Art Bank, Royal Trust, Price Waterhouse Cooper, BCAA, Teleglobe Canada, Union Life, Via Rail, and Esso Resources.

Dr. Hilary Letwin gained her PhD in Art History from Johns Hopkins University in 2013. She has held Curatorial Fellowships at the British Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Recent projects include Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci (2020); Design for Living: West Coast Modern Homes Revisited (2019); Saints, Sinners and Souvenirs: Italian Masterworks on Paper (2019); and Molly Lamb Bobak: Talk of the Town (2018). She currently works as the museum administrator/curator at the West Vancouver Art Museum.

Image credit: BC Binning, Untitled (Sketch for Night Regatta), 1953-55, oil on board, 55.5 x 45.5 cm. Collection of the West Vancouver Art Museum, Gift of Estate of Jessie Binning, 2008.003.002.

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