Peter Powning
Subtitle: a retrospective = une rétrospective
By: edited by John Leroux = sous le direction de John Leroux
Contributors: Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions; Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Fredericton, New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781773101927
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Container of (work): Peter Powning.; Container of (expression): Peter Powning. French.
Description: "Peter Powning is simultaneously referred to as a sculptor and a ceramist, but his art does not fit easy categorization, incorporating and combining elements from one medium into another. His work challenges the viewer to reconsider the object, its form, and its function. This inventiveness has resulted in numerous exhibitions, awards, and commissions for public art sculptures throughout Canada. Featuring 175 full-colour images of Powning's work along with essays by curators and critics, Peter Powning celebrates the career of one of Canada's finest visual artists and accompanies a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, opening in September 2020."--
Notes: Accompanies an exhibition held at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery during October 2020 and touring in 2021 and 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John Leroux; title: Peter Powning: Expanding Ceramic and Craft Practices in Canada / Rachel Gotlieb; title: Exploration, Experimentation, Self-Sufficiency, and Technical Mastery in the 1970s and 1980s / Peter Larocque; title: Peter Powning: Art into Time / John K. Grande; title: Encrypted Civilization: The Mythic Basis of Peter Powning's Art / Allen Bentley; title: Afterword / Beth Powning; title: Acknowledgements / Peter Powning.