Monica Tap

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Monica Tap
Born
Monica Tap

1962
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
NationalityCanadian
EducationNova Scotia College of Art and Design
Known forPainting
Websitewww.monicatap.com

Monica Tap (born 1962 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian painter, artist and educator. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, and teaches at the University of Guelph. She is known for engaging and challenging conventions concerning landscape and still-life painting.[1]

Biography[]

Tap was born in Edmonton, Alberta.[2] She attended the Alberta College of Art, University of Alberta (1986), and NSCAD University for her BFA (1990), and MFA (1996). She studied Fine Arts with Gerald Ferguson.[1][3]

Artistic career[]

Tap often uses photographs and video stills as source material for her paintings. For instance, in her work for the exhibition Running on Empty, she peered out of window of a car, and used a digital camera to record the landscape ("at the Mpeg standard format of 15 frames per second" as Heather Nicol, the author of the catalogue, said). The resulting images are blurred and though not abstract, are toward abstraction.[4] Barry Schwabsky has noted that "her art offers one of the richest and most original revisionary instances of how the temporality of the act of looking can continue to keep painting in motion today".[5]

She has exhibited her work across Canada and abroad, and is currently represented by MKG127 in Toronto and Peter Robertson Gallery in Edmonton.[3]

Exhibitions[]

Selected solo and two-person exhibitions[3]

  • 2014 Teufelsmoor and other haunts. Gallery Stratford. Stratford, ON.
  • 2013 New work. MKG127 (front gallery). Toronto, ON.
  • 2012 Road work. The String Room Gallery, Wells College. Aurora, New York.
  • 2012 Six ways from Sunday. Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
  • 2011 Another Roadside Abstraction: David Garneau and Monica Tap. Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK.
  • 2011 Monica Tap: Study Notes. Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto. ON.
  • 2011 Road Trip. Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB.
  • 2010 Sequence and Passage: Mara Korkola and Monica Tap, Cambridge Art Galleries, Cambridge, ON.
  • 2010 Here and also elsewhere: New Paintings, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON.
  • 2009 Unnatural: Michel Daigneault and Monica Tap. Rodman Hall, St Catherine’s, ON.
  • 2008 Monica Tap: Split Seconds. Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON
  • 2008 Views from the Train: One-second Hudson[6] and other works. McLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON.
  • 2008 The Passing Landscape. Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, ON.
  • 2007 Séance, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
  • 2007 One-second Hudson, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON.
  • 2007 Grand River Chronicles: Séance. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON.
  • 2005 (also: 2003, 2000, 1998) Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON.
  • 2005 Over here/ over there. Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON.
  • 2005 Paintings. Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB.
  • 2002 Further, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery. Owen Sound, ON.
  • 2002 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, and Vancouver, B.C. (2000, 1997)
  • 2000 Field work, The Painting Center, New York, NY.
  • 1999 Fields, Gallery 1.1.1, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MN.
  • 1996 Reprise, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS.
Recent group exhibitions
  • 2015 Stopping by Woods. Harbourfront Gallery (Artport Gallery). Toronto, ON.
  • 2015 Running on Empty. Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Oshawa, ON.
  • 2014 Crossover. Boston Cyberarts Gallery. Boston, MA.
  • 2013 STAG. Dispari & Dispari Projects, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • 2012 60 Painters. Curator: Scott Sawtell. Toronto, ON
  • 2010 Art School Dismissed, curator/ producer: Heather Nicol, Toronto, ON

Selected awards and honours[]

  • 2008 Banff Centre for the Arts, "Artist in a Mountain Landscape"[3]
  • 2005-2009 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Research/ Creation Grant in Fine Art "Translation as a Strategy of Renewal in Painting"
  • 2005 Warren Goldring Scholarship, Banff, Optic Nerve Residency
  • 2005 Open Studio Print Residency, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2002 Banff Centre for the Arts, "New Works"

Collections[]

Monica Tap's works are included in many public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Art Gallery of Guelph, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (NYC, Berlin), Canada House (London, UK), Bank of Montréal, TELUS, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts, ESSO Imperial Oil Canada , CIBC Mellon, University of Toronto, Würth Collection (Germany), and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.[7]

Publications[]

  • 2004 The Princess and the Paint box. In Jane Fine, (invited essay for exhibition catalogue). Peirogi, Brooklyn, New York, p. 24
  • 2002 Hungry Eyes in Hungry Eyes: New Abstract Painting in New York and Toronto (curated by Monica Tapp). Dalhousie Art Gallery.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Tousley, Nancy Monica Tap: Painting and Perception Monica Tap Paintings ed. Susan Harrison. Montreal: ABC Art Books Canada, 2004. 11-21 Exhibition Catalogue
  2. ^ "Monica Tap Further: Paintings by Monica Tap". saag.ca. SAAG - Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Monica Tap" (PDF). www.uoguelph.ca. U Guelph. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  4. ^ Nicol, Heather (2015). Running on Empty. Oshawa: Robert McLaughlin Gallery. p. 15. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
  5. ^ Schwabsky, Barry (2014). Monica Tap: the pace of days. Guelph: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. pp. 8–13. ISBN 978-1-926875-04-0. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
  6. ^ Monica Tap : one-second Hudson : March 6 to June 1, 2008, MacLaren Art Centre. MacLaren Art Centre. 2008. ISBN 978-0-9738829-4-0.
  7. ^ "Monica Tap – MKG127".

Examples of work[]

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