Risa Horowitz

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Risa Horowitz
Born1970
NationalityCanadian
EducationYork University, University of Saskatchewan
Known forVisual and media artist
AwardsK.M. Hunter Artist Award

Risa Horowitz (born 1970) is a Canadian visual and media artist. Her works have been exhibited across Canada and internationally.[1] Her work has been shown at Canada House in London, England, and is included in its permanent collection.[2][3] She is currently an associate professor at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Education[]

Horowitz received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Studies in 1995 at York University, and completed her masters in Visual Arts in 2000 at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2012 she completed her PhD in Visual Arts at York University.[4][5]

Career[]

She has lived and worked in seven different Canadian provinces[6] and has taught critical issues for studio artists, photography, and digital imaging at York University and Grenfell Campus. She is currently an associate professor of Visual Arts and head of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina, in Saskatchewan.[7]

As an academic, Horowitz is interested in the ways in which information systems frame knowledge, and in practice-based scholarship and the shaping of art practice by university structures and expert/amateur distinctions.[8]

In 2011, she co-founded the Working Group for Studio Art Practice and Research for the University Art Association of Canada with Annie Martin.

Works[]

Landscapes and Silence (2016)[]

Landscapes and Silence] featuring Horowitz’s work Starfields and Fields (2016), was realized with the collaborative support of Edgar Pinto and exhibition co-curator Tanya Abraham of the Kashi Art Gallery and the [Art Outreach Society (TAOS) in Kochi, Kerala.

Imaging Saturn (2016)[]

Imaging Saturn (2016) is a multimedia installation that focuses on Saturn, its orbit, and the paths of the sun and surrounding stars. Incorporating aspects of participatory science and data visualization, the exhibit combines astronomy and astrophotography with mapping of Saturn's ecliptic, a mechanized orbiter (developed with Ray Peterson), kinetic sculptures, and video. It reflects an interest in Saturn going back to 2010.[6][9]

Blurry Canada (2011)[]

During a road trip across Canada in 2010, Horowitz recorded 175 hours of continuous video and 20,000 images. Seventy-five chromogenic prints, and all 175 hours of video in a 13-day loop, were exhibited in her show Blurry Canada at Dunlop Sherwood Village Gallery in Regina in 2011.[10][11] The exhibit was shown at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in 2012.[12]

Trio (2008)[]

Trio is a multichannel video installation that shows Horowitz' efforts to learn to play Franz Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2, a trio for piano, cello and violin.[13] Trio was presented at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia, in 2008.[14]

Trees of Canada (2007)[]

For Trees of Canada Horowitz drew upon Canada's 2004 National Forest Inventory as an inspiration for examining indigenous and naturalized trees.[1] Her resulting series of acrylic paintings was exhibited in 2007 at the Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta, and in 2008 at MKG127 Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.[1] Twenty pieces from Trees of Canada (2007) were acquired by Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade for the permanent collection of Canada House in London, England.[2][3] Horowitz attended the unveiling, at which Queen Elizabeth II was present.[8]

twitch (2003)[]

twitch (2003) is a group exhibition curated by Risa Horowitz. It began as a two person exhibit which was orchestrated by the selection committee for regular programming at Ace Art inc. This hybrid collaboration consisted of five artists; David Rokeby’s Very Nervous System; Garnet Hertz’s Experiments in Galvanism; Nicholas Stedman’s The Blanket Project; Kevin Yates’ Untitled (Dying Bull) and other works; and Erika Lincoln’s Scale[15].

twitch invites the viewer to consider the simulated fantasy that technology and interactive media can provide throughout the exhibit. Horowitz describes the exhibit; “twitch is about comfort; thought; pleasure; mystery; learning; joy; fear; pain; the search for meaning; mythology and enabling myths; our place in the universe; loneliness”.[15]

Melitzah (2000–2007)[]

Melitzah (2000–2007) is an extensive vocal performance coupled with the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. Horowitz visualized every word in the dictionary with a waveform of her pronunciation of that word and documented her visualization in a set of 138 books and a website.[16] Melitzah was selected for the FILE Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo Brazil, in 2005.[4]

girl before a mirror (2000)[]

girl before a mirror (2000) is an MFA project completed at the University of Saskatchewan originally exhibited at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery.[17] It is based loosely on a 1932 painting of the same name by Pablo Picasso. Horowitz started with a catalog of photographic self portraits compiled between 1993 and 1999 in the Canadian communities of Toronto, French River, Windsor, Vancouver, and Saskatoon. The concept of a mirror is here being used as an analogue for a self portrait, with the idea that the portrait never perfectly reflects the actual person. Horowitz used the concept to explore a triple level of surveillance. She was surveilling herself through her own self portraits. By exhibiting them on the web and in galleries, she was allowing others to perform their own surveillance on her surveillance. Finally, since the web site recorded such things as search terms, she was able to do her own further surveillance of her audience through the way they interacted with her site.[18][19]

Awards[]

Horowitz was the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in 2006.[20]

Publications[]

Selected publications by Risa Horowitz:[7]

  • 2014 Horowitz, Risa, guest editor with introduction, "Practices: As if from nowhere…artists' thoughts about research-creation", Review d'art canadienne Canadian Art Review (RACAR), vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 2014)
  • 2014 Horowitz, Risa. "Imaging Saturn – Amateurism as a Critical Method of Art Making, in "Practices: As if from nowhere…artists' thoughts about research-creation", Review d'art canadienne Canadian Art Review (RACAR), vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 2014)
  • 2014 29.42 years: a cosmically time-based ongoing project at the Universities Art Association Conference panel titled Almost, But Not Quite: The Incomplete Artist's Project chaired by Jenn Laww, University of Toronto, 2014
  • 2014 Fumbling Through the Cosmos: amateur astronomy as a critical method of making art at Science Pub Series 2014-2015, Faculties of Art, Science, Engineering, University of Regina and the Dunlop Art Gallery
  • 2014 Imaging Saturn, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, May
  • 2014 Risa Horowitz – Respondent/provocateur the "Research-Creation Think Tank." Convened by Dr Natalie Loveless at the University of Alberta March 23–26
  • 2014 Some Other Kind of Creative Practitioner: navigating the function and purpose of the practice-based visual arts PhD, panel presenter (Just What is it that Makes Studio PhDs so Different, so Appealing? Convened by Laura Gonzalez), College Art Association Conference, Chicago
  • 2013 Art Practice, Practice-Based Research, Research-Creation….What's the Difference? Panel Convenor and Presenter, with juried speaker Dr. Natalie Loveless and invited discussion moderator Rachelle Viader Knowles, University Art Association Conference, Banff Centre, Alberta
  • 2012 Disciplining Art Practice: Getting a Feel for the Game, Panel Moderator and Presenter, University Art Association Conference, Concordia University, Montreal

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Trees of Canada". MKG127. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Canada House | Arbutus menzeisii / Arbutus". www.canadahousecollection.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor's artwork added to Canada House collection". University of Regina. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Risa Horowitz CV". RIsa Horowitz. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  5. ^ Horowitz, Risa (2012). Disciplining art practice: work, hobby, and expertise in practice-based scholarship (Blurry Canada, Potager, Scrabble) (Ph.D thesis). York University. OCLC 864657913.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Nifesion, Tobi (February 2, 2016). "Interstellar imaginations come to life". The Manitoban. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Risa Horowitz: Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina". www.uregina.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "New afternoon Artist Talks". Artsy Type. Fine Arts – University of Victoria. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  9. ^ "Risa Horowitz". ArtSci Salon. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  10. ^ Enright, Robert (2011). "Ms. Roadie". Border Crossings. 30 (117).
  11. ^ "Dunlop Art Gallery Exhibitions :: Blurry Canada". www.dunlopartgallery.org. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  12. ^ Horowitz, Risa; Lebedinskaia, Natalia (2012). Risa Horowitz: Blurry Canada. Brandon, Manitoba: Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. ISBN 9781927076033.
  13. ^ Holubizky, Ihor (2008). Practice makes imperfect (I'm perfect). Adelaide: Experimental Art Foundation.
  14. ^ "Trio / Risa Horowitz". Trove (National Library of Australia). Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b Horowitz, Risa (2003). twitch. Ace Art Inc.
  16. ^ Kasprzak, Michelle (2009-06-29). "Creating Spaces: Net Art in the "Real World"". Archived from the original on June 29, 2009. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  17. ^ MacPherson, Colleen (26 August 2000). "Visual arts". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  18. ^ Horowitz, Risa (2000). girl before a mirror (MFA). University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  19. ^ Horowitz, Risa (2000). girl before a mirror (MFA). University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  20. ^ "2006 KM Hunter Charitable Foundation KM Hunter Artist Awards Ontario Arts Council". www.kmhunterfoundation.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
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