Sara Angelucci Explained

Sara Angelucci
Birth Place:Hamilton, Ontario
Nationality:Canadian
Alma Mater:NSCAD University, University of Guelph
Notable Works:Aviary (2013)

Sara Angelucci (born 1962) is a Canadian artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1]

Education

She has a B.A. (Hons.) in Art History and B.F.A in Fine Arts from University of Guelph, and an M.F.A. from NSCAD University.

Work

Angelucci works primarily in photography, video and audio. She has exhibited her photography across Canada including exhibitions at the Art Gallery of York University, Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, and the St. Mary's University Art Gallery in Halifax. Her work has been included in group shows internationally in the United States, Europe, and at the Pingyao Biennale in China.[2]

Angelucci's works explore archival materials such as home movies, snapshots and vintage portraits and their limitations. Her major works include Aviary (2013), an exhibition of avian-morphed, faux-Victorian portrait photography, video and audio in the collection of Art Gallery of York University.[3] [4] The photographs in Aviary embody many themes of the nineteenth century. Born of the domestic realm, they express a conflation of interests where the family photo album, with its role of commemoration, is brought together with natural science and spiritual emanations. Made by combining photographs of endangered or extinct North American birds with anonymous nineteenth century cartes-de-visite portraits—they portray creatures about to become ghosts. Of the two extinct birds featured in the series, the plight of the passenger pigeon is particularly telling. Once the most numerous bird in North America, numbering in the billions, it was wiped out by 1914 through a combination of brutal over-hunting and habitat destruction.[5]

She served as an Artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario from November 2013 to January 2014.[6]

Currently, she is an adjunct professor in Photography at the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University.[7]

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. News: Reid. Robert. Photos explore shifting identities of immigrants. The Record. 15 April 2006.
  2. Web site: Sara Angelucci. AGO Art Gallery of Ontario. 16 September 2015.
  3. News: Milroy. Sarah. Toronto artist Sara Angelucci morphs birds and humans in just-opened exhibition. 17 September 2015. The Globe and Mail. 12 April 2013.
  4. Web site: Foster. John. The Aviary: New Photographs by Sara Angelucci. The Design Observer. 20 September 2015.
  5. Web site: Patrick Mikhail Gallery _ Sara Angelucci.
  6. Web site: Q&A: AGO artist-in-residence Sara Angelucci. Art Matters Blog. 16 September 2015.
  7. Web site: FACULTY IMA . www.imagearts.ryerson.ca.
  8. Web site: SARA ANGELUCCI TAKING FLIGHT. www.patrickmikhailgallery.com. Patrick Mikhail Gallery. 5 March 2016.
  9. Web site: Sara Angelucci: Artist-in-Residence. ago.net. Art Gallery of Ontario. 5 March 2016.
  10. Web site: Whyte. Murray. Connecting contemporary culture to the past at the ROM. thestar.com. 10 December 2014 . The Toronto Star. 5 March 2016.
  11. Web site: Surrey. City of. (Da bao)(Takeout). www.surrey.ca. 21 January 2016. en-US.
  12. Web site: Out There - Sara Angelucci: Provenance Unknown. theagyuisoutthere.org. 21 January 2016.
  13. Web site: Wynick/Tuck Gallery. www.wynicktuckgallery.ca. 5 March 2016.
  14. Web site: Sara Angelucci: Somewhere in Between Art + Design Idea Exchange . ideaexchange.org . 21 January 2016.
  15. Web site: Canadian Photo-Based Art Digital Archive. archive.gallerytpw.ca. 21 January 2016.