rooms or other workspaces. Te Art Bank has been investing in Canadian artists since 1972, and it now has over 17,000 works of art by more than 3,000 artists. Te whole collection is available at low, tax-deductible rates. Koop’s career has developed in paral- lel with the Art Bank, and a wide range of her work from different periods is in the collection. Early works, like Marroon Cloud from 1979, show that even then, Koop was working with an unorthodox colour scheme and a large scale, measuring approximately 9 x 11 feet. In a 2010 interview with art critic Robin Laurence, Koop said that at art school in the 1970s, one of her profes- sors told her she was “taking up too much room.” Tere are also smaller, more intimate
works including sketches by Koop in the Art Bank collection, plus examples of her use of video as a compositional tool starting in the 1990s, as in Evening Without Angels/Video Scroll Poem (1993). All of her work in the collection can be browsed online at the Art Bank’s website (
artbank.ca).
Wanda Koop’s Red Dot. Te year 2016 will be a good one for
Wanda Koop fans. Her work can be seen in the Her Story Today exhibi- tion at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until Aug. 7, and in the Governor General’s Awards exhibition at the Na- tional Gallery of Canada until Sept. 5. Te Art Bank is also working with Ca- nadian Heritage to present a project in Ottawa’s Byward Market that will fea- ture a reproduction of Koop’s painting
Red Dot (1996). Tis work is a strong representation of Koop’s mature style in that it highlights differing approaches to painting, with a landscape partially obscured by the large geometric shape described in its title. Te image will be part of a showcase of work by women artists from the Art Bank collection, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Canada. If you can’t attend any of her current exhibitions, you can always stop by Art City in Winnipeg, a not-for-profit or- ganization that Koop founded in 1998 that has art activities for all ages all year round. You might also be inspired to go online to sort through the Art Bank’s collection and perhaps contact one of their consultants to bring a work by Wanda Koop even closer to you. For more information about the Canada Council Art Bank, please visit
artbank.ca
Wanda Koop’s Flood. 28 • Summer 2016
Michael Davidge is an artist, writer, and independent curator who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. He received an M.A. in English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal and an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Western University in London, On- tario. His writing has appeared online and in numerous Canadian art magazines and exhibition catalogues. He is currently the coordinator of SAW Video’s Cultural En- gineering project, an online video exhibi- tion that explores the impact of urban cul- tural development.
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