McMichael Canadian Art Collection Presents Margaux Williamson: Interiors
November 6, 2021 to May 8, 2022
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is proud to announce the opening of the new exhibition Margaux Williamson: Interiors on November 6, 2021. This exhibition, featuring the work of Toronto painter, filmmaker, and writer Margaux Williamson (b.1976), presents more than 40 paintings of interior spaces created over the last 15 years. While women artists of the early twentieth century often depicted interiors as places of privacy and domestic quietude, Williamson’s artworks reveal zones of creativity, subjectivity, and anarchic experimentation. At a time when domestic space has become such a central context for daily life, Williamson’s explorations of places that are simultaneously familiar and foreign are particularly poignant. In her vision, space itself appears to misbehave, with spatial ambiguity and dramatic foreshortening often used to suggest places observed in elapsing time, or recalled in memory.
Williamson was born in the city of Pittsburgh, in the United States, before relocating to Toronto. She studied at Queen’s University, and spent a formative semester at the Glasgow School of Art in 1998. Her first book, I Could See Everything, was published in 2014. Williamson has served as the artist in residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Klondike Institute for Arts & Culture, and at MacDowell in New Hampshire.
About the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is an agency of the Government of Ontario and acknowledges the support of the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, and the McMichael Canadian Art Foundation. It is the only major museum in the country devoted exclusively to Canadian art. In addition to touring exhibitions, the McMichael houses a permanent collection of more than 6,500 works by historic and contemporary Canadian artists, including Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven, and their contemporaries, Indigenous artists, and artists from the many diasporic communities. The Gallery is located on 100 acres of forested landscape and hiking trails at 10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg, north of Major Mackenzie Drive in the City of Vaughan.