January 27th – March 22nd, 2025
Creative Campus Gallery
Hazel McCallion Campus
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 8 from 2-4 pm
Richard Sewell: Reflective Occurrences showcases prints from Richard Sewell’s career as a printmaker. The artworks come from “suites” and single prints, created between 1975 and 1984.
Up to 1975, Sewell’s approach was based on generally accepted principles of printmaking. He began to question these established views and introduced procedures, techniques and materials not usually associated with the print medium to his work. By 1980, Sewell developed a format where he used printed elements in his work from paper to 35 mm. film negative. He was seeing printmaking as an organizational medium that does not have a style or personalized way of putting an image together.
Sewell’s work is conceptually driven and deals with the nature of printmaking and generally to the way we receive information.
Richard Sewell (b. 1942) co-founded Open Studio, the artist-run printmaking centre in Toronto, in 1970 and has been active in the Canadian cultural landscape since. Sewell has made and helped others to make over 160,000 images: with his students, with artists in printing and publishing, in collaborations with photographers, dancers, composers and musicians. He has taught at several art schools, including the Ontario College of Art and Design, the Alberta College of Art and Design, the University of Saskatoon and Sheridan College. Sewell retired in 2008, Professor Emeritus at Sheridan College.
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