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The Oakville Beaver, Friday February 3, 2006 - 29 A personal connection Artist celebrated regionalsensibility By Michael Maynard SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER From Jan. 27 - March 25, The Oakville Beaver will publish a series of contributed articles for Oakville Addresses, a new public program at Oakville Galleries. We asked a variety of local Oakviiiians, both teens and adults, to write a short essay on their favourite artwork from Oakville Galleries' per manent collection. Today's article is by Michael Maynard, the Associate Dean of Arts, Animation and Design at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. He writes about the work of Greg Curnoe. Oakville Addresses is a complementary pro gram to the exhibition Addressing Oakville, on at Centennial Square, 120 Navy St until March 26. ; ;. §K P iv tt$ · ip s |v 'S v V · l l ' My personal connection with the artist Greg Curnoe and his Mariposa T.T. goes back to the summer of 1968. I was 17 years old and had just finished my first year at the Rhode Island School of Design. America was being torn apart over its involvement in Vietnam, so with sketchbook in hand I left college, family and New England and headed north to Canada. After hitch-hiking to the Pacific and back, I ended up in the London, Ontario studio of Greg Curnoe through a mutual friend, Selwyn Dewdney, the artist and chronicler of aboriginal rock paintings. I remember Curnoe's icono- clastic perspective on my arts school curriculum, his approval of my pen and ink drawing of downtown Montreal, and his clut tered studio with its view of Victoria Hospital. I returned to school and even tually to Canada. It was only then that I began to realize Curnoe's influence on the contemporary art scene. SUBMITTED PHOTO / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Greg Curnoe's Mariposa T.T. Through his love of words and music and bicycles, but most of all through his visual documenta tion of life in London, Curnoe was celebrating a regional sensibility. And in so doing, helping Canadians see their country in a new way. Curnoe died in 1992, struck and killed by a pickup truck while bicycling with friends on a coun try road near his, home. Today, when I look at his Mariposa T.T., I see new and irrev erent artistic technologies (serigraphy on Plexiglas) combined with accomplished draftsman ship. I see a fateful love of bicy cles, and typographic exploration. But perhaps most important to me, the exile from New England, I see Curnoe in his stu dio and I feel keenly his sense of place. Continued from page 27 Anderson, who noted there are many references to change and past in the show, including photographs of the old oil refin ery in Oakville and a kinetic model repre senting the Oakville Basket Company. 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