This integrated art and architecture, public art project, incorporates colour photographic imagery on 217 exterior windows surrounding the building.
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Alberi di Murano (Trees of Murano)
Barbara Astman
b. 1950
- Glass |
- 2010
- 37 Grosvenor Street, Toronto
About the artwork
About the artist
For over four decades, Barbara Astman has explored a wide range of photo-based media and produced work, which has received national and international recognition.
She is represented in important public, corporate, and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Deutche Bank, New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Her artist’s archives are held in the E.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives, AGO.
Astman has been included in major group exhibitions, such as: Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989 (AGO, 2016), Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism (McMaster Museum of Art, 2016), Look Again: Colour Xerography Art Meets Technology (AGO, 2015), Herland, (60 Wall Gallery, New York 2014), Light My Fire Part I: Some Propositions about Portraits and Photography (AGO, 2013), and Beautiful Fictions (AGO, 2009), among many others. Astman was commissioned to create a photographic installation (The Fossil Book) for the inaugural exhibition at the new Koffler Gallery (Toronto, 2013).
Astman has degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsmen, and Ontario College of Art. She has also been a professor at OCAD University since 2001.
Fun facts
- As well as being an internationally recognized artist, Barbara Astman feels proudly Canadian and dreams to integrate one of her public artworks on the shores of Lake Ontario.
Engagement questions
- How can public art reactivate a space and make it special? What’s role does public art play in bringing communities together?
- How can artworks create a bridge between private spaces and the public realm to make Toronto’s streets friendlier?