Julie Voyce (born 1957)[1] is a Canadian multimedia artist, known for her imaginative imagery,[2] and for printmaking.[3]
Julie Voyce | |
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| Born | 1957 Woodstock, Ontario |
| Education | Fine Art, Ontario College of Art (graduated 1980) |
| Awards | Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmaking Competition (2003); Artist of the Year Award, First Annual Steam Whistle Art Awards, Toronto (2004) |
Career
editVoyce studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, graduating in 1980. She has shown her work since 1979 in unusual and diverse places for an artist, such as, she says, “an exhibition truck, shop windows, Union Station, a Trash Palace, a vending machine, galleries and a tree in Grange Park”.[4] To gain the technical knowledge she needed about printmaking, she became a regular of Open Studio in Toronto in the 1980s.[5] She also studied printmaking with J. C. Heywood.[6]
Her first exhibition in a formal gallery setting was with a show of prints at Mercer Union in Toronto in 1990.[2] In 1996, she showed in an exhibition curated by Stuart Reid and titled Julie Voyce: The Solo Show with a Boutique at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, in which she dealt with the process of aging.[7] She revisited the subject of aging in a group show in which she participated at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 1999.[8] From 1999 till 2002, she showed with Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto, then in 2005, with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, Alberta, and in 2006, in a group show with Apexart in New York.[9][10]
She has also participated in group shows in Montreal; Buffalo, New York;[11] Berlin,[12] Paris, and other places abroad,[4] such as a 2009 show titled Feminine & Formal at Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille[13] in which she showed a series of abstract screen prints (they used a limited range of colours, an idea which she had been expanding on since 2000).[13] Her inspiration was, she said, Dr. Seuss and over time, she developed her signature style of layers of shapes and dots.[13]
In 2012, she did an intervention in an existing phone booth in co-operation with Telephone Booth Gallery, and enhanced it with handmade flowers (the flowers were stolen during the show and replaced with two pennies).[14][15] Since then, her work has been exhibited at Paul Petro Contemporary Art`s Christmas shows (2016, 2017 2018).[12] At the Toronto Art Fair 2020, three linocuts from 2010 by Voyce were acquired by the Art Gallery of Ontario, which already had a collection of 10 artist multiples by her in the Edward P. Taylor Research Library.[16]
Voyce has won several awards such as the Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmaking Competition (2003) and the Artist of the Year Award, First Annual Steam Whistle Art Awards, Toronto (2004).[17]
Her work is in museum collections such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,[18] and the Art Gallery of Mississauga.[9] She is represented by General Hardware Contemporary in Toronto.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Artist/Maker name "Voyce, Julie"". Artists in Canada. Government of Canada. May 14, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
- ^ a b "Visiting Artist Talk with Julie Voyce". Vimeo. Owens Art Gallery. January 4, 2012. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ "Alumni Notes" (PDF). www.ocadu.ca. Sketch, OCAD, spring 2004. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Artist Spotlight: Julie Voyce". AGO Insider. Art Gallery of Ontario. August 18, 2020. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ Hanna, Deirdre (October 11, 2001). "Voyce Steps Up". Now Toronto. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ Jule 1984, p. 76-86.
- ^ Armstrong, John. "Julie Voyce The Solo Show with a Boutique Art Gallery of Mississauga". www.johnarmstrong.ca. C International Contemporary Art 52, Winter 1996/97. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ Podedworny, Carol; Tarswell, Neil (1999). The Poetics of Aging : Gisele Amantea, Naomi London, Arlene Stamp, Julie Voyce. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ^ a b "Julie Voyce". artfacts.net. Artfacts. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ "Gifts go in one direction". apexart.org. Apexart, New York, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ Huntington, Richard. "SO CLOSE, AND YET SO FAR SHOW OF ART WORKS FROM THREE NEARBY CITIES RANGES ALL OVER THE MAP". buffalonews.com. Buffalo News, May 27, 1993.
- ^ a b "Julie Voyce". www.mutualart.com. Mutual Art. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Triangle France presents FEMININE & FORMAL" (PDF). www.trianglefrance.org. Triangle France. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ Vaughan, R.M. "Caves of forgotten dreams". www.theglobeandmail.com. Globe and Mail, Feb 24, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- ^ Kane, Laura. "Telephone booth public art ignites a 'fiery' debate LK". www.thestar.com. Toronto Star, July 12, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- ^ "AGO acquires new works at Art Toronto". ago.ca. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. 2020. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ "Sketch, Alumni notes" (PDF). www.ocadu.ca. OCAD. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ^ "TAF award plate". torontoartsfoundation.org. Toronto Arts Foundation. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
Bibliography
edit- Jule, Walter, ed. (1984). Carl Heywood: An Interview, Print Voice: A Publication on Printmaking. Edmonton, Alberta: Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- Vivid : Karen Azoulay, Jordan Broadworth, Angela Leach, Scott Silverthorn, Julie Voyce. Waterloo, Ont.: University of Waterloo Art Gallery. 2004.