{"id":37223578875,"date":"2024-12-11T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmichael.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=37223578875"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:24:41","slug":"derek-sullivan-field-notes","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/mcmichael.com\/fr\/exposition\/derek-sullivan-field-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Sullivan: Field Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Derek Sullivan: Field Notes
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February 8 – July 1, 2025<\/span><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Derek Sullivan (b. 1976), #166, Out Standing in a Field, A siege of herons<\/em>, 2022\u201323, coloured pencil on Rising Museumboard, 133 x 101.9 cm, courtesy of Scotiabank. \u00a9 Derek Sullivan.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Derek Sullivan (b. 1976), Out Standing in a Field (detail)<\/em>, 2021\u201322, coloured pencil on Rising Museumboard, 133.4 x 101.6 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, purchased with funds from the Dr. Michael Braudo Contemporary Canadian Fund, 2024, 2024\/21.2. \u00a9 Derek Sullivan.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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This solo exhibition highlights a recent body of work by the leading Toronto-based conceptual artist Derek Sullivan. The works were inspired by Sullivan\u2019s twelve-month site-study of Shift<\/em>, a landart work by the American sculptor Richard Serra long-hidden in a field in King, Ontario.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Derek Sullivan (b. 1976), Out Standing in a Field (detail)<\/em>, 2021\u201322, coloured pencil on Rising Museumboard, 133.4 x 101.6 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, purchased with funds from the Dr. Michael Braudo Contemporary Canadian Fund, 2024, 2024\/21.6. \u00a9 Derek Sullivan.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Derek Sullivan (b. 1976), Out Standing in a Field (detail)<\/em>, 2021\u201322, coloured pencil on Rising Museumboard, 133.4 x 101.6 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, purchased with funds from the Dr. Michael Braudo Contemporary Canadian Fund, 2024, 2024\/21.5. \u00a9 Derek Sullivan.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Derek Sullivan (b. 1976), #168, Field Publications<\/em>, 2022\u201323, coloured pencil on Rising Museumboard, 133 x 101.9 cm, courtesy of Susan Hobbs Gallery. \u00a9 Derek Sullivan.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The exhibition features a series of Sullivan\u2019s signature large-scale drawings responding to this important site of international modernism in rural Ontario, not far from where the artist grew up. For Sullivan, walking around the site was central to his research, as was note-taking, taking pictures, collecting stones, and researching in archival collections. His thoughtful drawings consider the history of Serra\u2019s work, and the present context in which it exists.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used Serra\u2019s Shift<\/em> 1970 as an orienting device for me to consider networks of interconnection encountered in this location (colonial expropriation of land, agricultural impacts, property development, tactics of preservation, trespassing, community use, imported artistry), but it also drew forth my own tangled histories in this region,\u201d says Sullivan. \u201cThe project aimed to put Serra in his place, so to speak, whilst better understanding my own.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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About the Exhibition Curator<\/span><\/span><\/h3><\/div>
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John Geoghegan<\/strong> is Associate Curator, Collections and Research at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Prior to joining the McMichael in 2022, he worked as Senior Editor of the Inuit Art Quarterly<\/em>. He has published on various topics of historical and contemporary Canadian art including: Gathie Falk, William Kurelek, Elisapee Ishulutaq, Mary Wrinch, and Kent Monkman. John holds an MA in Art History with a Curatorial Practice Diploma from York University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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