Join us on June 18 for the launch of Joyce Wieland: Heart On, a richly illustrated 288-page catalogue, co-published by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Goose Lane Editions. Remarks from curators and contributors begin at 6:30 pm. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing. This is a free event, happening in the AGO’s Robert Harding Hall, on the Concourse Level.

After remarks visitors are invited to view the exhibition, located on the 5th floor. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Joyce Wieland: Heart On offers a comprehensive view of Wieland’s multifaceted career as a painter, experimental filmmaker, and cultural activist. With her seductive wit as a powerful tool of social and political critique, Wieland embedded disruptive and unexpected elements and imagery in her work with compelling effect.

Richly illustrated with more than 250 reproductions, Joyce Wieland: Heart On includes texts by curators, scholars, and artists, as well as personal reflections from Wieland’s friends and collaborators. Archival materials, an extensive chronology, and passages from Wieland’s own writings offer a new understanding of the artist’s extraordinary career and the social and political context in which she was creating.

Anne Grace is a Curator, Modern Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Georgiana Uhlyarik is the Fredrik S. Curator of Canadian Art and Co-Lead of the Indigenous + Canadian Art Department, Art Gallery of Ontario.

Published by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts with Goose Lane Editions. Also available in a French edition.