Speaker Series: Stephen Andrews

Toronto artist Stephen Andrews reinvents the genre of portraiture. One of his best known works, Facsimile, is comprised of 147 portraits, etched in graphite and oil on beeswax, of people lost to HIV related illnesses. The portraits were based on facsimile transmissions of pictures from the “Proud Lifes” memorial columns of Xtra magazine. These elegant and lyrical works are part of an ongoing meditation on representation. Andrews’ most recent photo-based works overtly mimic cinematography with sequential film-like images. An exhibition of his work opens at the Belkin Gallery on March 23.

The Speaker Series (1989–2006) was a programme of visiting artist talks and lectures. From 2000–2006, talks were co-organized with the Art Now course at ECIAD.