David Gillanders

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David Gillanders was born in Toronto in 1968. He studied at the University of Western Ontario in London and later at McGill University in Montreal. He currently lives and works in Ottawa. Gillanders has exhibited his work in numerous exhibition centers and galleries including the Grand Rapids Art Museum (Michigan, US), the Bedford Gallery (California, US), Galerie Trois Points, Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal, Gallery McClure, Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, and Galerie Port-Maurice, Montreal, as well as at the Stewart Hall art gallery, Pointe Claire, and the John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. His work is part of public collections, namely the Collection de Prêt d’œuvres d’art of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Québec and the Collection Loto-Québec. 

As central to his art practice, Gillanders considers the gap between existence and our perception of it. He works with elements found in our surrounding environment that we often ignore by choice or omission. The immeasurable space between the world around us and the idea we make of it is the starting point of his work.

His canvases invite us viewers to question what we see and push us to ask ourselves why we misunderstand particular elements in our lives. His works embody a world where everything remains unfixed and interchangeable – an incomplete world composed of ambiguous fragments. Flashes of recognition are balanced by zones of abstraction as viewers’ apparent certainties are replaced by a realm of uncertainties..

 
2011Vie des Arts |
 Sur la piste de nouveaux talents | 1 janvier
 
2010Catalogue d'exposition, Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal | Rafael Sottolichio
 L'anti-sublime | 2 septembre
 
2009Catalogue d'exposition, Art Gallery of Northumberland | Dominic Hardy
 Closer to the Sun: David Gillanders’ Paintings of Flight | 3 octobre
 
2007THE GAZETTE | Henry Lehmann
 On the border of the natural and unnatural worlds | 13 janvier
 
2007The Westmount Examiner# | Stephanie Bento
 Gillanders’s ‘Blind Spot’ challenges perspective | 7 janvier
 

New acquisitions of Collection Loto-Québec & David Gillanders in Vie des Arts

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

An article in Vie des Arts about the most recent acquisitions of Collection Loto-Québec, featuring a David Gillanders' piece that you can read here ! 
Gillander Saint Elois field

David Gillanders enters Loto-Quebec art collection

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

It is with the greatest pleasure that we annoucne that works from painter David Gillanders were recently acquired by Collection Loto-Québec who celebrated this year its 30th anniversary. The piece Saint Eloi's Field is now part of this important Quebec institutional collection, as well as  Dawn of Reconaissance I and Dawn of Reconnaissance II, all works from 2009.