Erica Rutherford : her lives and works = ses vies, ses œuvres / edited by Pan Wendt = sous la direction de Pan Wendt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rutherford, Erica, artist.

Contributor:

Wendt, Pan, 1971- editor, writer of added commentary.

Confederation Centre Art Gallery, issuing body.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Rutherford, Erica--Exhibitions.

Rutherford, Erica.

Women painters--Canada--Exhibitions.

Women painters.

Trans artists--Canada--Exhibitions.

Trans artists.

Painting, Canadian.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

173 pages : colour illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane Editions ; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island : Confederation Centre Art Gallery, [2025]

Language Note:

Text in English and French.

Summary:

"The struggle to realize and to express my nature is my life's meaning." -- Erica Rutherford. Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works accompanies a career-spanning retrospective exhibition of this multidisciplinary Canadian artist and transgender pioneer. An artist, actor, filmmaker, farmer, teacher, and writer, Erica Rutherford's remarkably multifaceted career took her across several countries and continents before settling on Prince Edward Island in the 1970s. Born in the United Kingdom, she worked in the UK, South Africa, Spain, and the US, before settling in PEI. There she established herself as a painter and printmaker, using art to engage in a reflection on gender construction and agency. This remarkable retrospective includes reproductions of more than 60 paintings, prints, and drawings, as well as personal photographs. An interview with Rutherford's widow, artist Ambika Gail Rutherford, accompanies critical essays by scholars and curators examining Rutherford's stylistic evolution from dark semi-abstract collages to hard-edged Pop Art. Says editor and curator Pan Wendt, "In retrospect, Rutherford's work represents a courageous and often solitary mission of working through questions that are only now part of the mainstream public discourse."-- Provided by publisher.

"The struggle to realize and to express my nature is my life's meaning.” — Erica Rutherford Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works accompanies a career-spanning retrospective exhibition of this multidisciplinary Canadian artist and transgender pioneer. An artist, actor, filmmaker, farmer, teacher, and writer, Erica Rutherford's remarkably multifaceted career took her across several countries and continents before settling on Prince Edward Island in the 1970s. Born in the United Kingdom, she worked in the UK, South Africa, Spain, and the US, before settling in PEI. There she established herself as a painter and printmaker, using art to engage in a reflection on gender construction and agency. This remarkable retrospective includes reproductions of more than 60 paintings, prints, and drawings, as well as personal photographs. An interview with Rutherford's widow, artist Ambika Gail Rutherford, accompanies critical essays by scholars and curators examining Rutherford’s stylistic evolution from dark semi-abstract collages to hard-edged Pop Art. Says editor and curator Pan Wendt, “In retrospect, Rutherford's work represents a courageous and often solitary mission of working through questions that are only now part of the mainstream public discourse."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Kevin Rice and Jean-François Bélisle

Erica Rutherford: Her lives and works / Pan Wendt

Erica Rutherford, South Africa, and the making of 'African Jim' / Peter Davis

The Diver / John Geoghegan

Erica Rutherford: A foreigner everywhere / Ray Cronin

She want: 'The Infant Offering' / Eva Hayward

Interviews with Gail Rutherford / Pan Wendt

Acknowledgements

Biographical highlights

Contributors

List of works.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Co-published by: Confederation Centre Art Gallery.

Contains:

Erica Rutherford (2025)

Erica Rutherford (2025). French

ISBN:

9781773104577

1773104578

OCLC:

1492202865

Online:

French equivalent / Équivalent français