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Norman Takeuchi, Russell Yuristy and Jennifer Dickson are among the five Ottawa-area artists to be honoured by the Ottawa Art Gallery in a ceremony this month.
The inaugural Artists Investiture Ceremony is designed to commemorate the careers and legacies of prominent artists in the region. Each one is represented in the OAG’s permanent collection and has made a significant contribution to the Canadian arts sector, the gallery said in a release. They are all close to 90 years of age.
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One of the artists, Takeuchi, is the subject of a retrospective on view at the OAG until March 2024, while another, Yuristy, enjoyed the spotlight on his work in 2020 during his first solo show in more than a decade.
Of the others, Dickson is an outspoken photo-based artist who immigrated to Canada from South Africa in 1969, Duncan de Kergommeaux, born in British Columbia and based in Chelsea, has spent his career balancing abstraction and representation, and Michael Sproule is an Ottawa-born landscape painter inspired by geological formations and the transforming role of nature over time.
The quintet will be honoured during an invitation-only Investiture Ceremony at the OAG on Nov. 30. The event is part of the gallery’s 35th-anniversary celebrations; it’s also the fifth anniversary in the new building at Arts Court.
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