Sandra Meigs Wins National Award - Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
Program, P.2332
- Identifier
- P.2332
- Category
- Visual Arts
- Date
- March 25, 2015
- Description
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Congratulate Sandra Meigs—winner of the 2015 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts!
Meigs is an iconic artist who reshaped the philosophical terrain of painting in an era that maligned painting. She pushes painting to its limits, both physically—when her work shifts into the realm of sculpture—and conceptually when her mark making walks a thin line between abstraction and figuration.
Sandra Meigs’ art has attracted critical acclaim for the past three decades. Pulling from philosophical texts, theory, popular culture, music and poetry, Meigs imbues her art with disarming humour. She is an astute risk taker, whose work is led by a feral imagination.