<p><b>\u201cThe struggle to realize and to express my nature is my life\u2019s meaning.\u201d \u2014 Erica Rutherford <\/b><\/p><p><i>Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works<\/i> accompanies a career-spanning retrospective exhibition of this multidisciplinary Canadian artist and transgender pioneer. <\/p><p>An artist, actor, filmmaker, farmer, teacher, and writer, Erica Rutherford\u2019s remarkably multifaceted career took her across several countries and continents before settling on Prince Edward Island in the 1970s. There she established herself as a painter and printmaker, using art to engage in a reflection on gender construction and agency. <\/p><p>This remarkable retrospective includes reproductions of more than 60 paintings, prints, and drawings, as well as personal photographs. An interview with Rutherford\u2019s widow, artist Gail Rutherford, accompanies critical essays by scholars and curators examining Rutherford\u2019s stylistic evolution from dark semi-abstract collages to hard-edged Pop Art. Says editor and curator Pan Wendt, \u201cIn retrospect, Rutherford\u2019s work represents a courageous and often solitary mission of working through questions that are only now part of the mainstream public discourse.\u201d <\/p><p><b>Ma vie trouve son sens dans le combat que je m\u00e8ne pour comprendre et exprimer ma vraie nature. <br>\u2014 Erica Rutherford<\/b><\/p><p><i>Erica Rutherford : sa vie, son \u0153uvres<\/i> accompagne la r\u00e9trospective consacr\u00e9e \u00e0 la carri\u00e8re de cette artiste canadienne multidisciplinaire, pionni\u00e8re parmi les personnes trans. <\/p><p>Art pictural, arts de la sc\u00e8ne, production cin\u00e9matographique, agriculture, enseignement, litt\u00e9rature : autant de disciplines qui ont men\u00e9 Erica Rutherford dans de nombreux pays et sur plusieurs continents avant son installation \u00e0 l\u2019\u00cele-du-Prince-\u00c9douard dans les ann\u00e9es 1970. Rutherford privil\u00e9gie finalement la peinture, qui lui permet de s\u2019engager dans une r\u00e9flexion complexe sur la construction du genre et la puissance d\u2019agir. <\/p><p>Outre la reproduction des 75 peintures, estampes, dessins et photographies personnelles qui composent la r\u00e9trospective, cet ouvrage remarquable propose une entrevue avec l\u2019artiste Gail Rutherford, partenaire d\u2019Erica Rutherford, des essais critiques au fil desquels universitaires et conservateurs relatent l\u2019\u00e9volution stylistique d\u2019Erica Rutherford depuis de sombres collages semi-abstraits jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019association hard edge et pop art. Pour Pan Wendt, commissaire de l\u2019exposition, \u00ab il appara\u00eet maintenant que l\u2019\u0153uvre d\u2019Erica Rutherford est l\u2019expression d\u2019une mission poursuivie avec courage et souvent dans la solitude : celle de sonder des questions qui se font \u00e0 peine jour sur la place publique \u00bb. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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