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Carole Itter
BornSeptember 29, 1939
Vancouver, Canada
Known forSculptor, Writer, Performance artist, Filmmaker, Photographer
AwardsVIVA (Vancouver Institute of Visual Arts) Award (1989); Audain Prize in Visual Art (2017)

Carole Itter (born September 29, 1939)[1][2] is a Canadian artist, writer, performer and filmmaker.[3][4]

Life

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Itter attended the Vancouver School of Art in 1961,[5] which was renamed as the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1978 and then renamed again to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2008. She later became an instructor at the university.[6] She attended the L'Accademia di Bella Arti in Rome in 1964. Itter lived with her partner, Al Neil, in a structure known as The Blue Cabin, originally built in 1932 and located near Cates Park in North Vancouver.[7] The Blue Cabin was restored and moved to False Creek to serve as a floating artist-in-residency in 2019.[8][9]

Career

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Itter's sculptures, assemblages, collages, installations, performances and writings are strongly influenced by the people and places where she has lived, and frequently reflect social and political issues.[10][11] She herself is represented in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Vancouver Public Library and the Canada Council Art Bank.[12]

Art

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Itter's 1972 piece, Personal Baggage has been described as a key work in Vancouver art. This piece acted to shift art from the gallery setting into the physical world by removing a cedar log from Roberts Creek, British Columbia, disassembling it, and then transporting it to Lockeport, Nova Scotia where it was reassembled.[13] This process was documented by Itter and published in a book entitled The Log's Log.[14]

Her 1979 photo series Euclid, documents her partner, Al Neil, tracing geometric figures in the sand of Cates Park in North Vancouver. These photographs were then projected onto one of Neil's live piano performances and used as cover art for his album Fog and Boot.[15]

In 1994, Itter collaborated with Luke Blackstone and Al Neil on her installation of found objects emerging from an antique organ that were painted and gilded for her exhibit Where the Streets are Paved with Gold: A Tribute to a Canadian Immigrant Neighbourhood. Itter claimed she was inspired by immigrants in her Vancouver community who shared their experiences of Canada with her, calling it "a place where the streets were paved with gold."[16]

Writing

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In 1972, Itter had a daughter, Lara, with Vancouver poet, Gerry Gilbert.[17] After battling depression for many years, Lara Gilbert died by suicide in 1995.[18] Itter edited Lara's extensive journals and published them under Lara's name in I Might Be Nothing.[18][19] Between 1978 and 1979, with Daphne Marlatt, Itter compiled and edited a history of Vancouver's Strathcona neighbourhood titled Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End.[20] Their book was republished as Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End in 2011.[21] Other works by Itter include The Log's Log [22] and Whistle Daughter Whistle.[23] Her writing has also been featured in literary magazines such as Room of One's Own.[24]

Selected awards

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In 1989 Itter received the VIVA (Vancouver Institute of Visual Arts) Award.[25] In 2017 she received the Audain Prize in Visual Art.[26]

Selected exhibitions

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1984, Rattles, Western Front[3][27]
1991, Carole Itter: Where the Streets are Paved with Gold: A Tribute to a Canadian Immigrant Neighbourhood, Vancouver Art Gallery[28][16]
1994, Carole Itter: Desolate Combination of Objects, Pitt Gallery[27][29]
1995, The Float, Or Gallery[27][30]
1999, The Pink Room, grunt gallery[27][31]
2007, Metallic: A Fish Film, grunt gallery[27][32]
2008, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery[33]
2013, The Piano, Art Gallery of Alberta[34][35]
2015, The Poetics of Space, Vancouver Art Gallery[36]
2015-16, Between Object and Action, Transforming Media in the 1960s and 70s, Vancouver Art Gallery[37]
2019, Beginning with the Seventies: Radial Change, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery[38]
2020, Art at Home Live, Vancouver Art Gallery[39]
2023, Carole Itter: Only when I’m hauling water do I wonder if I’m getting any stronger, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery[40][41]

References

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  1. ^ "Artist/Maker name "Itter, Carole"". Government of Canada. 17 October 2012. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  2. ^ Smith, Janet (5 April 2017). "Artist Carole Itter to receive Audain Prize". The Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on 12 April 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b "People / Carole Itter". Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  4. ^ Rantanen, Maria (16 November 2018). "Cineworks presents an evening of Carole Itter films". North Shore News. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Alumni from 1960 - 1979". Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. Academic Calendar 1999-2000". Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. 1999–2000. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  7. ^ Griffin, Kevin (17 February 2021). "Historic Vancouver piano makes music again in The Blue Cabin". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 22 September 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Historic North Vancouver cabin reborn as artist residency in False Creek". CBC News. 25 August 2019. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  9. ^ "The Blue Cabin – Floating Artist Residency". The Blue Cabin. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  10. ^ Lacey, Liam (13 April 1991). "Art review: Carole Itter's installation piece is an iconic tribute to a Vancouver district's immigrants that evokes a particular sense of place". The Globe and Mail. p. C13.
  11. ^ Laurence, Robin (4 November 1995). "Carole Itter's found objects float a conservation ethic". Vancouver Sun. p. D5.
  12. ^ "Art At Home Live | Carole Itter". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2020. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  13. ^ Watson, Scott (1983). "Terminal City: Place, Culture, and the Regional Inflection - From Vancouver Art and Artists: 1931-1983". The Canadian Art Database. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  14. ^ "Talk: Carole Itter and Devon Knowles part of Geometry of Knowing". Simon Fraser University Gallery. 2015. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  15. ^ "Exhibition: Geometry of Knowing, SFU Galleries". Evan Lee. 9 January 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  16. ^ a b "Where the Streets are Paved with Gold: A Tribute to a Canadian Immigrant Neighbourhood". Open Space. 1994. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  17. ^ Salem, Alaton (19 May 1986). "The Video Game Exhibit Marks Colorful Era in Black and White Tapes". The Globe and Mail. p. C12.
  18. ^ a b Wigod, Rebecca (31 July 2004). "Young woman who flirted with danger left a 3,000 page journal". Vancouver Sun. p. F12.
  19. ^ Gilbert, Lara (2004). I Might Be Nothing. Victoria: Trafford Publishing.
  20. ^ Itter, Carole; Marlatt, Daphne (1979). Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End. Victoria: Aural History Program, Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Government Services, Provincial Archives.
  21. ^ Itter, Carole; Marlatt, Daphne (2011). Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End: Strathcona. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing. ISBN 9781550175219. OCLC 704032335.
  22. ^ Itter, Carol (1973). The Log's Log. Vancouver: Intermedia Press. OCLC 213825692.
  23. ^ Itter, Carole (1982). Whistle Daughter Whistle. Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press. ISBN 9780920576120. OCLC 11101653.
  24. ^ "Room's 40th Anniversary Anthology". Room. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  25. ^ Godley, Elizabeth (24 May 1989). "Prize winner calls for grants for B.C. artists". Vancouver Sun. pp. C5. Itter, who constructs enormous sculptures from found objects, was Tuesday named one of two recipients of $10,000 awards from the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts (VIVA).
  26. ^ Griffin, Kevin (19 September 2017). "Carole Itter receives 2017 Audain Prize in visual arts". Vancouver Sun (published 5 April 2017). Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  27. ^ a b c d e Saloman, Gabriel (2016). "Carole Itter - Gray Rattle" (PDF). Surrey Art Gallery. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  28. ^ Itter, Carole; Richardson, Joan Olivia (1991). Where the Streets are Paved with Gold, a Tribute to a Canadian Immigrant Neighbourhood, March 29-May 20, 1991. Vancouver Art Gallery. ISBN 978-1-895442-04-5 – via Google Books.
  29. ^ "Carole Itter: Desolate Combination of Objects with Long Assemblage". UNIT/PITT. 23 March 2011. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  30. ^ "The Float, Carole Itter, 21 October–18 November 1995". Or Gallery. 1995. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  31. ^ "The Pink Room". grunt gallery. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  32. ^ "Metallic: A Fish Film". grunt gallery. Archived from the original on 27 November 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  33. ^ "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2008. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  34. ^ "The Piano". MutualArt.com. 2013. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  35. ^ "The Piano". Art Museum at the University of Toronto. 2015. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  36. ^ "From the Collection - The Poetics of Space". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2015. Archived from the original on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  37. ^ "Between Object and Action: Transforming Media in the 1960s and 70s". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2015. Archived from the original on 21 July 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  38. ^ "Beginning with the Seventies: Radial Change". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. 2018. Archived from the original on 27 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  39. ^ "Art At Home LIVE | Carole Itter". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2020. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  40. ^ "Carole Itter: Only when I'm hauling water do I wonder if I'm getting any stronger". Galleries West. 28 August 2023. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  41. ^ "The Cinematheque screens artist's short films Carole Itter: Choreography of the Everyday, November 2". Stir. 24 October 2023. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
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Memory BC, Lara Gilbert Fonds
Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties / People, Carole Itter
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