Carole Itter

Carole Itter is a Canadian artist, writer and filmmaker based in Vancouver.[1]

Life and work

Carole Itter was born in Vancouver on September 29, 1939 where she continues to live and work. Her 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. [2] [3] Carole Itter and her long-time partner, Al Neil, an experimental artist and jazz musician, share a home in Strathcona. Itter is represented in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Vancouver Public Library and the Canada Council Art Bank.

In 1972, Itter had a daughter, Lara, with Vancouver poet, Gerry Gilbert.[4] After battling depression for many years, Lara Gilbert committed suicide in 1995.[5] Itter edited Lara's extensive journals and published them under Lara's name in I Might Be Nothing. [6] With Daphne Marlatt, she compiled and edited a history of Vancouver's Strathcona neighbourhood titled Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End..[7] Their book was republished as Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End in 2011.[8] Other works by the artist include The Log's Log [9] and Whistle Daughter Whistle. [10]

For nearly 50 years, Carole Itter and Al Neil shared a studio, the "Blue Cabin," on the foreshore of Cates Park in Dollarton. This waterfront area had also been home to Malcolm Lowry, Earle Birney, Dorothy Livesay, and Al Purdy. [11] Neil first moved into the cabin in the 1930s when he worked as the informal beach watchman for McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company.[12] The land once owned by McKenzie Barge and Derrick is undergoing development which required Neil and Itter's cabin to be removed from the foreshore. In 2015, with the assistance of Glenn Alteen at Grunt Gallery, Barbara Cole of Other Sights for Artists' Projects,[13] Polygon Homes, Port Metro and many volunteers, the cabin was preserved and moved into secure storage until a permanent location for it could be found.[14]

Selected awards

1989 VIVA (Vancouver Institute of Visual Arts) Award
She has also received awards from the Canada Council of the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council

Exhibitions

1984 Rattles, Western Front
1991 Carole Itter: Where the Streets are Paved with Gold: A Tribute to a Canadian Immigrant Neighbourhood, Vancouver Art Gallery
1994 Carole Itter: Desolate Combination of Objects, Pitt Gallery
1995 The Float, Or Gallery
2000 The Pink Room, Grunt Gallery
2007 Metallic, A Fish Film, Grunt Gallery
2008 Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery
2013 The Piano, Art Gallery of Alberta

References

  1. ↑ Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery; Grunt Gallery. "People / Carole Itter". Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  2. ↑ Lacey, Liam (April 13, 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.
  3. ↑ Laurence, Robin (November 4, 1995). "Carole Itter's found objects float a conservation ethic". Vancouver Sun. p. D5.
  4. ↑ Salem, Alaton (May 19, 1986). "The Video Game Exhibit Marks Colorful Era in Black and White Tapes". The Globe and Mail. p. C12.
  5. ↑ Wigod, Rebecca (July 31, 2004). "Young woman who flirted with danger left a 3,000 page journal". Vancouver Sun. p. F12.
  6. ↑ Gilbert, Lara (2004). I Might Be Nothing. Victoria: Trafford Publishing.
  7. ↑ Itter, Carole; Marlatt, Daphne (1979). Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End. Victoria: Aural History Program, Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Government Services, Provincial Archives.
  8. ↑ Itter, Carole; Marlatt, Daphne (2011). Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing. ISBN 9781550175219.
  9. ↑ Itter, Carol (1973). The Log's Log. Vancouver: Intermedia Press.
  10. ↑ Itter, Carole (1982). Whistle Daughter Whistle. Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press. ISBN 9780920576120.
  11. ↑ Pedri, Jennesia. "Then Came the Condos". Geist. 96. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  12. ↑ Sandborn, Tom (January 24, 2015). "Home is where the art is: Fight is on to preserve cabin that sheltered and inspired Al Neil and Carole Itter". Vancouver Sun. p. E1.
  13. ↑ Cole, Barbara (January 29, 2015). "The Foreshore Cabin" (Power Point Presentation). Port Metro Vancouver. Other Sites for Artists' Projects.
  14. ↑ Lederman,Marsha (June 22, 2015). "Saved from demolition, historic Vancouver cabin needs a new home". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-03-05.

External links

Memory BC, Lara Gilbert Fonds
Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties / People, Carole Itter
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