Carol Elaine Barbour
Research Project: Visual Reconstructions of the Tabula Cebetis, ca.1500 – 1600
Artist book combining text, drawings, and paintings of the Tabula Cebetis
Poetry manuscript “Serpentine Flute”
Education
Turing Scheme/Erasmus Programme. École pratiques des hautes études, Sorbonne, Paris, 2022
M.A. History of Art, University of Toronto (Renaissance Art)
B.A. Hon., High distinction. University of Toronto (History of Art and Visual Studies)
Ontario College of Art (Associate degree)
Conference Presentations
“The Tabula Cebetis in France: 1497 – 1543″ Society for Emblem Studies Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, 2022 (Online)
“Arundel 317: Interwoven in Text and Images” Rhetoric Session. Renaissance Society of America, Dublin, 2022
“Spirals, Ropes, and Globes: Emblematic Time.” Emblem Studies Session, International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, 2021
“Peregrination of Human Life: Emblems of Choice.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, St. Louis, 2019
“A World Under Pressure: The Globe in Montenay’s Emblèmes ou devises chrestiennes.” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2019
“Sacred Emblems in Jesuit Sermons: From Aresi’s Delle Sacre Imprese to Bovio’s Rhetoricae Suburbanum.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Albuquerque, USA, 2018
“Rebuilding the Temple in Georgette de Montenay’s Emblèmes.” International Congress of Medieval Studies. The Society of Emblem Studies. Kalamazoo, USA, 2018
“Fit for a Queen of Reform: Georgette de Montenay’s Emblèmes.” Biblyon, livre et création littéraire à Lyon au XVIe siècle. Lyon, France, 2017
“Fortuna’s Role in the Tabula Cebetis.” 11th International Society for Emblem Studies Conference. Nancy, France, 2017
“Emblems Turned Upside Down: Tabula Cebetis and Allegories of an Unbridled World.” Renaissance Society of America. Chicago, USA. The Society for Emblem Studies, 2017
Publications
“The Artist’s Frame of Reference in Antoine Sucquet’s Via Vita Aeternae.” In Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe, 1500 to 1700. Edited by Arthur J. DiFuria and Walter S. Melion, 93-119. (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021) https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004462069_004
“Althernal Walk.” Scintilla: The Journal of the Vaughan Association, No. 23. Edited by Joseph Sterrett
“Tree of Jezebel.” Acta Victoriana 144.1, Victoria College, University of Toronto
“Vow.” Draft 14.1. Toronto: Draft Reading Series, 2018
Infrangible: Poems. Edited by Michael Mirola and Elana Wolff. Toronto, Buffalo: Guernica Editions, 2018. More Information
“Manitoulin Sediment.” Poetry Super Highway. Edited by Rick Lupert, online, 2018
“Matera, Basilicata; Neurology; Spoke.” Nine Muses Poetry. Edited by Annest Gwilym, online, 2018
“Spider Wars.” National Poetry Month, Angel House. Edited byAmanda Earl, online April 29, 2018
“Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Self Portrait.” Ekphrastic Review. Edited by Lorette C. Luzajic, Toronto, online journal, 2016.
“Finding without looking.” Canthius. Edited by Clare Farley and Cira Nickel, 2016. Read
“Forced Beauty” and “Untitled.” Sein und Werden: Corpus. Edited by Rachell Kendall, Manchester, UK, online Journal, Feb. 2016
“Viral Load.” TransVerse14: Gold Rush/Human Resources: Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto Read
“J.E.H. MacDonald: Designs for Reading.” In The Group of Seven Project, 1920-2005. Edited by Dennis Reid et al, 79-81. Toronto: Ontario Association of Art Galleries
“Farewell to Woodsyman.” The Fiddlehead, edited by Ross Leckie, no. 242: 89
“Excrete.” The Toronto Quarterly, no. 6: 56
Reading the Face: Portraits. Exhibition catalogue and curatorial essay. Edited by Gordon Haat, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON., 2000
“Second Reading: Body Works, essay on artist Jeanie Thib.” Matriart: a Canadian Feminist Art Journal 5, no. 4 (1995), Gender/Identity issue, edited by Linda Abraham, 8-11
“Crafting the Psyche: Picking up the Pieces: Quilted Stories” Matriart: a Canadian Feminist Art Journal: Art/Craft hierarchy issue 4, no. 4 (1994), edited by Linda Abraham, 32-7
“Jeannie Thib: Survival Tips” Artword (Spring/Summer, 1994): 24-25
“What Do I Believe In? Interview with artist Lisa Neighbour” Artword (Fall, 1993): 5-6
“Posted Her Incoherent Epistle,” essay in Resources for Feminist Research: Writing and Literature issue 21, no. 3-4 (1992): 16
“Discount Goddess,” photocopy artwork in ISCA: The International Society of Copier Artists 11, no 2 (1992)
“Interruption, Interrogation, Interpretation” Cold City Fiction: Impulse. Edited by Eldon Garnet and Judith Doyle, 1986
Artist Books
Alter Pieces. Carol Barbour: Toronto, 2019
Running to the Tower: an artist writing on her paintings, 1997
Votive Spindle Whorl, 1993
Slips of Nature, 1991
The Wind People, 1990
Damaged Goods, 1984. Co-authored with William Basso.
Books collected by National Gallery of Canada (Art Metropole Collection), University of Western Ontario, York University, University of Toronto (E.J. Pratt), Woman’s Art Library/Goldsmiths at University of London, British Library, Franklin Furnace Collection, ArtTexte, Banff Centre Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Columbia College, and others.
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
Vienna Art Book Fair, 2019
Fanzineist, Vienna, 2019. Artist Talk
Summer Group Exhibition, Secret Handshake Gallery, Toronto, 2019
Do I know you? Alter Pieces, Paintings and Heads. Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, 2018
Framed by Feminists, Gladstone Hotel, 2018.
Their Stories: Unidentified Portraits from the Thomas Bouckley Collection at Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2016. Portrait: A Lapsed Jesuit
Whimsical Architecture at University of Guelph at Humber College Art Gallery, 2006. More
Pilgrimage at John P. Robarts Library at University of Toronto, 2002
Paintings of Places Known and Beyond at AWOL Gallery, 2000
A Thin Black Line at Artword Gallery, 2000
Windbags at The Music Gallery, 1997
Away at OO Gallery, 1995
Paintings (1993); Towers and Bridges (1996); Ingresso (1998) at Red Head Gallery
Bookworks at Harbourfront Gallery, 1993
Bookworks, AKA Artists’ Centre, Saskatoon, SK, 1993
Red Head Light at Grunt Gallery, 1993
View: Paintings and Books at Samuel J. Zacks Gallery at York University, 1993
Small Press Centre Book Fair at the Mechanics Institute, New York City, 1991
Learn to Read Art: Art Metropole at Basel Art Print Fair, 1991
Kaläzh: Carol Barbour and Cynthia Lorenz at Alma Gallery, 1990
Mixed Media at Cambridge Galleries, 1990
What Strange Weather we are Having Lately… at the Goëthe Institute, 1988
Paintings: Carol Barbour and Sheilagh Buck at Kozak Art Gallery, 1986
Five Women Painters at Studio 620, 1984
Painting Beyond the Zone at Art Resource Centre, 1984
Edifice, Orifice at Chromozone Gallery, 1981
Sacristy at Gallery 76, Ontario College of Art, 1980
Student Exhibition, Royal Bank of Canada, 1980.
Curatorial Work
Gallery and Exhibits Curator, TD Gallery, Special Collections, Toronto Reference Library. 2004-2018. A selection of exhibitions: Group of Seven: Style and Design (2006), Drawn Out Stories: The Art of Graphic Novels (2006), Animals are allowed in the Library (2006), Circus Comes to Town (2008).
Guest Curator, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON. Reading the Face: Portraits, 2000
Grants and Awards
Turing Scheme/Erasmus Programme. Écoles pratiques des hautes études, Sorbonne, Paris, 2022
Student Travel Fund (RSA Conference), Warburg Institute, 2022
Dean’s List, University of Toronto, 2012
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance, 1984 – 1995
Ontario Arts Council, Writer’s Reserve, 1981, 1986.
I.O.D.E. Scholarship Award, Ontario College of Art, 1980
Memberships
International Council of Museums, Renaissance Society of America, Italian Art Society, The Society for Emblem Studies, Historians of Netherlandish Art, Association of Print Scholars, League of Canadian Poets.
Former member of the collectives: Red Head Gallery, Toronto Small Press Group, Work Seen/Artword (Editorial), and Matriart (Editorial).
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