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<<< / The Human Touch
January 19 - April 28, 2013
The Human Touch
Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection

Stimulating. Challenging. Engaging.  These are just a few adjectives that aptly describe RBC Wealth Management’s art collection.

 

With the human figure as its focus, the collection reflects the rich cultural diversity and complexity of contemporary society. From realistic to abstract, serious to whimsical, its works of art offer a breadth of approaches and subjects. Appropriation, performance, and digital manipulation are but a handful of the strategies deployed in the creation of these artworks; and hybrid racial identities, family dynamics, and ethnic heritage but a few of the complicated topics they tackle.

 

Made by both established artists—John Baldessari, Kerry James Marshall, and Ann Hamilton—and those rising in their careers—Luis Gispert, Chen Qiulin, and Michael Vasquez—the selections in this exhibition present a cross-section of identity that mirrors who we are and how we live today.


Organized by RBC Wealth Management. Curated by Donald McNeil.



Roland Fischer, Untitled (L.A. Portrait), 1994-2000. Chromogenic print and acrylic on fiberboard, 55 ½ x 63 ¾ inches. Collection of RBC Wealth Management. © Roland Fischer. Photo: Ben Saltzman

Kehinde Wiley, Passing/Posing #15, 2002. Oil and enamel on canvas, 56 x 48 inches. Collection of RBC Wealth Management. Image courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago © Kehinde Wiley

John Baldessari, Noses & Ears, Etc.: The Gemini Series: One Face (Three Versions) with Nose, Ear, and Glasses, 2006. Screen print, 34 ¾ x 76 ¾ x 3 inches. Collection of RBC Wealth Management. Image courtesy of the artist © John Baldessari.

iona rozeal brown, Untitled (Female), 2003. Screen print, ed. 3/35, 34 ¾ x 27 ¼ inches. Collection of RBC Wealth Management. Image courtesy of G Fine Art © iona rozeal brown

Kerry James Marshall, Blind Ambition, 1990. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 84 x 55 inches. Collection of RBC Wealth Management. Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York © Kerry James Marshall
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