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      • 2026 >
        • ​Nancy Anne McPhee: Highway, Sept. 4-26, 2026
        • ​Natasja Bischoff & Kristy Woudstra: Built & Quilt, Aug. 7-29, 2026
        • Bre Shanahan: Flux Forest, Jul. 3-24, 2026
        • Vick Naresh & Ravinder Ruprai: Gatekeepers, Jun. 2-27, 2026
        • Mark Prier: On Conjuration, Apr. 2-28, 2026
        • John Haney: The Dog that Caught the Car, Mar. 5 - Apr. 12, 2026
        • Brian Kelly: flotsam & jetsam, Jan. 24 - Mar. 1, 2026
      • 2025 >
        • Group Show: One, Two, Three, Dec. 10-23, 2025
        • Stephen Altena and Andrew McPhail: Vignette / Mackenzie Browning: Vessels, Nov. 4-30, 2025
        • Michael Allgoewer: ...being a history of the West (in 7 stations), Sept. 2-28, 2025
        • Adam Matak: Keep It Together, Aug. 2-29, 2025
        • Mike Hansen: You caught me singing in the shower, Jul. 1-26, 2025
        • Andrea Carvalho, Kristina Durka, & Matthew Tegel: Porus, Jun. 5-28, 2025
        • Sarah Sproule: Variations on a form, May 3-31, 2025
        • Nancy Anne McPhee and young collaborators: Stagecraft, Apr. 11-29, 2025
        • Natasja Bischoff and Nathan Eugene Carson: Connect, Mar. 1-29, 2025
        • Nathan Eugene Carson, Christopher Reid Flock, Veneda Jane, Maureen Locke, Ryan Nesbitt, & Laura Wagner: Progressions: A dialogue in clay, Feb. 1-28, 2025
        • Vick Naresh: You are many faces, Jan. 6-28, 2025
      • 2024 >
        • Breanna Shanahan: Glares from a past / Glances of a future, Nov. 14 - Dec. 1, 2024
        • Angela Busse: Surge + Flow, Oct. 10 - Nov. 5, 2024
        • Mark Prier: Pulp, Sept. 4-28, 2024
        • John Haney: Landfall, Aug. 9-28, 2024
        • Corinne Duchesne: Self-ish, Jul. 3 - Aug. 6, 2024
        • Brian Kelly: Gemini, May 4-30, 2024
        • Stephen Altena: Everything's Gone Green, Jun. 4-30, 2024
        • Matt Walker & Michael Allgoewer: Space Between: Equal Time, Apr. 1-30, 2024
        • Andrew McPhail, Lindy Fyfe, & Urmas Lüüs: Piecework, Mar. 4-31, 2024
        • Adam Matak: All that we wish to stay, Feb 2 - Mar. 1, 2024
        • Natasja Bischoff & Reuben Bischoff-Hadala: Deathinator, Jan. 1-31, 2024
      • 2023 >
        • Kristina Durka, Sarah Sproule, & Laura Brandreth: PART of the FURNITURE, Nov. 3-30, 2023
        • Christopher Reid Flock: The Structures Within, Oct. 1-31, 2023
        • Mothra, Aug. 5-27, 2023
        • Dan Gibbons, Nancy Anne McPhee, Philippa Gibbons, Helena Gibbons: Twilight Craft Table, Jul. 2023
        • Angela Busse: Gore Park: a 3D exploration, Jun. 3-29, 2023
        • Breanna Shanahan: Green Prescriptions and other colours amid boundaries and blades of grass, May 5-28, 2023
        • Vick Naresh: A Sequence of Events, Apr. 1-30, 2023
        • Stephen Altena: Frolic, Mar. 4-31, 2023
        • Brian Kelly: ... for my cat Annie (RIP) a poem, Feb. 2-28, 2023
        • Sarah Kernohan, Gareth Lichty, & Mark Prier: again and again and again, Jan. 6-29, 2023
      • 2022 >
        • Christopher Reid Flock: Shards, Dec. 1-31, 2022
        • Adam Matak: (in)organic, Nov. 2-29, 2022
        • John Haney: Received Wisdom, Oct. 8-30, 2022
        • Andrew McPhail: Boo Who, Jul. 4-30, 2022
        • Jeanne Fries & Sarah Sproule: Veneration, May 2-28, 2022
        • Angela Busse: Urban Interstices, Apr. 2-30, 2022
        • Natasja Bischoff & Nancy Benoy: Nb2, March 2022
        • Andy DeCola, Colin Bowers, Nicholas Zirk, & Cameron Wylie: Lost in the supermarket, Feb. 2022
      • 2021 >
        • Mark Prier: Jubilee, Oct. 2-27, 2021
        • Corinne Duchesne: Your kiss needs more tongue, Mar. 4-28, 2021
      • 2020 >
        • Andrew McPhail, Matthew Varey, & Steve Newberry: Pricks: Men Who Sew, Dec. 5-23, 2020
        • Michael Allgoewer: Marking Time, Nov. 5 - Dec. 3, 2020
        • Adam Matak: Let a Thousand Blossoms Bloom, Oct. 9 - Nov. 2, 2020
        • John Haney: Sea Change / The Garden, Feb. 1 - Mar. 1, 2020
      • 2019 >
        • Nancy Anne McPhee: Solid State, Aug. 31 - Sept. 29, 2019
        • Andrew McPhail: TEXTiles/This is not an AIDS quilt, Aug. 1-31, 2019
        • Andrea Carvalho: no flowers, no cake, Jun. 3 -30, 2019
        • Abedar Kamgari: Alef, beh, and other necessities, May 3-27, 2019
        • ​Sylvia Nickerson: break in to break out/all we have left is this, Apr. 2019
        • David Trautrimas: ​ The Lake Dives Where The Earth Curves, Jan. 4-26, 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Mia Sandhu: Soft Kaur, Nov. 2018
        • John Farr, Evelyn Kelch, & Brian Kelly: Trouble Light, Oct. 2018
        • ​Stephen Altena: The Miss Philippa Savary Residency, Elton House, Bath UK, Sept. 2018
        • Steve Mazza: (me)mentos, Aug. 3-25, 2018
        • Summer School, curated by Andy DeCola, Jun. 29 - Jul. 28, 2018
        • John Haney: The Angel of History, May 4-26, 2018
        • Andrea Carvalho: Light From Two Sides, Apr. 6-28, 2018
        • Andrew McPhail: Grudge, Mar. 2018
        • Dan Gibbons: Slump, Feb. 9 - Mar. 3, 2018
        • Stephen Altena: Another Spring, Jan. 5 - Feb. 3, 2018
      • 2017 >
        • Group Show: Generalists Die in Bed, Dec. 8-22, 2017
        • David Trautrimas: ...itself, by an ellipsis, Nov. 10 - Dec. 2, 2017
        • Fiona Kinsella: In Progress, Oct. 6 - Nov. 4, 2017
        • Margaret Flood: Something Round / Melissa Neil: smoking lake, Sept. 2017
        • Jacqui Oakley & Jamie Lawson: Drowned World, Aug. 2017
        • Brandon Vickerd: Monuments to a Perfect Future, Jul. 2017
        • Gary Barwin, Laine Groeneweg, Stephanie Vegh, & Steve Mazza: The Library of Known Planets, Jun. 2017
        • Andy DeCola: Where is my Mind?, May 12 - Jun. 3, 2017
        • Brian Kelly: Fridge Magnets, Apr. 14 - May 6, 2017
        • Svava Thordis Juliusson: Piles, Mar. 10 - Apr. 8, 2017
        • Nancy Anne McPhee: Still Life with Flowers, Feb. 10 - Mar. 4
        • Daniel Hutchinson: Delta Flowers, Jan. 7 - Feb. 4, 2017
      • 2016 >
        • Group Show: Sad Lights, Dec. 2016
        • John Haney: Working in the Dark, Nov. 11 - Dec. 3, 2016
  • Artists
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    • Andrew McPhail
    • Adam Matak
    • Angela Busse
    • Breanna Shanahan
    • Dan Gibbons
    • Christopher Reid Flock
    • Corinne Duchesne
    • Brian Kelly
    • John Haney
    • Kristina Durka
    • Mark Prier
    • Michael Allgoewer
    • Mike Hansen
    • Nancy Anne McPhee
    • Natasja Bischoff
    • Ravinder Ruprai
    • Sarah Sproule
    • Stephen Altena
    • Vick Naresh
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PicturePink Smock, neoprene and felt, 30x30", 2019

Nancy Anne McPhee
Solid State


Aug 31st to Sept 29th, 2019
Opening Reception Sat 14th 3-5pm

 
Inspired equally by home textiles, colour field paintings and the integrity of the fabric, these works are more test than result, a giant, quilted, needlepoint sampler of sorts. This work is about vision and the blurry/buzzy eye that comes with colour field paintings and striped fabric.  

These pieces are an experiment in materiality and planes of space that seek to be equally forward thinking and rooted in traditional making. The scope of former works are replaced with a scaling up of traditional textile techniques without becoming an unwieldy size.

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Nancy Anne McPhee is a textile installation artist originally from Alberta and now based in Hamilton, ON. McPhee has a BFA from the University of Victoria, an MFA from Concordia University, an MLIS from Dalhousie University, and has worked as an instructor at Concordia University and NSCAD University. McPhee has exhibited nationally and internationally in commercial galleries, artist-run centres and public galleries, and has received funding from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.  Recent exhibitions include the Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf (QC), SUPERCRAWL Hamilton (ON), and solo shows at Agnes Jamieson Gallery (ON) and Grenfell Campus Art Gallery (NL).

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  • Home
  • Exhibitions
    • Current
    • Past >
      • 2026 >
        • ​Nancy Anne McPhee: Highway, Sept. 4-26, 2026
        • ​Natasja Bischoff & Kristy Woudstra: Built & Quilt, Aug. 7-29, 2026
        • Bre Shanahan: Flux Forest, Jul. 3-24, 2026
        • Vick Naresh & Ravinder Ruprai: Gatekeepers, Jun. 2-27, 2026
        • Mark Prier: On Conjuration, Apr. 2-28, 2026
        • John Haney: The Dog that Caught the Car, Mar. 5 - Apr. 12, 2026
        • Brian Kelly: flotsam & jetsam, Jan. 24 - Mar. 1, 2026
      • 2025 >
        • Group Show: One, Two, Three, Dec. 10-23, 2025
        • Stephen Altena and Andrew McPhail: Vignette / Mackenzie Browning: Vessels, Nov. 4-30, 2025
        • Michael Allgoewer: ...being a history of the West (in 7 stations), Sept. 2-28, 2025
        • Adam Matak: Keep It Together, Aug. 2-29, 2025
        • Mike Hansen: You caught me singing in the shower, Jul. 1-26, 2025
        • Andrea Carvalho, Kristina Durka, & Matthew Tegel: Porus, Jun. 5-28, 2025
        • Sarah Sproule: Variations on a form, May 3-31, 2025
        • Nancy Anne McPhee and young collaborators: Stagecraft, Apr. 11-29, 2025
        • Natasja Bischoff and Nathan Eugene Carson: Connect, Mar. 1-29, 2025
        • Nathan Eugene Carson, Christopher Reid Flock, Veneda Jane, Maureen Locke, Ryan Nesbitt, & Laura Wagner: Progressions: A dialogue in clay, Feb. 1-28, 2025
        • Vick Naresh: You are many faces, Jan. 6-28, 2025
      • 2024 >
        • Breanna Shanahan: Glares from a past / Glances of a future, Nov. 14 - Dec. 1, 2024
        • Angela Busse: Surge + Flow, Oct. 10 - Nov. 5, 2024
        • Mark Prier: Pulp, Sept. 4-28, 2024
        • John Haney: Landfall, Aug. 9-28, 2024
        • Corinne Duchesne: Self-ish, Jul. 3 - Aug. 6, 2024
        • Brian Kelly: Gemini, May 4-30, 2024
        • Stephen Altena: Everything's Gone Green, Jun. 4-30, 2024
        • Matt Walker & Michael Allgoewer: Space Between: Equal Time, Apr. 1-30, 2024
        • Andrew McPhail, Lindy Fyfe, & Urmas Lüüs: Piecework, Mar. 4-31, 2024
        • Adam Matak: All that we wish to stay, Feb 2 - Mar. 1, 2024
        • Natasja Bischoff & Reuben Bischoff-Hadala: Deathinator, Jan. 1-31, 2024
      • 2023 >
        • Kristina Durka, Sarah Sproule, & Laura Brandreth: PART of the FURNITURE, Nov. 3-30, 2023
        • Christopher Reid Flock: The Structures Within, Oct. 1-31, 2023
        • Mothra, Aug. 5-27, 2023
        • Dan Gibbons, Nancy Anne McPhee, Philippa Gibbons, Helena Gibbons: Twilight Craft Table, Jul. 2023
        • Angela Busse: Gore Park: a 3D exploration, Jun. 3-29, 2023
        • Breanna Shanahan: Green Prescriptions and other colours amid boundaries and blades of grass, May 5-28, 2023
        • Vick Naresh: A Sequence of Events, Apr. 1-30, 2023
        • Stephen Altena: Frolic, Mar. 4-31, 2023
        • Brian Kelly: ... for my cat Annie (RIP) a poem, Feb. 2-28, 2023
        • Sarah Kernohan, Gareth Lichty, & Mark Prier: again and again and again, Jan. 6-29, 2023
      • 2022 >
        • Christopher Reid Flock: Shards, Dec. 1-31, 2022
        • Adam Matak: (in)organic, Nov. 2-29, 2022
        • John Haney: Received Wisdom, Oct. 8-30, 2022
        • Andrew McPhail: Boo Who, Jul. 4-30, 2022
        • Jeanne Fries & Sarah Sproule: Veneration, May 2-28, 2022
        • Angela Busse: Urban Interstices, Apr. 2-30, 2022
        • Natasja Bischoff & Nancy Benoy: Nb2, March 2022
        • Andy DeCola, Colin Bowers, Nicholas Zirk, & Cameron Wylie: Lost in the supermarket, Feb. 2022
      • 2021 >
        • Mark Prier: Jubilee, Oct. 2-27, 2021
        • Corinne Duchesne: Your kiss needs more tongue, Mar. 4-28, 2021
      • 2020 >
        • Andrew McPhail, Matthew Varey, & Steve Newberry: Pricks: Men Who Sew, Dec. 5-23, 2020
        • Michael Allgoewer: Marking Time, Nov. 5 - Dec. 3, 2020
        • Adam Matak: Let a Thousand Blossoms Bloom, Oct. 9 - Nov. 2, 2020
        • John Haney: Sea Change / The Garden, Feb. 1 - Mar. 1, 2020
      • 2019 >
        • Nancy Anne McPhee: Solid State, Aug. 31 - Sept. 29, 2019
        • Andrew McPhail: TEXTiles/This is not an AIDS quilt, Aug. 1-31, 2019
        • Andrea Carvalho: no flowers, no cake, Jun. 3 -30, 2019
        • Abedar Kamgari: Alef, beh, and other necessities, May 3-27, 2019
        • ​Sylvia Nickerson: break in to break out/all we have left is this, Apr. 2019
        • David Trautrimas: ​ The Lake Dives Where The Earth Curves, Jan. 4-26, 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Mia Sandhu: Soft Kaur, Nov. 2018
        • John Farr, Evelyn Kelch, & Brian Kelly: Trouble Light, Oct. 2018
        • ​Stephen Altena: The Miss Philippa Savary Residency, Elton House, Bath UK, Sept. 2018
        • Steve Mazza: (me)mentos, Aug. 3-25, 2018
        • Summer School, curated by Andy DeCola, Jun. 29 - Jul. 28, 2018
        • John Haney: The Angel of History, May 4-26, 2018
        • Andrea Carvalho: Light From Two Sides, Apr. 6-28, 2018
        • Andrew McPhail: Grudge, Mar. 2018
        • Dan Gibbons: Slump, Feb. 9 - Mar. 3, 2018
        • Stephen Altena: Another Spring, Jan. 5 - Feb. 3, 2018
      • 2017 >
        • Group Show: Generalists Die in Bed, Dec. 8-22, 2017
        • David Trautrimas: ...itself, by an ellipsis, Nov. 10 - Dec. 2, 2017
        • Fiona Kinsella: In Progress, Oct. 6 - Nov. 4, 2017
        • Margaret Flood: Something Round / Melissa Neil: smoking lake, Sept. 2017
        • Jacqui Oakley & Jamie Lawson: Drowned World, Aug. 2017
        • Brandon Vickerd: Monuments to a Perfect Future, Jul. 2017
        • Gary Barwin, Laine Groeneweg, Stephanie Vegh, & Steve Mazza: The Library of Known Planets, Jun. 2017
        • Andy DeCola: Where is my Mind?, May 12 - Jun. 3, 2017
        • Brian Kelly: Fridge Magnets, Apr. 14 - May 6, 2017
        • Svava Thordis Juliusson: Piles, Mar. 10 - Apr. 8, 2017
        • Nancy Anne McPhee: Still Life with Flowers, Feb. 10 - Mar. 4
        • Daniel Hutchinson: Delta Flowers, Jan. 7 - Feb. 4, 2017
      • 2016 >
        • Group Show: Sad Lights, Dec. 2016
        • John Haney: Working in the Dark, Nov. 11 - Dec. 3, 2016
  • Artists
    • Andrea Carvalho
    • Andrew McPhail
    • Adam Matak
    • Angela Busse
    • Breanna Shanahan
    • Dan Gibbons
    • Christopher Reid Flock
    • Corinne Duchesne
    • Brian Kelly
    • John Haney
    • Kristina Durka
    • Mark Prier
    • Michael Allgoewer
    • Mike Hansen
    • Nancy Anne McPhee
    • Natasja Bischoff
    • Ravinder Ruprai
    • Sarah Sproule
    • Stephen Altena
    • Vick Naresh
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