Maclaren Art Centre

Join us Thursday, September 8 for a talk by Ted Fullerton on the work of regional artist Frederick Hagan. Ted Fullerton is a practicing artist who is also the coordinator of the Fine Art Program and Director/Curator of the Campus Gallery at Georgian College. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous private and public collections. Fullerton, who recognizes Hagan as a mentor and a good friend, will present insight into the artist's art practice and teaching methodology based on his experience as a student of Hagan’s at the Ontario College of Art in the mid-seventies and his thirty-year friendship with Hagan.
 
Frederick Hagan (1918–2003), born and raised in Toronto, was a descendent of nineteenth-century settlers of Muskoka. He held a lifelong fondness for the Huronia and Near North regions, people and histories. Frederick Hagan: Figure in Place continues at the MacLarenArtCentre until September 11 and includes major paintings by Hagan and related compositional studies from the MacLaren’s Permanent Collection. Figure in Place was organized in conjunction with Figuring Out the Landscape: The influence of “the land” in the paintings of Frederick Hagan, curated by Ted Fullerton for the Campus Gallery at Georgian College and on view from September 13 to October 9, 2011. The exhibitions are accompanied by a collaborative publication with essays by eminent Canadian art historian Dennis Reid and the curators.