Jeanne Cannizzo
Cannizzo is currently
undertaking research on the historical British collections of the Art Gallery
of Greater Victoria; she also did the re-hang of the Spencer Mansion rooms
there in 2012. An anthropologist, with an MA from the University of Toronto and
a PhD from the University of Washington, her fieldwork was on the street
masquerades of urban children in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Special interests
are the anthropology of art, material culture and critical museology, all
subjects which she taught at the University of Edinburgh and which inform her
own art. While living in Scotland she was an occasional guest curator for the
Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Our Highland Home: Victoria and Albert
in Scotland was her last exhibition for that gallery before returning to
Canada.
Her works have been shown in
Naples, Florida at the Von Liebig Art Centre in a juried exhibition and also in
a juried exhibition in Dundee of the Scottish Society for the Visual Arts. In
2010 her Smugglerius Revealed was exhibited at the Talbot Rice Gallery
in Edinburgh. This exhibition featured a plaster cast of a flayed man, used for
teaching art students anatomy at the Edinburgh College of Art. Cannizzo
discovered a possible identity for the man, an 18th century criminal
hanged in London for robbery, and with her co-artist then draped the form with
various cloths, symbolically restoring both his skin and his humanity. Objects
and the relationships they embody, cross-cultural encounters and current events
are the things she most often explores in her paintings, drawings and collage
work.
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