About Me

I am a Toronto-based artist, creating mixed media sculpture and installations that intersect art, science and the environment. My work includes an array of diverse materials, from pigmented wax, paint, and photo-based imagery, to wire, mosquitoes, and salt crystals. They often examine the cultural and social ecologies we inhabit as being transformed in unexpected, and often, uncontrollable ways. These transformations, and their accompanying emotional response, is often viewed through the lens of biology, the aesthetics of disaster, and the psychology of fear. I have shown nationally and internationally, and received grants and awards from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Banff Centre for Visual Arts.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

'Being She' at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

Being She: The Culture of Women's Health
and Health Care Through the Lens of Wholeness
June 9 - 15, 2011, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

I will have this digital image of my niece Renee showing in this exhibition.
Opening Reception is Thursday June 9th at 730

Hope you can swing by and see the show. There is a wonderful group of artists showing!!
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Red Dot Show

http://www.redheadgallery.org/
Check out some of my microscopic images at the Red Head Gallery's year-end review show and sale.
Continues until Dec. 18th
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

interview with Art Sync

Hey everyone:
check out my interview with Art Sync on the live bacteria in my exhibit!

http://www.artsync.ca/opening-elaine-whittaker/
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

with the work

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interview on Art Sync

The interview with me at my opening is now posted on Art Sync.

Check out:
http://www.artsync.ca/opening-elaine-whittaker/
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more photos of (in)trepid cultures




at Red Head Gallery, Toronto until Oct. 30th
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

(in)trepid cultures Red Head Gallery




here it is. the installation is now on view at Red Head Gallery.
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