Milly Ristvedt's catalogue Vol. 2, launched during the Hamptons Art Fair 2024
Oeno Gallery is proud to announce the release of Milly Ristvedt's second catalogue, which took place on Friday, July 12, during the 2024 Hamptons Fine Art Fair. For the occasion, Milly Ristvedt was present at the fair for a signature session of her new catalogue as well as an interview. She was also 1 of 9 artists selected by the fair for the artist spotlight, an honour given to esteemed artists exhibiting at the fair.
Hamptons 2024 Artist Spotlight
This new catalogue called: 'Milly Ristvedt - Colour and Form: 60 Years of Dynamic Equilibrium | Vol. 2' is an extensive continuation of the previous catalogue 'Milly Ristvedt - Colour and Meaning: an incomplete palette', released in 2017. Covering 60 years of career, this new catalogue featured a large scope of works, archival pictures, past articles and old sketches organized by decades. A special section is solely dedicated to the Highway paintings series, a series created in the late 1960s that was seemingly lost, only to be rediscovered 50 years later, and exhibited for the 1st time in 2021.
In addition to Milly Ristvedt's personal writings, several contributors have provided thoughtful essays sharing their impressions on the artist's work and career. Among the contributors, you can find powerful essays by Adam Welch, the Associate Curator of Modern Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Yvonne Lammerich, a visual artist, curator and writer, Carlyn Moulton, Oeno Gallery's owner and curator, Karen Wilkin, New-York based curator, author and critic and David Mott, a well-known jazz musician.
Milly Ristvedt was born in Kimberley, B.C. and studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University). She began her art practice in Toronto and had her first exhibition there in 1968 with the Carmen Lamanna Gallery. Since 1968 Ristvedt has had more than fifty solo exhibitions, including a travelling ten-year survey exhibition in 1978 organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and her work has been included in national and international exhibitions. In 2012 was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her service as Advocacy Representative for the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Her work can be found in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Glenbow Museum, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Harvard University, amongst others. In 2011, Ristvedt earned a Master’s degree in Art History from Queen’s University, with her thesis, Reinhardt, Martin, Richter: Colour in the Grid of Contemporary Painting.
This new catalogue, designed and published by Oeno Gallery is an up-to-date, complete and well-documented survey reflecting Milly Ristvedt's impressive artistic career and contribution to Canadian arts. Copies of Milly Ristvedt's new catalogues are available for purchase at the gallery.
Installation view of the Oeno Gallery booth, with MIlly Ristvedt paintings at the Hamptons Art Fair 2024. From left to right: Jazz Piano, Acrylic on Canvas, 84 x 36 inches, 1984 (p. 110) and Winter Green, Acrylic on Canvas, 59 x 116 inches, 1969 (p. 32).