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Harold
Klunder is one of Canada’s most critically acclaimed
artists.
Born in 1943, in Deventer, the Netherlands, he immigrated to
Canada in 1952.
Klunder’s work has been
shown extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia
and is represented in many public and private collections
including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of
Ontario, Musee de Contemporain (Montreal),
and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Elected to the
Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) in 1983, he has taught and
lectured at many universities and art schools across Canada,
as well as schools in the U.S. and South East Asia.
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"Klunder is now indisputably working at the top of his form (although, who can say, for that matter, what riches are to come?)"
- Gary Michael Dault, Globe & Mail, April 23, 2005
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“Harold Klunder makes
paintings. They aren't designed, rationalized or discussed
beforehand but rather built through engagement with a
process of work. The skill Klunder has gained from years of
grappling with painting's history and the accumulated facts
of his own production comes to bear on every decision, but,
in the end, each brush stroke only exists in relation to
every other; nothing is premeditated. Here are no failures,
just shifts in direction. It's a fluid process of building
surfaces, conversing with colour and form and managing the
potential for dissent”.
- Randall
Anderson in Canadian
Art
- Spring, 2005
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