Louis de Niverville Pentimenti

E.C. Woodley is a critic, curator, and artist who lives in Toronto. He has been a regular contributor to
Art in America,
Vie des Arts,
Canadian Art,
Border Crossings, and
Momus. As a curator his exhibitions include
Fernand Leduc,
Microchromies 1970–1999, Olga Korper Gallery;
Soul of a Shoe: Three Generations of Painting, Wynick/Tuck Gallery;
The Last Things Before the Last, McMaster Museum of Art;
Leopold Plotek: No Work, Nor Device, Nor Knowledge, Nor Wisdom, Koffler Gallery, and
Howard Podeswa: Dèpaysement | Studio, Birch Contemporary. As an artist his site-specific work includes:
Augustrasse 25 for the Koffler Gallery at the Kiever Synagogue in Toronto;
Tales from an Empty Cabin at The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst; and
10h–20h, in collaboration with Laura Belém at the Palácio do Comércio de Maceió, Brazil, as part of the Premio CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaca para as Artes Plásticas.

Ihor Holubizky is an art historian and senior curator based in Canada and has been a Trustee of the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation since 2009. He has held several public gallery curatorial positions, including curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, from 1979 to 1988 and the Art Gallery of Hamilton from 1989 to 1997. He has been a guest curator for retrospective exhibitions of Don Jean-Louis, Walter Tandy Murch, and Kazuo Nakamura at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. In Australia he was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the Art Museum at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. He was awarded a senior Canada Council grant for independent curators in 1998, and an Australia Council grant in 2004 for a research residency at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, in Japan.

Tobi Bruce is Head of Exhibitions and Collections, and Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. With over thirty years’ experience, Tobi has curated over 75 exhibitions, lectured and published extensively, and participated as a panelist at conferences nationally and internationally. Notable exhibitions and publications include Tom Thomson? The Art of Authentication; The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists; Into the Light: The Paintings of William Blair Bruce; The French Connection: Canadian Painters at the Paris Salons, and William Kurelek: The Messenger.

Thomas Miller majored in art at the University of Redlands in California and received his MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 1969. In 1972 Thomas co-found Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, which specializes in mixed media puppet productions for young people. For fifteen years Thomas was the resident designer for Mermaid Theatre and created several award-winning productions which toured Canada, England, Wales, Australia, Japan, and the United States. In 1987 Thomas began painting fulltime and has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States where his paintings are part of private and corporate collections. Following the death of his longtime partner Louis de Niverville, Thomas became the manager of the Estate of Louis de Niverville.

Philip Ottenbrite is a curator and art dealer who has held directorships at Toronto’s Mira Godard Gallery and at New York’s Paolo Baldacci Gallery, where he also became vice president and partner in 1991. He has organized major exhibitions on artists such as Alex Colville, David Milne, Louis de Niverville, Christopher Pratt, Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, and Lucio Fontana, among many others. Ottenbrite has written on a wide range of artists, from David Milne and Mark Tobey to contemporary artists like Paterson Ewen and Medrie MacPhee. He is the advisor to the Estate of Louis De Niverville and is working on a biography of New York City ball culture legend Angie Xtravaganza.

E.C. Woodley is a critic, curator, and artist who lives in Toronto. He has been a regular contributor to Art in America, Vie des Arts, Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and Momus. As a curator his exhibitions include Fernand Leduc, Microchromies 1970–1999, Olga Korper Gallery; Soul of a Shoe: Three Generations of Painting, Wynick/Tuck Gallery; The Last Things Before the Last, McMaster Museum of Art; Leopold Plotek: No Work, Nor Device, Nor Knowledge, Nor Wisdom, Koffler Gallery, and Howard Podeswa: Dèpaysement | Studio, Birch Contemporary. As an artist his site-specific work includes: Augustrasse 25 for the Koffler Gallery at the Kiever Synagogue in Toronto; Tales from an Empty Cabin at The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst; and 10h–20h, in collaboration with Laura Belém at the Palácio do Comércio de Maceió, Brazil, as part of the Premio CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaca para as Artes Plásticas.