![]() ![]() ![]() And they've done it not through painting portraits or silkscreening prints but by building what Kitty Scott, contemporary and modern art curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, calls "alternate worlds - of sound, space and time - that viewers can, at least for a few moments, lose themselves in and become time travellers, space explorers." Theirs is "a unique ability," she enthuses, "offering us challenging, beautiful, immersive experiences." Today, married 30 years with a six-year-old daughter, Aradhana, they're among the few Canadians berthed in the upper echelons of the contemporary international art world. She was 23 at the time, an aspiring printmaker from southwestern Ontario he was 20, from Vegreville, Alta., and keen to paint and sculpt. Foremost among the species in Canada are Janet Cardiff, '83 MVA, and George Bures Miller, who have been close collaborators since 1981 when both enrolled as master's candidates in what is now the Department of Art & Design at the U of A. ![]() But couples who have functioned or function as artistic teams? They're much rarer. ![]() Think Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Knowles and William Perehudoff, Rachel Feinstein and John Currin. It's not hard to name couples, past and present, in which wife and husband have each excelled in the visual arts. ![]()
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