MKG127 is pleased to present A Place in the Country, an exhibition of work by Monica Tap.

Opening Saturday, March 16, 2-5 PM.

In A Place in the Country, Monica Tap uses landscape to consider questions of time and history, technology and memory. These new paintings are arrangements assembled from various fragments: outtakes from painting’s history, elements from her own snapshots, colour notes, memory. Each painting is both an invention and a response to a place that she knows and has recorded. She is interested in how location or landscape can trigger memory; akin to how painting readily conjures its own past. This history reveals how aesthetics, among other factors, have operated to tame nature into landscape, and the artifice and assumptions underlying this error.

Monica Tap has exhibited at The Painting Center (NYC), the Canadian Embassy (Washington, D.C.), Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Dispari & Dispari Projects (Italy), Oakville Galleries (ON), Dalhousie Art Gallery (Halifax), London Regional Art and Historical Museum (London, ON), and Margaret Thatcher Projects (NYC). Her works are included in many private and public collections including Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (NYC, Berlin), Canada House, (London, UK), Bank of Montréal, TELUS, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts, ESSO Imperial Oil Canada , CIBC Mellon, University of Toronto, Würth Collection (Germany), and most recently, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Review: BORDER CROSSINGS (Fall 2019): Monica Tap by Daniel O’Quinn