Rebecca Anweiler

Passing Through is a collection of small oil on linen paintings, grouped in series. This exhibit was at the David Kaye Gallery in April of 2017.

In 2017 Anweiler held a solo show at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre in Kingston, Ontario titled Animal/Séance.

Anweiler took part in the one week MLS artist residency “Wander Lines: Mythodological Escapism,” in August 2017.

Anweiler took part in experimental artist collective Department of Biological Flow’s creative experiment “Channel Surf: Between Two Signals ~~~//~~~A Durational Event” in June 2015.

I Wish You Were Here, shown in 2012, is Anweiler’s second exhibition at the David Kaye Gallery.

Anweiler participated in Art Shift at the Union Gallery in Kingston, Ontario. Located on the Queen’s University campus, the Union Gallery is student-centred and aims to support the education of young artists. Art Shift was a 2009 project that brought together artists from different generations, both emerging and established artists, who would work together in a creative exchange while providing professional development to participants. The exhibition “Conflux” happened at the end of the Art Shift project and was in the Union Gallery’s main space. The show featured one of Anweiler’s paintings entitled “Storm Bird II,” from Anweiler’s earlier exhibition Manifestations of a Different Nature.

Debuting in 2008, this collection emphasizes many recurring themes in Anweiler’s artistic practice such as the connections between science and mysticism, as well as the conflict between nature and modernity. In each of the 21 paintings the canvas is split between one monochromatic image of an animal or occasionally a human figure and one image of scenery in colour. Anweiler writes that the series tries to “establish the paranormal as part of nature.”

The 2006 exhibition Nature Lover at the Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects was initially shown under the title Sexual/Nature at Maison de la Culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal in Montréal, Québec in 2005.

Specializing in painting, she later attended Concordia University in 2000 for her Masters of Fine Art. While attending Anweiler was awarded J. W. McConnell Memorial Fellowship.

One of Anweiler’s first exhibitions after completing her MFA at Concordia was Longing for Paradise at the Toronto based BUSgallery in 2000. This two-person show was alongside Guelph-based painter Pearl Van Geest. Their work both focused on topics of what is considered public and private as well as the subject of traditional femininity.

She then moved to Toronto to attend the University of Toronto. She received a Master of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in 1994. Anweiler then attended the Ontario College of Art and Design (now OCAD University), where she received an Associates Degree in drawing and painting in 1997.

Rebecca Anweiler (born September 11, 1959) is a contemporary Canadian visual artist based in Kingston, Ontario. She has been exhibiting works in oil painting, new media and video since 2000. She has taught at Queen’s University at Kingston for 15 years. Most notably her works are in the collections of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the City of Toronto, and the University of Lethbridge.

Rebecca Anweiler was born in Hamilton, Ontario on September 11, 1959.

Much of Anweiler’s work is done in a photo-realistic style, or “soft photo-realism” as termed by the contemporary artist Jon Davies because Anweiler’s style “evokes not simulates her source photos,”  which she derives from encyclopedias and textbooks produced through the 1950s. Many of her earlier works are grisailles, which David Jager compares to the artist Mark Tansey’s style. Anweiler’s style emphasizes the inherent symbolism in everyday imagery through the reproduction of these images. Through reproduction Anweiler calls attention to how social norms of the past continue to be recreated in the present.