CELIA NEUBAUER

In her elegant paintings, Neubauer harkens back to the precision of historical Chinese painting and the tenderness of calligraphy under the guise of modernist abstraction. At once familiar and strange, these works are symptomatic of Neubauer’s adeptness at fabricating almost-ambiguous spaces, be they celestial landscapes, heavenly bodies, ice shelves or clouds exploding in the sky. Neubauer continues to seduce the voyeur that is within us all while quietly reminding us of our frailty and our diminutive place within the larger universe.

Neubauer received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at York University and earned a Higher Diploma at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. Neubauer exhibits internationally and her work is included in the collections of BMO Financial Group, Royal Bank of Canada, TD Art Collection, Canada Life, Cadillac Fairview, Four Seasons (Dubai), the Donovan Collection, Hewlett Packard Canada Ltd., Live Entertainment of Canada Inc., Art Gallery of Mississauga, Tory Tory Deslauriers & Binnington, Telus Sky and many private collections. She has taught at Queen’s University; the University of Guelph and the University of Toronto School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Neubauer’s work has been featured in The Globe and Mail numerous times, Canadian Art Magazine, The Toronto Star, Toronto Life Magazine, Design Lines Magazine and Carte Blanche 2: Painting.