Head Space: Five Decades of Bruce Head

Bruce Head has been a leading Canadian painter and designer for more than fifty years. This first monograph looks at his artistic career in the context of his experimentation and innovation with materials. An innovator of the so-called ink graphic in the 1950s, Head gradually moved toward a painterly and lyrical approach to organic abstraction. Making a radical departure in the 1960s, Head punctured canvases, stretched canvases over film reels and sewed and collaged canvases to create elegant and surprising results. Throughout, Head has enjoyed a practice as a designer and has consistently blurred the boundaries of printmaking, sculpture, sewing, design and painting. Two scholarly essays provide a rich understanding of Head's contribution to the last fifty years of Canadian art history.