Claude Breeze
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Claude Herbert Breeze is a Canadian artist
and Professor Emeritus at York University
in Toronto
, Canada
. He is also sometimes known as C. Herbert.
Breeze has exhibited his paintings in numerous solo and group shows around the world. His work is found in public, corporate and private collections, including Canada's National Gallery
. Among his works are several pieces of public art, including Spacing... Aerial Highways, a 300 foot ceramic tile mural at Lawrence West subway station
in Toronto.
Breeze is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
. He was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in recognition of his work and his contributions to the visual arts in Canada.
Breeze's paintings typically portray television news and the disjunction between the reality and the viewer.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and Professor Emeritus at York University
York University
York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....
in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. He is also sometimes known as C. Herbert.
Breeze has exhibited his paintings in numerous solo and group shows around the world. His work is found in public, corporate and private collections, including Canada's National Gallery
National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...
. Among his works are several pieces of public art, including Spacing... Aerial Highways, a 300 foot ceramic tile mural at Lawrence West subway station
Lawrence West (TTC)
Lawrence West is a station on the Yonge–University–Spadina line of the subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on William R. Allen Road at 655 Lawrence Avenue West. It opened in 1978 in what was then the Borough of North York...
in Toronto.
Breeze is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is a Canadian arts-related institution founded in 1880, under the patronage of the Governor General of Canada, Sir John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, the Marquess of Lorne. Canadian landscape painter Homer Watson was a member and president of the Academy...
. He was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in recognition of his work and his contributions to the visual arts in Canada.
Breeze's paintings typically portray television news and the disjunction between the reality and the viewer.