| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Joan Nourry Barry refers to her art training as “no-nonsense, on-the-job experience that can only be accomplished by pursuing a full-time career as an artist, writer and sculptor.” Although mainly self-taught, she audited art classes with renowned artists such as André Bieler, Jacques de Tonnancour, Alex Colville and Jack Shadbolt.
Nourry Barry was married to artist Douglas Barry for more than 65 years. While he painted traditional landscapes, her surrealistic painting and bronze sculpture leaned toward the abstract. Their work was exhibited together in Joinings at the University of Alberta’s Extension Centre Gallery (Edmonton, AB) in 2003. From 1962 into the twenty-first century, Joan Nourry Barry’s work has been exhibited at the Edmonton Art Gallery (now Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON) and the New Brunswick Museum (St. John, NB). Beginning in 1985, she showed her work in her home gallery and studio. Her art is found in many private and public collections, including the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. |