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   Doreen Balabanoff

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   Trees I Have Known: Doreen Balabanoff
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   Trees I Have Known: Doreen Balabanoff
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   Faculty of Design Assistant Dean (First-Year) Doreen Balabanoff presents new work.
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   Doreen Balabanoff is an artist and designer whose work in glass over the past 30 years is marked by an abiding interest in colour as material and colour as light.
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   Balabanoff is currently an Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Design at Ontario College of Art & Design, and teaches in the Environmental Design program.

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   Doreen Balabanoff is an architectural glass artist & architectural designer living/working in Toronto, Ontario.She currently teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design and is the Assistant Dean, Faculty of Design, First Year.She has a B.A. (Art) from Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and a professional Master of Architecture from UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
   
   Balabanoff studied stained glass with reknowned key figures in ithe international glass community, British stained glass artist/educator Patrick Reyntiens and German glass designer Ludwig Schaffrath in the 70's.
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   Since arriving in Canada in 1977, Balabanoff has been working w/ architectural glass, for exhibition as well as commissioned works.In 1981 (w/ S.Reid & D.Pearl) she organized the national competition/exhibition, 'Personal Image for Social Space' (on the use of glass in architecture, open to all visual artists in Canada., juried by Greg Curnoe, France Morin and John C. Parkin.In 1990, she organized "The Burleighfield Experience" at the Ontario Crafts Council Gallery - an exhibition/symposium honouring mentor Patrick Reyntiens' significant international contribution to the development of contemporary glass and its current practitioners.
   
   Upon completing a Masters Degree in Architecture at UCLA in 1985, Balabanoff worked in the Design Department at WZMH Architects in Toronto, and later in the offices of Eugene Janiss and Warren Grossman.
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   Balabanoff was the guest editor of Leadline Magazine in 1993-94."Colour + Light, Image + Emanation" focused on the meaning and manifestation of light & colour in architecture.Her article on Joseph Albers work in glass appears in this issue, and is cited in the Guggenheim's catalogue accompanying a major exhibition of his work in glass (1994-5)
   
   In 1997 she co-curated 'Six Voix/Six Voices' an exhibition at the Centre International du Vitrail, Chartres, France, which presented the work of six contemporary Canadian architectural glass artists to over 20,000 visitors at this major glass gallery, directly adjacent to Chartres Cathedral. 'Six Voices' showed in Munich & Halifax before coming to the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, in 1998-99.
   
   Balabanoff's commissioned work, "Eight Tone Poems", for the Freeport Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, was recognized by the Canadian Health Care Association as the Outstanding Donor Recognition Project of 1999.The piece involved the selection & use of over forty poems by Canadian poets, in a contemplative set of eight 'colour chord' windows.
   
   In 2000 she created a light projection piece for the Alderwood Centre in Etobicoke, and was one of four international artists invited to propose a major light sculpture for the roofscape of the Bay-Adelaide Centre in Toronto.In 2002 she completed a set of 14 Stations of the Cross in glass for the chapel of St. Joseph's Health Centre, Guelph.Her Lake Huron house/studio, designed with partner S. Reid, is nearing end of construction.
   
   Memberships: OAA, OCC, CARFAC, GAAC, Board of Directors OCC, Women's Glass Network (international group of 21 glass artists).She has served as a juror for the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council, has been an invited visiting critic (architecture) at SCI-ARC, Washington University and University of Michigan, has lectured and written on architectural glass.