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Christopher ​Régimbal

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Christopher ​Régimbal
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"A Fire at the Embassy Hotel," Fuse Magazine 33, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 12–15.
Christopher Regimbal is an art historian and curator who lives in Ottawa. He has published and curated on the history of artist-run culture in London, including essays “Institutions of Regionalism: Artist Collectivism in London, Ontario, 1960–1990” in Institutions by Artists, volume 2, and “A Fire at the Embassy Hotel” in Fuse Magazine, and the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Audio/Video Piece for London, Ontario at the Forest City Gallery. He is a specialist in post-war art and has written about Agnes Martin, Eleanor Mackey, General Idea, Sol LeWitt, and Michael Fernandes. He is a Senior Exhibitions Manager at the National Gallery of Canada. He met Ron Benner and Jamelie Hassan in 2002 when he was a student at  Western University.

Selected publications:
  • “Institutions of Regionalism: Artist Collectivism in London, Ontario, 1960–1990,” in Institutions by Artists, vol. 2, ed. Jeff Khonsary and Antonia Pinter (Vancouver: Fillip Editions, 2021). Originally published in Fillip 19 (Spring 2014). 
  • “Agnes Martin: Beauty is in your mind, not in the rose,” National Gallery of Canada Magazine, June 19, 2020.
  • Agnes Martin: Life & Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2019).
  • “Dive-In: Eleanor Mackey and Formalism in Toronto,” in Edges of Abstraction: The Art of Eleanor Mackey (1932–2014), ed. Dermot Wilson (North Bay: Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective, 2017), 7­–23.
  • “It’s Just One God Damned Thing After Another, Kelly Mark,” in Kelly Mark: Everything is Interesting, ed. Barbara Fischer (Toronto: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 2014).
  • “General Idea: Haute Culture,” Camera Austria, no. 116 (2011): 79­–80.
  • “Restaging LeWitt: Sol LeWitt: A Mercer Union Legacy Project,” interview with Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Magenta Magazine: An International Journal of Visual Art 1, no. 4 (Fall 2010).
  • "A Fire at the Embassy Hotel," Fuse Magazine 33, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 12–15.
  • “Michelle Allard and The Parker Branch,” Magenta Magazine: An International Journal of Visual Art 1, no. 3 (Spring 2010).
  • “The 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant,” Art Papers (March/April 2010): 40–41.
  • “Art Where the Nights are Cold,” in The Ice Follies 2008, ed. Dermot Wilson (North Bay, ON: W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, 2009).
  • “Whose life are we talking about anyway? One potato, two potato…it’s your life…, Michael Fernandes” Fuse Magazine 31, no. 1 (January 2008): 44–46.
  • “Conversations in Colour: Two generations of colour field painting in Canada, Eleanor Mackey & Sara McIntosh,” in Conversations in Colour (North Bay, ON: W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, 2006).


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ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou Smoke, and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Jessica Irene Joyce, Ira Kazi, 
Shelley Kopp, Jenna Rose Sands, Mireya Seymour, Venus Tsao, Diana Tamblyn, and Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.

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