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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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OUR STORY
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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. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White.

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. 

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

CURATORIAL ADVISORS:  Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner
WEB DESIGN: Tariq Hassan Gordon & Jade Williamson 
 
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Andreas Buchwaldt, Charlotte Egan, ​Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto, Mackenzie Smith, Jade Williamson
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE ADVISORY CIRCLE:
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner and Lucas Stenning 
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