Brent Roe (born 1956) is an artist who uses words and sentence fragments in his paintings to challenge aesthetic and philosophical ideas.

Career

Brent Roe was born in

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, Ontario. He graduated from

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in Toronto with his Masters in Fine Art in 1983. His doodle and cartoon-like paintings received comment in the

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for their social comment in 1984. In 1985, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa held the exhibition ''The Expanding World of Brent Roe'' which featured 29 works tracing humankind`s relationship (or lack of it) with the natural world as well as Roe`s evolution over the previous five years. That same year, Mercer Union in Toronto included him in a collaborative room painting. Since then, Roe has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, notably a 10-year survey of his work titled ''new things will happen'' at the Koffler Gallery in Toronto in 1998 and ''Who Means What - Brent Roe: Paintings 1992-2001'' at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston in 2002, curated by John Armstong. In 2007, the words "see you tomorrow" in one of his paintings were used as the title of an exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre about new ways of thinking about landscape. In 2013, Brent Roe and Scott Cameron (aka Scotch Camera) joined an art show titled "Art Pioneers" with Pockets Warhol, a Capuchin monkey, at the Gladstone hotel in Toronto. In 2015, he participated in the exhibition "Ghost and Echoes" at yumart gallery in Toronto. Brent Roe lives and works in Toronto.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roe, Brent 1956 births Artists from Oshawa Canadian male painters York University alumni 21st-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian painters Living people 20th-century Canadian male artists 21st-century Canadian male artists