From A Nice Day for Toast
From A Nice Day for Toast
From A Nice Day for Toast
"Cullen combines unrelated items using the technique of assemblage. She transforms ordinarypieces of fabric, foil and dried plants into new composites which transcend their individualmeanings. The result is a homogenous piece which explores displacement and immigration,imagination as a means to survive trauma, and people's relationship to the land." - RuthRaymond, Winnipeg Sun
"The two crowded rooms at Ace Art offer an emotionally evocative mixture of childhood heroes,glamor icons, cowboys, men who looked good in fedoras, masked avengers - all the visualwellsprings of personal and collective memories" - Alison Gillmor, Winnipeg Free Press
GAYLE FREED STERN - "This work is part of a larger group in progress on anyfamily'...the family that has for its offspring any man'. They attempt to reimagine from thechild's perspective physically and metaphysically. For the child, the world is transmittedsensorily to him. He is suffused by atmosphere. He does not necessarily view from a stationaryposition on the ground. He climbs, crouches, rides on high shoulders and often views fromoutside his physical self."
JOYCE BOWDEN - "The colours, shapes and textures of rocks and vegetation in theCanadian Shield have fascinated me for years. Experimenting with collograph techniques usingintaglio and relief inking on the same block and finding ways to produce the textures I want hasgiven me a way to express my feelings for these subjects."
BARB BALFOUR - "Ultimately, my reference is to the uplifting quality of the creativespirit, and the exploration of the ethereal beauty and mystery inherent in the organic."
GISELE BEAUPRE - "My work from 1987 to the present represents an expansion ofearlier themes; of self-examination, linking, cycles of history, androgyny, culminating inself-acceptance and knowledge. My desire was to create compassion in the viewer, throughidentification with the female."
SUSAN CRAWFORD - "I am a farmer, teacher, engineer and visual artist. I like topaint people in their environment with a focus on farmers and farming."
CECILE CLAYTON-GOUTHRO - "The marionette is life-size in scale (approximately6' including the crossbrace) and is entirely constructed from shoulder pads and detail trim. Nylon line anchor the main body and buskin slippers to the crossbrace. With minor adjustmentsit could actually be worn."
KATHARINA STIEFFENHOFER - "With this work I am contemplating a patriarchalsociety which celebrates Mother's Day, International Women's Day, Year of the Child - and howthis relates to the increasing violence against women and neglect of children."
ERLA GLESBY - "My work deals with narrative. I explore narrative both visually andalso through the juxtaposition of text with title."
MEGUN VUN WONG - "My artistic concerns deal with the distress of modern culturein terms of its prevalence of rationalism and its paucity of myth, of sentient wisdom."
DEREK BRUECKNER
DONNA COTE - "In our social environment, we often become numbers or lines ongraphs, both in relationships and in the workplace. In the paintings, the figures are oftenentangled in webs or lines, as if they were mere statistics."
ROSEMARY KOWALSKY - "These images of a dying birch tree are a metaphor forthe spiritual transition of the tree from life to death."
LOUISA GARBO - "My attempt to depict a simple story dealing with life and death. Iplaced strong focus on the physical and psychological relationships of the figures."
PATRICK TREACY - "The work displays my preoccupation of the question of what itmeans to be a man in a white male supremacist culture. I started with collage because itprovided me with the opportunity to engage with popular culture directly."
SHELLEY RUSEN - "A life is marked by events. Events of past, present and future. One may have especially deep feelings for the past. Those events which affect us the most; oneswhich we may have controlled, and others over which we had no control. To express theseevents and feelings, I use the figure."
ROBERT SAUVEY
RONALD LINDSAY - "The strongest link in the fabric of a traditional society is thehanding down of its culture across the generations. There lies the strength and continuity oftraditional northern cultures."
"APRIL" - a dialogue between music and spoken word performed by No DefinitePlans, involving local novelist and writer, Margeret Sweatman, and musicians TonyDesMarteaux and Paul Janzen.
"I FEEL FAINT" - a performance by Toronto artist Colette Urban.
"THE WOMAN WHO DREAMED IN MULTIPLE CITIES" - Alethea Lahofer,accomplished Winnipeg performance artist and writer, will continue where she left off last year. She will present her new, new work.
"DANNY KAYE'S EYES" - this audio performance combines the creative work ofwell-known Winnipeg artist Doug Melnyk (text) with that of Cathy Nosaty, Kevin Haines (audiotreatment), Ken Gregory (recording), Dora Foster, Sandra Lathbury, Davey Cooke (vocals), andWillard C. Scott (recording).
"FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY" - Scott Ellis will read from his recent work.
"KARAOKE SLIDE SHOW" - combines vocal and visual elements by local artistMarianne Jonasson.
"SONGS OF PEE-ONS" - Lloyd Brandson will present two musical interludes in avaudeville style.
Emcee for the evening is Ellen Peterson, principal of the Manitoba Theatre for School for YoungPeople. Stage Manager is Maggie Nagle.
"I deal with the objects on a purely visual basis. The text addresses a narrative voice as well asthe visual power of the word itself. Words are examined as symbols for their form as well astheir inherent connotations in language." - Karen Justl
From A Nice Day for Toast
From A Nice Day for Toast
"Misfit Lit is an exciting, at times profoundly offensive show of contemporary comic art, with asprawling, messy energy barely contained by the four Winnipeg galleries hosting it." - AlisonGillmor, Winnipeg Free Press
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