Marion wagschal drawings of girls
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Griffiths/Simms/Wagschal/Werner Some girls
Invited Curator: James D. Campbell
Vernissage: Thursday, September 6 at 5 pm
Exhibition: September 7 to 29, 2007
The McClure Gallery is pleased to present Some Girls: Griffiths/Simms/Wagschal/Werner, curated by James D. Campbell. The exhibition focuses on the work of four contemporary Canadian painters who live and work in Montreal. Each corpus deals with portraiture in its own highly individualistic way and each contributes to a vital dialogue concerning the state of portraiture in contemporary art.
Eliza Griffiths’ sidereal work questions both self and Other across a vast psycho-socio-sexual terrain through the invention of characters that morph from male to female and vice versa.
Lorraine Simms’ portraits of female grifters question the extent of media infiltration in subjective experience – and how the extent of that infiltration shapes individual and social perceptions and values.
Marion Wagschal’s unique and unsparing realism, whose subjects are often intimate portraits of relatives, friends and acquaintances, is laden with duende, the brutal factuality of the flesh and the consequences of aging.
Janet Werner’s mood-laden paintings layer and juxtapose pictorial and psychological elements, often depicting the human
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Arsenal Contemporary Art Reveals Nine Young Artists Who Question Body Representation
Arsenal Contemporary Art is opened by appointment for its current exhibition, This Sacred Vessel (Part II), a part of a series of three exhibitions. While the first exhibition dealt with exploring how the relevance of a landscape painting is informed by ecological anxiety, the current one sheds light on figurative painting. Nine painters present their work questioning the codes and norms attached to gender and offering a new lease of life through various visions of women's bodies.
In an age where images of the human body are pervasive, Sarah Letovsky, Nadia Waheed and seven other artists reconfigure the symbolism of gender at the Arsenal Contemporary Art in New York. Through their skilled brushstrokes, they challenge several norms and perceptions around the human body. Waheed, one of the nine artists whose work is exhibited at the gallery, questions the meaning of being a woman through her paintings.
Conceptions: What Is a Woman?
Waheed spent her early life in various cities, namely Islamabad, Paris, Cairo and some cities of the US. As she moved from one country to another, the absurdity of some norms became obvious to her. Every culture had its o