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 A Certain Formal Position, acrylic and photo transfers of artist's writing on art history. 30 x 30 inches, canvas |
 Who Are We? Acrylyic and Mixed media, 30 h x 40 w inches, canvas |
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Gevik Gallery's listing for this exhibition in Canadian Art Magazine on-line Artist Statement: Hand written notes on art history are embedded in these paintings as partially revealed space where meaning becomes ambiguous, leaving room for viewer interpretation. Looking at my paintings from a distance, I can see they hold precursory significance to the way I use my writings as space in digital photomontage, video, installation and performance art. This exhibition will illustrate the symbiotic aesthetic and investigative connections between these paintings (2000/01) and the Arctic Crisis Project Parts 1 and 2 photomontage series (2008/09) of which four prints will be showing beside the paintings. In the paintings, my writings on art history are reminder notes, just as are the Arctic journals written thirty years ago. Their significance is open to contemporary interpretation, now out of context, and repositioned as submerged and/or layered spaces. For example, in the mixed media painting, Who Are We? (2000), reference is made to Egyptian hieroglyphics by the vertical positioning of my hand writing, partially visible within the textured acrylic mortar paint. In the same painting, I've used a cartouche -like shape as used by Egyptian royalty in their signature. This shape holds an image of a feather in the painting, the symbol of truth. http://www.artengine.ca/sandra/exhibitions/33.htm In the Arctic Crisis Project, Parts 1 and 2 photomontage print series (2008/09), digitally repainted photo based images of Arctic landscapes layered with my hand written journals continue a similar aesthetic investigation on the ecology of narrative identities in which the present continuously reshapes the past, and meaning.
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