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Missionary Position
SNAP Main Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
January 8 – February 21, 2009
Closing Reception: Thursday, February 19, 7-9pm.
Accubah, 2007, stone lithograph on frosted mylar, 36” x 24”
In Missionary Position, Joscelyn Gardner continues her xploration of the atrocities revealed in diary entries made by 18th century Jamaican plantation overseer, Thomas Thistlewood, in which he shamelessly recorded his countless sexual encounters with dependent female slaves. Both attractive and repellant, these elegantly stylized images of the tools of torture used during slavery entwined within exquisitely braided Afro-centric hairstyles seduce the viewer and open up a space for contemplating the shared (repugnant) experience of slavery and its after-effects. While giving a voice to the women who were often lost to anonymity on colonial plantations, they simultaneously veil the repulsiveness of the painful history they both trace and subvert. By referencing colonial printed portraiture, “natural” history books, and cartography that functioned to confirm particular forms of (constructed) knowledge, the work questions the depravity of the plantation system and leaves the viewer to ponder the wider implications of a colonial discourse which supported the violent subordination of enslaved peoples as a ‘natural’ right of white (male) privilege.
Joscelyn Gardner is a Caribbean/Canadian visual artist working primarily with print-making and multi media installation whose practice focuses on her (white) Creole identity from a postcolonial feminist perspective. She has an MFA from the University of Western Ontario and a BFA (Printmaking) & BA (Film) from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in the USA, Canada, and the Caribbean, and in group exhibitions in South and Central America, India, and Europe. Recent group exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum, New York (2007), International Print Center New York (2007), International Print Triennial Vienna, Austria (2007); Fondation Clement, Martinique (2008). She currently teaches in the School of Contemporary Media at Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, and works as an artist between Canada and the Caribbean.
Contact:
Katherine Thompson, Executive Director
Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists,
10309 – 97 Street,
Edmonton, T5J 0M1,
Alberta, Canada
T. 1-780-423-1492
E. snap@snapartists.com
W. www.snapartists.com
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Is the author of the new book, Creating Books & Boxes: Fun and Unique Approaches to Handmade Structures. This wonderful new book is now available in all major book stores and online distributors.
Whether you’re new to book making or an experienced paper artist looking for new ideas, Creating Books & Boxes will provide you with hours of creative inspiration. Author Benjamin Rinehart covers all the basics of book and box construction, such as tools, adhesives, archival properties, cutting, and terminology, but then adds unique twists to make the book’s 11 projects surprising, fun, and dimensional.
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Eleanor Dickinson and Lisa Renz recieved their MFAs from the University
of Tennessee in Spring 2007 and are currently in the process of starting
a printshop in Little Rock, Arkansas. The name of the printshop is
Rockhopper and it will be a teaching facility (relief, monoprint,
intaglio, screenprint, photo-polymer plates, bookbinding), gallery, and
will sell printed materials and printmaking supplies. Memberships will
be available to those wishing to reserve time to print on the presses.
Studio rental will be available for hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly
rates. |
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Erika Adams accepted a position of visiting faculty at the School at the Museum of Fine Arts beginning this fall. Her work will be shown in two solo exhibitions this fall; first at the Kitchenette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona, November 17th- 30th. Then, her exhibition entitled "The Desire for Meaning in Phenomena", will be shown at the Roger's Gallery at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky December 21st-January 28th. She also just completed her first publishing project, a book of poems and images entitled "Wrestle" made in collaboration with poet Nick Norwood. |
Shaurya Kumar accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University this fall to set up a curiculum to integrate al 2D traditional methods with digital. |
Marc Cote received a purchase award at the University of
Wisconsin/Parkside National Small Print Exhibition for his intaglio
print "White Cowboy." Cote will have a solo show in July, 2007 at the Conwell Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information email Marc at mcote@frc.mass.edu. |
April Katz, associate professor of printmaking at Iowa State University currently has a one-person exhibition, "April Katz: Recording Our Lives" at the Sister Rosaire Gallery, Saint Mary's College, South Bend, Indiana from September 29 - October 27, 2006.
The exhibition included an installation called Her Days: Page by Page, consisting of 30 4' x 3' prints on transparent mylar; collaged monoprints and digital prints; and an artist's book called SAINT MARY'S: RECORDING LIVES, 34 DAYS (266/099 to 300/065)
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In November, the artwork of Janet Marcavage will be included in
Aesthetics/Analytics, an upcoming group exhibition which explores the
intersection of art and science at the Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales
Gallery.
During the same month, her work will also be included in Project Creo:
Digital Divide/Digital Provide at The Arts Center in Saint Petersburg,
Florida. The work in this group exhibition explores how the digital
revolution has improved and divided our society.
In the spring, Marcavage's work will appear in STONE_ PLATE_ GREASE_
WATER, a survey of international contemporary lithography at The Museum for Modern Art in Machynlleth, Wales.
Marcavage will also have a solo exhibition in the spring at Ice box
contemporary art in Tacoma, WA.
For more information, go to:
janetmarcavage.com/exhibitions.html |
Bill Fisher, Assistant Professor of Art at Georgia College & State University has print and sculptural work featured in "America on the Brink" at the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, September 9th-November 6. For more information please see athica.org |
Maria G. Pisano's book "Vita Defuncta" ( Memory Press 2005) has been
accepted into the Guild of Book Workers 100th anniversary exhibit which can be seen at the Grolier Club in New York, from Sept. 20 - Nov. 25, 2006. Please view exhibit at: palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw.
Maria G. Pisano will be one of the presenters at this year's New Jersey Book
Arts Symposium, which takes place at Newark, NJ, Rutgers Dana Library on
November 3, 2006. For more information please contact: mjoseph@rci.rutgers.edu.
Maria G. Pisano is a presenter at the Construction of Death, Mourning and
Memory Conference in Woodcliff Lake, NJ on Oct 27-29. The paper "Book Artists Speaking about Death in their Art." is part of the panel "Artists Speaking about Death in Their Art." Please visit aurorajournal.org,
for more information.
Maria G. Pisano's books "The Four Elements" can be viewed at "Telling the
Story: Artists' Books" exhibit at the Noyes Museum of Art, in Oceanville, NJ,
Sept 30 - Dec. 10, 2006. e-mail: Info@noyesmuseum.org. |
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Anne-Berit Sheppard
Implicated Fate
Etching/Relief, 2009.
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