Uncharted Waters
DIGNAM GALLERY
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Exhibition Details:
Uncharted Waters
April 13 – 30, 2022
DIGNAM GALLERY
Tuesday – Saturday
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Open House
Saturday April 23, 1-3 p.m.
Meet the artists at 2 p.m.
To visit, or for more informationt:
(416) 922-2060, or waac@womensartofcanada.ca
Connect:
@womensartofcan
The Women’s Art Association of Canada is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring the 2021/2022 WAAC Studio Artists.
The artistic perspectives brought together in this show of current works by studio artists of WAAC, create a collective statement of creative resilience in face of the pandemic experience. While each artist has distinctive processes and ways of working, this show conveys the current community pulse, and welcomes participation by all who visit.
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Artist Talks from Opening on April 23
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Featured Works
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About the Artists
Barbara Andersen
BIO and PORTFOLIO
Uncharted Waters represented to me the unknowns and challenges all faced during the pandemic. “Turbulence” was everywhere in the world at the beginning. “Marsh Waters” represents uncertainty. Is there quicksand? Where is the bottom? “Simplicity” is when we found gratefulness for simple pleasures and many revisited life priorities. “Confusion” occurred with each new wave of lockdowns just as we thought we were in the clear. “Calm” represents the hopefulness for the future, and brings with it the question of what is ahead?
Jaspal Birdi
BIO and PORTFOLIO
Judith Davidson-Palmer
BIO and PORTFOLIO
Memories are especially relevant in a pandemic world. Sometimes dark, sometimes light, sometimes hidden, or stored away, fragmented and the mind’s version of things past with only a hint of what is to come. The Robert Frost poem starts: “Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice”. With war, world pandemic and climate change anything is possible including redemption and order out of chaos. The future is uncharted!
Carolyn Jongeward
BIO and PORTFOLIO
Uncharted Waters evokes the sense of moving into the unknown. “Free to Flourish” was painted during the early weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; blue and yellow recalls the Ukrainian colours, greens and biomorphic forms indicate the promise of growth, and the title expresses a sincere wish for the people of Ukraine. “Good Earth Basket” emerged as a large central circle on a deep blue ground: a planet in space. As I worked, the circular colour-patterning evoked a basket weave and also a strong sense of the Earth, our home, as a beneficent basket of life we are called to care for.
Diane Kruger
“Radiance” brings unexpected brilliant blooms. “Joy” is taking pleasure in nature during lockdown.
Marjorie Moeser
BIO and PORTFOLIO
“Impending Storm” is a foreshadowing of things to come. We sense a disturbance in the world, not so far off. None of us knows what the dangers are, nor the havoc that may be wreaked on an unsuspecting harmonious Nature. “Encrypted Dream” is A surreal vision. Fascinating yet frightening. While we cannot see the virus with the naked eye, a microscope tells us what its shape is like. In this dreamscape, images are one minute dauntingly real, and in the next, evanescent.
Patricia Paolini
BIO and PORTFOLIO
“Beacon” represents a source of light and inspiration. As a vessel it holds life giving water for flowers and foliage placed within. Liana vines provide safe passageways for animals traversing their forest habitat. In “Liana Oceanus”, equivalent submerged routes exist in our oceans. The Liana form represents safe passage for all.
Janet f Potter
BIO and PORTFOLIO
With my usage of vintage windows, I have created a work addressing a wide range of results from our changing weather and Covid, in Brigus, Newfoundland. Living by the sea, your number of rainy days are more. But due to climate change, you are now getting even more rainy days, which has affected hanging out your laundry on your clothes line (local custom). More people are now purchasing dryers for their homes as a result.
Hortensia Reyes
BIO and PORTFOLIO
Responsibility in fashion relates to the care of our environment and even on the care on our own human health. Alpaca has a great relationship with her environment, they are ecologically friendly animals. Using alpaca fibre made me reflect on my responsibility as a maker, choosing materials that do not harm the environment. In the wearable alpaca purse, I am inspired by the Neo-conceptual artist Jenny Holzer’s work, focused on the delivery of ideas in public spaces, and also by the phrase “Because There is no Planet B” that belongs to an organization of the same name (https://becausetheresnoplanetb.com/). I am using LED as a media to express my concern about our planet.
Leslie Crabtree Savage
“Blue Doors” depicts doors of a shed at the JEH MacDonald homestead in Markham, where I sketched during the first summer of Covid, a time certainly “uncharted.” The painting is a literal interpretation of the many doors that closed the winter of 2020-21.
Wenda Watt
“Energy” is my response to the emotional rapids endured, ignored, and faced since March 2020 when mask, distance, sanitizer, Zoom, vaccine and boosters grew to be necessity as has individual resilience.
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