First Fridays! – Diane Whitehouse - Mentoring Artists for Women's Art

member’s news
Katherine Bruce will be exhibiting recent drawings, paintings
and collaged mixed media work in Where do you Draw the Line?
at Site Gallery, 2nd floor, 55 Arthur Street, from December 2-30,
2003. Opening reception, Saturday December 6, 1-4pm.
Fay Jelly will exhibit her work at the Art Gallery of Southwestern
Manitoba in Brandon, from December 18, 2003 to February 8,
2004. Jennifer Woodbury writes: "Fay Jelly will present an
exhibition in December 2003 of her recent paintings of antique
lamps. Jelly cleverly uses the tradition of still life painting as an
ironic response to the painted female nude by imbuing the
inanimate objects with a languorous and very human sensuous
beauty."
Karen Cornelius will exhibit with INFINITE PROOF: An East
West Printmaking Collective December 3-20, 2003 at the Hong
Kong Institute of Education Gal-lery, Tai Po, Hong Kong.
A solo exhibition of recent paintings by Brigitte Dion, will run
from November 13, 2003 to January 4, 2004 at the Franco
Manitoban Cultural Centre (located at 340 Provencher
Boulevard). Everyone is welcome to attend the opening on
November 13 at 8:00 p.m.
Tonia Di Risio, of Halifax, has been invited to contribute a
Duratrans image derived from her existing series, Homemade
for the exhibition Illuminations, at Mount Saint Vincent University
Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, on display October 30, 2003
through until fall 2004. To prepare her tableau-style photo-graphs,
Di Risio sets up a doll's house peopled by photographic cutouts
of herself and her Italian-Canadian relatives. Though
photographed in directorial style, Di Risio's illusionism is
deliberately imperfect. Her pictures' "homemade" appearance
highlights questions of gender and ethnic difference that are
seam-lessly normalized in commercial photography. Homemade
will resonate decisively with the surrounding institutional
architecture, whose every detail declares public space to be
separate from private space.
Fay Jelly, Lamp I, 2003, 35" x 26" Oil on canvas)
Sandra Campbell will be showing a series of 16 x 20 b/w
photographs in an annual group exhibition. This year the theme
is Peace On Earth. Mennonite Heritage Art Gallery, 600
Shaftsbury Blvd. Winnipeg. The exhibition opens on November
14, 2003 at 7:30 and runs until January 3, 2004.
Haruko Okano will be conducting professional development
workshops at the Surrey Art Centre, 13750 88 Ave, Surrey, B.C.,
including Writing Grants and Proposals, Professional Artist
Kickstart, and Portfolio Makeover. For more infor-mation contact
the Surrey Art Centre at 604-501-5566.
The Magic of One Concert Series: A Collaborative Spoken Word
Concert Series With Storytellers and Musicians, organized in part
Brigitte Dion, Portal , 2003