Gallery Exhibits – Solo Exhibitions
My solo exhibitions include:
The Return of the Goddess Exhibit:
Throughout my career, I have been captivated by the archaeology of the ancient Western world and the theme of feminine empowerment, mystical journeys, and mythological figures.
Underneath a tranquil surface, a troubling phenomenon of climate change is taking hold of planet Earth.
The Aerial Views, Generations, and Sacred Ground Skin & Bones Exhibits:
This work developed from the Site/Sight Icons, as I continued working on these small-scale multi-media collages with an aerial view perspective, giving a sense of not being of this world but viewing, nonetheless.
These works center around the idea of generations, and several different creative streams emerged from this theme.
Sacred Ground is a space of quiet solitude and mystery where something “Other” speaks and the inner mind and heart listen.
The Abstract Works Exhibits:
These include Continuum, Spring Green Awakening, Heroics, and Labyrinths exhibits.
This body of work deals with the notion of one’s spiritual practice. After meeting His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, I was concerned with spiritual essence, the Cosmos and Buddhism and how that is reflected in abstract paintings symbolizing a method of moving through the world.
This series of paintings was developed for a corporate client for a large public lobby at Robson Square Conference Centre in Vancouver. The themes of the works were emotional landscapes such as in the large diptych titled Spring GreenAwakening.
This body of work dealt with the notion of transcendence – rising above the idea of duality. In this work, I thought of specific heroic individuals in their lives, like Mother Theresa. The triangle represented the figure and was a symbol of intelligence, strength, and spirituality.
In this work I explored the notion that the experience of life is like a journey through a labyrinth with all the inherent pitfalls and dead ends, mis-starts and then the final release. The labyrinth became a powerful symbol for pairs of opposites like male/female, inner/outer, and in the ancient world order/chaos and time/space.
Earlier Works Exhibits:
These included the Cigar Box Series, Diverse Harmony, Presence, and Two Women.
A development of my collage work with the Aerial Views series of work on non-traditional surfaces such as ironing boards was a playful new series on Cuban cigar boxes.
This exhibition with the celebrated ceramic artist Jeannie Mah and myself showed the kinship between our thematic concerns, even when the materials used were very diverse in nature and scale, yet connected by the themes and content in our works.
I developed an organic series relating to the body in oil paint on transparent paper or vellum surfaces.
Two Women
In this exhibit with printmaker Catherine Shapiro at the Chrysalis Gallery, we showed work that was pertinent to our lives as working women artists.
The Pressed Memories Exhibits:
Pressed Memories at Maple Ridge Gallery
This body of work, Pressed Memories, began with found wooden ironing boards transformed into marking stones, obelisks, or altar-like pieces, and in this sense, a container of the lives lived.
Pressed Memories at Richmond Art Gallery
I continued my exploration of the Ironing Board concept of being the marker or marking stones for the lives women lead and their experiences, and how the ironing boards could be read in very different ways.
Radiant Pressed Memories (Artropolis #2 in ’93)
In this large exhibit, I created an installation envisioning the House of the Vestal Virgins in the Roman Forum.
Site: Sight and Posited By Physical Agency Exhibit:
In this collaboration with artist Brad Chernoff at the Burnaby Art Gallery, we looked at ancient sacred sites, temples, and the sighting of the Oracle.