Final Days: January 22nd to 26th , 2014
Sheryl Dudley - Between Here and There
A new mixed media installation by Dudley documents unsettling moments
in the space between places. Her photographs and works on paper catalogue a
personal trove of mementos, talismans, and ancestral objects. Wrapping and
unwrapping countless objects during a recent move inspired this series of
intimate mixed-media drawings. They came about in a circuitous way beginning
with a remembered motif from the artist's family history. The objects depicted
trace her lineage and its fracture - but most of all, the erosion of memory and
material things over time.
Dudley’s paintings and
photographs have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the
United States and Canada. Her work can be found in many private collections on
both sides of the border.
Mary Catherine Newcomb - the Woods
In the Woods, Newcomb presents a small series of
sculptures as platforms for presenting and contemplating natural material that
she harvested in the wild and/or cultivated. the Woods refers to a small plot of
land that has been in her family for several generations - a repository
of memory and crucible for mythologies. A return to the woods (and the lake) in
the summer of 2013 inspired this work that contemplates layers of personal
meaning apprehended in details of a familiar landscape and examines a
relationship between art and nature.
Newcomb’s work has been widely
exhibited both here and abroad and has garnered numerous grants and awards. She
currently resides in Kitchener, Ontario and teaches in the Visual and Creative
Arts program at Sheridan College.
