Alhamra Gallery, Lahore Arts Council, Pakistan 2009
Available Light
Curator: Dr. M. Korp
Lucy Arai, Cecile Boucher, Sandra Hawkins, Sylvia Klein, Hans Mettler, Norman Takeuchi
Reviews: Daily Times: Dawn.com
Reversal ©2007 by Sandra Hawkins. Video projection. The mirroring of rhythmic, back-and-forth, reversing action of rushing glacier water embodies liminal spaces for imagination and metaphors of the life cycle. *Photo taken at Banff Centre Other Gallery March 2009
Golden Pond ©2007. by Sandra Hawkins. Video projection. Mandala-like shifting patterns are created with the mirroring of camera action over vegetated river water. *Photo taken at Banff Centre Other Gallery March 2009
Alhamra Gallery Exterior, Lahore Pakistan. Pictures from Alhamra website
Alhamra Gallery Interior, Architect Mr. Nayyar Ali Dada.
Gallery architecture won covetted Agha Khan International Award
Sandra Hawkins Artist Statement
The Arctic Crisis Project: Parts 1 & 2 is a series of thirty photomontage archival quality inkjet prints on fine art paper. They deal with issues of global forces and intimate spaces, and the intersection of these public and personal narratives as one memory-filtered experience. The Arctic pictorial elements derive from the artist’s personal photographic and written journals of January/February 1981 while traveling there as a preventative health educator. Using contemporary technology these original sources are reinvented by their editing and juxtapositions with each other, and with digital transparent image of New York City, vulnerable to flooding with melting of the Arctic ice. The photomontage process thereby reinvents meaning, evoking the simultaneity of past, present and future, the intersection of personal and public narrative, the interconnection of the whole.
The Alhamra Gallery’s exceptional architecture was designed by the illustrious Architect Mr. Nayyar Ali Dada comprises 11,000 square feet on three floors. The building was awarded the covetted Agha Khan International Award for excellent architecture. It is part of the Lahore Arts Council which has two campuses with five auditoriums of varying capacity, two art galleries, an open-air theatre and classrooms for training in music, theatre and arts.
Available Light, curated by Dr. Maureen Korp of Ottawa, brings together the art of six artists: Lucy Arai (USA), Cecil Boucher (CA), Sandra Hawkins (CA), Sylvia Klein (CA), Hans Mettler (Germany) and Norman Takeuchi (CA).