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Gevik Gallery, Toronto 2010
Paintings by Sandra Hawkins
Imprint, acrylic and photo transfers of artist's writing on art history. 30" x 30" canvas
ImA Certain Formal Position, acrylic and photo transfers of artist's writing on art history, 30" x30".
Who Are We? Acrylyic mixed media on canvas, 30"h x 40"w
Gevik Gallery’s listing for this exhibition in Canadian Art Magazine on-line
“Special Exhibition: Celebrated artist, Sandra Hawkins: The Arctic Crisis Project, Parts 1 and 2.
Photomontage print series (2008-09) are a contemporary discussion on global warming and filtered
memory.” March 20, 2010 April 9, 2010
Artist Statement: Hand written notes on art history are embedded in these paintings as partially
revealed space where meaning becomes ambiguous, leaving room for viewer interpretation. Looking
at my paintings from a distance, I can see they hold precursory significance to the way I use my
writings as space in digital photomontage, video, installation and performance art. This exhibition will
illustrate the symbiotic aesthetic and investigative connections between these paintings (2000/01)
and the Arctic Crisis Project Parts 1 and 2 photomontage series (2008/09) of which four prints will
be showing beside the paintings. In the paintings, my writings on art history are reminder notes, just
as are the Arctic journals written thirty years ago. Their significance is open to contemporary
interpretation, now out of context, and repositioned as submerged and/or layered spaces.
For example, in the mixed media painting, Who Are We? (2000), reference is made to
Egyptian hieroglyphics by the vertical positioning of my hand writing, partially visible within the
textured acrylic mortar paint. In the same painting, I’ve used a cartouche -like shape as used
by Egyptian royalty in their signature. This shape holds an image of a feather in the painting,
the symbol of truth. http://www.sandrahawkins/exhibitions/33.htm
In the Arctic Crisis Project, Parts 1 and 2 photomontage print series (2008/09), digitally repainted photo based images of Arctic landscapes layered with my hand written journals continue a similar aesthetic investigation on the ecology of narrative identities in which the present continuously reshapes the past, and meaning.
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