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The Hamilton Spectator, 1998 Weekend, TWO SHOWS AT BAC Tomorrow, two exciting new exhibits open at the Burlington Art Centre, 1333 Lakeshore Rd. in Burlington. Bodies Of Memory is a show of work by Corrine Duchesne, V.J. Gordon, Juliet Jancso, Roberta McNaughton and Mary Catherine Newcomb. It will be in the main gallery. Sister, Family, Home is an installation in the Perry Gallery by Jason Avery, Fiona Kinsella and Paul Lisson. It is a narrative display which tells the story of the body. Accompanying the installation is a book with words and images by the artists, also called Sister, Family, Home, with original engravings by artist, printer and publisher Wesley Bates. The Hamilton Spectator Weekend, Saturday, January 24, 1998, p. W4 Artscape Body painting: Rewarding shows at the Burlington Art Centre examine the human forms and all its issues Jeff Mahoney Also at the BAC, in the Perry Gallery, is Sister, Family, Home, by Hamilton artists Jason Avery, Fiona Kinsella and Paul Lisson. It also deals in many ways with issues of the body, but in a much different style. The art of Avery, Kinsella and Lisson is more about process, about the leveling out of high and low cultural images and materials, and about posture. Lisson, for example, uses old Oriental-flavoured prints of birds in trees in fancy frames spliced with coloured photocopies of his collection of Russian dolls. These are the kind that open up to reveal other dolls inside, but Lisson puts plastic skeletons inside instead. Kinsella uses doilies, lace napkins and table runners, on red velvet under glass, onto which she transfers images from all kinds of sources, including medical texts and professional wrestling. Avery also uses skeleton imagery in his art, sculpting dancing bone-figures out of copper and wire. Very cleverly done. The themes of the title, Sister Family Home, do not seem to be very specifically addressed by the art itself, though they are in the writings that surround the show. But the pieces in the show are a lot of fun to look at, and trigger some serious ideas as well with the questions they throw open about camp and craft, about spirituality and body, and about cultural politics, everything from the construction of female identity to the cost of doing art in the cash-strapped '90s. Among the highlights of the show are the eloquent program essay by Robert Clark Yates and the beautiful accompanying book, also entitled Sister, Family, Home, done by Hamilton engraver and publisher Wesley Bates. Take a trip to the BAC and catch both these very rewarding shows. Sister, Family, Home runs to Feb. 23. |
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