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Warrior woman

Warrior woman

This week I’m participating in my second group show at Exposure Gallery, called Altered States. I have one of my metal prints, featuring the above image, on display. The show opens on Friday October 13th at 8pm, and runs until October 29th.

Exposure Gallery
851 Beatty Street
Vancouver BC
Thursday to Sunday, noon to 5pm.

Yesterday I made a trip to Opus to pick up a selection of cradle frames for a future project. It was very satisfying to spend money at an art supply store knowing I am going to make something wonderful with what I purchased. The anticipation of a new project is pretty fantastic.

Picture the Cure

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For those of you in the Toronto area, I have donated three of my digital artworks to be auctioned at Picture the Cure, a visual arts fundraiser to benefit the Canadian Cancer Society. The event will be held at the landmark Gladstone Hotel in Toronto on August 21.

Our goal for this year is to raise at least $5,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Proceeds will go towards:
* funding research on all types of cancer
* offering comprehensive and credible information on cancer, risk reduction and treatment
* providing support for people living with cancer, family members and friends

Join us for this one-evening event showcasing visual art by local and international artists, featuring:
* silent auction with more than 100 matted and framed prints
* live entertainment
* door prizes/raffles
* light fare

Details: Picture the Cure 2006
August 21 (Monday)
6pm-midnight
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto

Advance tickets: $10
At the door: $15

Plastic* at Mooncruise Gallery

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My mom’s feet (featured here in the invitation) is one of three holga photographs of mine featured in a toy camera show at Mooncruise Gallery.

mooncruise* | gallery presents:

PLASTIC*
An international group show of photography created with toy cameras.

Steve Barry, Levi Wedel, Jesse Louttit, Warren Harold, Rachael Ashe,
Tanya Goehring, Laura Burlton, Clare Yow, Ina Jang, Sean Frith, Noel
Bullock, Eleanor le Gresley, Brent Bennett, Vadim Marmer.

Opening July 14th 7.30pm to 10.30pm
The show run until Aug 31st

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mooncruise* | gallery
235 Cambie St. (Gastown)
Vancouver. BC. V6B 1E5
Canada
604.685.9575
mooncruisegallery.com

Metal Prints

As mentioned previously, I currently have two of my metal prints in the Divine Feminie show at Radha Yoga & Eatery (pictured here.) I thought I’d explain a bit about how I made them.

The prints are made from metal flashing, a material used in roof repairs and can be found at most hardware stores. The image is first printed upon a heat sensitive image transfer paper that is meant for photocopiers, and then transfered upon the metal using a heat press. Each piece of metal is pre-heated for ten seconds and then I had to carefully place and centre the images. The press is set to about 400 degrees, and each was left in for about thirty seconds. The image transfer paper has to be removed immediately, otherwise there is a risk of bits and pieces of the image peeling off as it cools. (Many fingers were burned in the process…)

This type of paper can be transfered onto many different surfaces as long as they’re flat. I’ve experimented with glass, wood and fabric, but I like the look of metal the best.

The Divine Feminine

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The Divine Feminine A great way to build up an artistic resume and get a sense of what’s involved in showing your work, is to enter group shows. I’ve done this quite a bit in the past, and have only recently gotten back into the habit of keeping an eye out for artist calls or juried shows to submit my work to.

I was thrilled when I heard about the upcoming “Divine Feminine” artshow at Radha Yoga and Eatery because I felt it was a theme very suited to my work. I’ve always had an interest in the goddess (as is evidenced by my choice of flickr name goddess_spiral) that evolved from a love of mythology as a kid, and developed further through personal study of female divinities from around the world.

Upon deciding to submit to the show, I selected two of my more recent digital images and reproduced them as metal prints using image transfer paper and a heat press. It’s the same process I used to create the work for my show last year at Wicked Cafe, and I will describe it further another time. I’ll be curious to check out how each artist chose to interpret the theme, and to see how well my own work will fit with everything else.

Radha yoga & eaterygoddess with lotus
Taken at Radha Yoga & Eatery, in June 2005.

The Divine Feminine exhibition
Radha Yoga & Eatery – 728 Main St.
March 31 – April 30
11:30 – 4:00 PM Monday to Friday
Featuring the art, photography, printmaking and fabric art of 31 artists! Curated by Eva Waldauf.

Bending Light magazine feature

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AntoniaI’m thrilled to announce the launch of the latest online issue of Bending Light Magazine. I was asked to contribute an article on “Overcoming the Anxiety of Portrait Photography”, as part of their current theme of Angst. It was a very interesting subject for me to explore and realize how far I’ve come since I first began photographing people. I am very pleased with the article, and would love to hear back from people about it. Please leave a comment for me here.

It was challenging to have to select only nine shots to accompany the piece and have them be a good representation of my portrait work. I wanted there to be a good variety of faces and poses, show some of my best recent portraits, and to not just use work I’ve featured before. I’m probably even more pleased with the image gallery than the article. I like it when my work looks so good.

Thank you to Ariela at Bending Light Magazine for selecting me to write on the subject, to Joanna for her usual fabulous editing assistance, and to all the lovely people who posed for me and are featured in the article.