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The Gaze of History
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The Gaze of History exhibition presented a series of prints and drawings from the Burnaby Art Gallery's collection that considered the gaze and directed looking. The powdered graphite faces I drew directly on the walls of the gallery interacted and responded to these framed works and represented the real and imagined former residents of this building.
“Fairacres,” as it was first known, was built as a retirement estate by Vancouver realtor Henry Ceperley and his wife Grace in 1910. Prior to its conversion to the gallery in 1967, the mansion housed a succession of wealthy families, beginning with the Ceperleys (1910-1939), a community of Benedictine monks (1939-1954), a controversial religious cult (1954-1965) and a university fraternity (1965-1966).
Rawr- a series
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The Darkness
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A ongoing series of drawings.
Dimensions variable, heads range from approx. 20 X 13 cm to 24 x 18 cm
Twins
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The series Twins represents a pair of conjoined twins whose bodies and identities personify an experience that is deeply relational—where boundaries between one and the other can’t be clearly articulated.
Series of 39 drawings, each 14 x 9 cm
Family (Yoon)
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The 680 drawings that make up the Family (Yoon) project are based on photos of thirty-four individuals, representing three generations of a large, diasporic family. Each face has been drawn multiple times, with brush and ink on rice paper.
Dimensions variable, heads range from approx. 20 X 13 cm to 25 x 20 cm
