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Catalogue Reviews
A handful of attractive recent exhibition catalogues, as well as archived catalogue reviews.
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In this issue… NOVEMBER 2011 – JANUARY 2012
Travelers: Objects of Dream and Revelation
Bellevue Arts Museum
Bellevue WA – Aug 26-Dec 31, 2011
APEX: Adam Sorensen
Portland Art Museum
Portland OR – Sep 3-Jan 1, 2012
Group Exhibition/
Emotional Blackmail
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
Lethbridge AB – Sep 24-Nov 13, 2011
The Artist’s Touch, The Craftsman’s Hand: Three Decades of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum
Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR – Oct 1-Jan 22, 2012
Marion Llewelyn: Snow Asylum
Bellevue Gallery
West Vancouver BC – Oct 13-Nov 12, 2011
David Mayrs:
After That All Hell Broke Loose
Trench Contemporary Art
Vancouver BC – Oct 20-Nov 12, 2011
Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita & Kenjiro Nomura
Seattle Asian Art Museum
Seattle WA – Oct 22-Feb 19, 2012
Lesley Dill’s Poetic Visions
Whatcom Museum
Bellingham WA – Oct 23-Mar 4, 2012
Studies in Decay
Or Gallery
Vancouver BC – Oct 29-Dec 10, 2011
Nature, Knowledge
and the Knower
Satellite Gallery
Vancouver BC – Oct 29-Jan 14, 2012
Folk Treasures of Mexico
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma WA – Oct 29-Feb 19, 2012
Jerry Pethick
Simon Fraser University Gallery
Burnaby BC – Nov 5-Dec 17, 2011
Kate Scoones:
Wish You Were Here
Polychrome Fine Arts
Victoria BC – Nov 13-Dec 1, 2011
Kai McCall, Mo Tan and Kwan Yu
Jacana Gallery
Vancouver BC – Nov 15-Dec 18, 2011
Robert Orchardson:
Endless façade
Contemporary Art Gallery
Vancouver BC – Nov 18-Jan 15, 2012
Joe David and
Preston Singletary
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver BC – Nov 19-Dec 10, 2011
Norman Lundin: Inside/Outside
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Salem OR – Nov 19-Jan 22, 2012
Ray Mead (1921-1998)
Granville Fine Art
Vancouver BC – Nov 26-Dec 10, 2011
Douglas Coupland: Twelve Slogans for the Early Twenty-first Century
TrépanierBaer Gallery
Calgary AB – Dec 8-Jan 14, 2012
Greg Snider
Deluge Contemporary Art
Victoria BC – Jan 27-Feb 25, 2012
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KATE SCOONES
EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL
JOE DAVID / PRESTON SINGULTARY
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
NORMAN LUNDIN
JERRY PETHICK
FOLK TREASURES
OF MEXICO
DAVID MAYRS
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Leslie Dill, Sister Gertrude Morgan Wedding Dress, detail from Hell Hell Hell / Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan and Revelation (2010) [Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA, Oct 23-Mar 4] Courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
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Lesley Dill’s Poetic Visions
Whatcom Museum
Bellingham WA – Oct 23-Mar 4, 2012
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Lesley Dill, Dress of Solace and Undoing (2006), metal foil, organza, wire [Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA, Oct 23-Mar 4] Courtesy of George Adams Gallery, New York
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Lesley Dill, Hell Hell Hell / Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan and Revelation, detail [Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA, Oct 23-Mar 4] Courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
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Lesley Dill’s innovative art practice combines elements of language, poetry, performance and multi-media visual art to explore themes of faith and spirituality through the human form and its coverings.
Throughout her career lyrical vocabulary has been a binding factor in Dill’s artworks, serving as a bridge to the inner world of universal emotions and complexities. The Poetic Visions exhibit focuses on two bodies of work; metallic sculptures like Shimmer and a 2010 installation based on the life of Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980), a New Orleans preacher and missionary who used her music and art as tools of her ministry.
For the installation Hell Hell Hell/Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan and Revelation, Dill constructed two lavish gowns to reflect Morgan’s early life and her life after she experienced a divine revelation that she had been chosen to be the bride of Christ. The white-based wedding gown, adorned with text and cascading train-like banners that speak of her calling, is visually connected to the other black-based dress in a unified space draped with poetic references. The strong use of meaningful words string together a journey between heaven and hell, dark and light, good and evil.
Shimmer, the other main piece that composes the core of this show, is a dramatic oceanic wall-mounted work made of thousands of feet of silvery wire threads. The cascading 60-foot-long sculpture is integrated with the mystical poetry of Salvador Espriu (1913-1985) and materiality evokes a relationship between the physical and the spiritual. Metaphoric imagery in Dill’s installations illuminates aspects of the diversity of faith traditions and the underlying notions of transcendental experience.
www.whatcommuseum.org
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Lesley Dill, Woman Bringing Light, cut-out from Hell Hell Hell / Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan and Revelation (2010), ink and thread on paper [Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA, Oct 23-Mar 4] Courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
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