Tinted Smear / Untitled
Jennifer Waters & Patricia Pelletier
June 24 - August 1, 2001
Jennifer Waters
Tinted Smear
Tinted Smear frames the latest stage in the development of an iconography related to the reprecussions of violent encounters. Renderings from such sources as the expressions of extreme anguish on faces in Goya's lithographic series "Los Caprichos" and the grimaces of pleasure in pornographic photographs of women embody enheightened responses to external forces. Contrasting the figures are icons representing shifts in perceptions of the banal in the form of common objects such as tools, masks, fruit, gloves and other garments. Images are painted in saturated colors to evince a tone of visceral reaction.
Jennifer Waters lives and works in Toronto.
Patricia Pelletier
Untitled
Patricia Pelletier's latest body of work examines how society tries to conform men. Pelletier has created a series of plastic clothes covers- very reminiscent of dry cleaning bags. Each plastic bag is clear, sterile and almost identical when lined up next to each other. The plastic suit bags individual identity is only recognizable through the distinguishing feature of where and how plastic tubing is integrated within the bag.
Pelletier feels that "the body, eroticism, every day objects, death, sexuality, loss of identity and a clinical aestheticism are approached in my work by ambiguity through oddity and desire- strange as that may seem- resulting in a unique comprehension of the society in which I live."
Pelletier lives and works in Quebec City.
