Artropolis: locals contribute

A Review: North Shore Artists
in Artropolis 90 at the Round-
house, 1200 Pacific Blvd.,
Vancouver. Oct. 19 to Nov.
18.

RTROPOLIS 90 is a
A warehouse-size ex-

hibition of artworks
by three generations of B.C.

artists.

By Archie Graham
Arts Critic

Though it includes repre-
sentative pieces by heavies like
Jack Shadbolt, Roy Kiyooka, and
Bill Featherston, it takes its man-
date from the October Show of
1983 in providing a venuc to
showcase younger, emerging ar-
tists who are not yet part of the ar-
tistic establishment.

Not least among these are a
number of residents from the
North Share and surrounding
districts.

Theresa Stee!’s photographs of a
single white dress against a black
background are part of a declared
quest for self-identity.

She shoots the dress out of focus
on a hanger, draped over a torso,
and in the process of being
removed. There is no significant
sexual content here, but one

Before

wants to see through the dress to
the person underneath,

This desire is not satisfied in
these pictures, of course, and they
end up evoking not so much the
presence of a specific person as
the absence of personality itself.

The Validity of a Portrait is an
experiment on the same theme in
a different medium which is used
by painter, Monique Mees, to add
another dimension to the search.

Her four enlarged portraits of St.
Anne as she appears in Leonardo
da Vinci's Madonna of the Rochs
are part of an ongoing study of
resemblance — the resemblance
between St. Anne and, the artist
tells us, herself.

Each portrait, rendered in a dif-
ferent historical style, alludes to
the contentious and sensitive issue
of how women are represented in
art and history. Enlarged to the
proportions of a landscape it
becomes a magnified map of the
variegated territory of the female
psyche.

Carol Pantages applies paint in
layers on a square wooden surface
to generate the texture of stone.
Old letters that may have been
found in a dusty attic-chest,
English cigarette cards, and pages
torn from an aging, musty book
are combined on a painted Jand-
scape that looks like a photograph
faded by time. The surface is

scored with what the artist calls
“cryptic Messages.”

Pantages writes in the catalogue
that her two works, Dorothy and
Came So Far For Beauty, are
“memorials to lost loved ones.’
They are more like weatherbeaten
gravestones colored for effect, or
strange, alluring missives from the
dead,

Davide Pan is also interested in
death, but anly for the sake of
transforming it into fife. With his
wry sense oof humor,

Pan is) comfortable with
contradictions,

His construction, assembled
from steel shelving and large paint
cans (the handles of which
become part of the composition),
is welded together to resemble not
only a nuclear missile with the
jaws of an alligator, but the body
ot a winged fish.

The whole apparatus is mounted
on wheels found in a back alley. It
can be viewed as a rather prim toy
oras a kind of monument to
ecology, recycling garbage into art
and transforming an instrument of
death inte a symbol of life.

Space does not permit me to
review the many other North
Shore artists included in Artropolis
90, but it should be said that all
make a significant contribution to
the lively spirit of the exhibition.

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