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AMORAL- 1992, Oil and ink on canvas. The centrepiece of Monique Mees’ show at the Catriona
Jetisies Gallery (1009 Cambie Sit.j. The former West Vancouver artist’ 's work poses a series of
"Shalienges fer the gallery-goer.

Fresh ai

: ‘Monique Mees constantly questions the changing
meaning. of appropriated imagery in. her paintings

Sharing the same frame is a
_black and white ink on canvas
- depicting three questionable

Obvious is something she’s ‘net.
Mees’ intellectual bent is not
easy on the casual gallery-goer.
characters engaged in a surreal Her constant questioning of the
free-for-all on a bed. changing meaning of oft-ap-
_-. The painting is a slight departuse Challenges. images poses a Series of
from Mees’ recent work: most of chail lenges.
the artworks on display at the :
“Catriona Jeffries Gailery are studies
in deconstruction, in which Mees
- attempts to dissect and reorganize
images from widely recognized
. representational art.
Shiny sed apples, ready-to-eat
- bananas, human ears, horses’. 05.
heads and witch's incantations are
- superimposed in oif andink on:
19th century lithographs, images ~
from the work of Goya and sur-
realist. Max Ernst.
Mees; who graduated from West
“5 Hillside secondary,

HE LAST time we’
fieard about the » °*.
“ Balmoral Hotel it oe

See Int'l page 37

Today the skid row flop house,
th its snaking neon sign, is mak

g an- appearance at the recently .

located Catriona Jeffries Gallery.
A painting of the infamous hotel

is the centrepiece of a new exhibit

by former-West Vancouver artist ..
lonique Mees, whose Main and:

Hastings studio just happens to be...

ituated cheek- by- -jow! with:th
hotel.” =:

In the piece, Mees has cast the |
age of the decaying rooming ©
house in irony: with the fetters -
“B" and “i burned out on the

gays she is amazed at how quickly
her work changes — what she was
producing even one year ago is
vastly different from her current
“output,

‘But she never thought her en- ©
vircament — places like the
Balmoral — would start showing -

pin her paintings.

“My new work reflects the
sacial torditions I'm living in —

” skid row,” laughs Mees, 27, who

is playing with a lon; single braid
of ash brown hair. ‘I never
thought I'd put it into my painting,
at feast not in such an obvious

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