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HERE ARE 10 large paintings of pregnant

women on display at the Women in Focus Lateral Gallery, one for every year that West Vancouver artist Joy Zemel Long spent reflec- ting on her own pregnancy.

They are tmposing figures of featureless women with exag- gerated bulges waiting patiently tor the final hour of delivery, some revealing enormous naked bloated bellies and monumental rear ends: others wrapped loosely in cloaks or dresses, hand propped up under chin, looking pensive and self-absorbed.

The works make up a series en- titled Women Waiting, created 10 years after the birth of Zemel Long's daughter Frances.

The show has been organized by Women in Focus, which is at- tempting to find a place for the

“t THINK artists relive things that happen to them,’’ says West Vancouver artist Joy Zemel Long. With her series of paintings, p Women Waiting, Zemel Long attempts to recapture the missed names and work of women artists experience of pregnancy. Her show is currently on display at the in the annals of Canadian art his- Women in Focus Lateral Gallery until Oct. 14. ; nes . ; tory. ree Academy Awards, racoting Best Spat Actor. Action and Troma combine i in “one of the great

it’s the first time the series has of reasons. Zemel Long. a purging of past sut- fi the deoder (ichoel Medved, SNEAK | PREVIEWS) Devon ACA Comming Pactaces Home Video Al Raghts Reserved:

been exhibited as a solo show pa a ne a since it was originally unveiled in Vancouver in 1965, and Zemel Long, a gentle and determined woman, mother, artist, and feminist, considers it to be her most important show tor a number

For one, to have her work shown 25 years later in a world, as she says, where what's new is best, is something of a personal triumph,

And in a more private sense, it serves as a type of catharsis for

fering.

The daughter of a Polish father and English mother, Zemef Long sutiered for years from tuber- culosis, which developed at age 23 following a freak accident in

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