Mona & Michelle

Jennifer Schuler - The Glorification

Jennifer Schuler's presentation of new works at the peace art gallery, called The Glorification, will be on display from November 22-December 2. In her assemblages she flirts with various images of the feminine in fun and whimsical way.

Hicham Illoussamen's Prophets, Devils and Beasts

The walls of the Peace Art Gallery are graciously hosting Hicham's wonderful black and white drawings for the next two weeks. The guests at the well-attended vernissage last night were buzzing about the amazing dream world Hicham presented. Intricate details, rune-like symbols, mythical characters and narrative fragments merge on paper to create windows into the genius imagination of Hicham Illoussamen, art star in the making!

Clint Lewis Presents

Imposter: A Self Portrait

Rob Lendrum's video installation is best described by the artist himself:

Impostor is a video series that questions the role of authorship in self-portraiture and identity formation. In this project actress Jacqueline van de Geer assumes the role of myself and leads viewers through a psychological hall of mirrors. This self-portrait explores the tension between my self-perception and my perceived identity through familiar sites of identity expression; personal fantasy, memory, discourse and family photography. I use the figure of the impostor – a person who poses as someone else in order to deceive others – because this figure shifts between truth and fiction, agency and determinism, and it blurs the distinction between the performed and the ‘authentic’ identity. Theoretically imposture is a challenging idea that represents an interesting problem in the field of identity politics. In reality, embodying another individual is impossible to achieve, yet what emerges from this process is more than simply an interrogation of difference. Issues of representation and the mediation of the self through another body, gender, sex, age, and nationality all come to the forefront. Strangeness, absurdity and failure characterize my work as well as a post-ironic humor that indiscriminately appropriates from art video and pop culture. Drawing on the history of raw one-take video and utilizing various modes and genres of performance, this series attempts to make new meanings of the absurd incongruities between the performer, my doppelganger and myself.

Journey

Paintings by Paul Vincent and Ceramics by Sarah Tosques were on display in July at Peace Art Gallery. This is Jasmine Stuart's curatorial debut!

YPF!

June 2006

The Young Peoples Federation, a Montreal-based art collective of 14 artists, activated the space at the Peace Art Gallery with their wonderful photgraphs, paintings, drawings, prints and installation pieces. The show marked the occasion of the Montreal launch of their book, Classical Thunder.

ART MATTERS!



Clothing and Canvasses by Eugenia Leavitt

Holiday 2005-2006

Eugenia Leavitt showcased her fashion designs and decorative paintings on panel and canvas, as well as some hand-embroidered art peices over the holiday season. The vernissage/ fashion show was well attended by family, friends and special guests.

New Paintings by Jennifer Hamilton

November 2005

In the first Show at the Peace Art Gallery (formerly Studio Jenia) I showed a series of pencil and acrylic on canvas paintings. The floating forms in a subdued colour scheme were, I hope, peaceful meditations on repitition and form.