Excerpts from Paris in light and shadow, a hybrid novel in progress.
- Saturday, April 8, 2017
- 2:00pm – 3:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
Artist talk about Myrel Chernick’s own practice in video, installation and text-based works.
Myrel Chernick grew up in New Jersey with parents who were born and raised in Winnipeg. At the age of nine she traveled to Paris for a year, discovering culture, history, literature, art, food and beauty. This formative experience fuelled her determination to leave the suburbs and live a different life. Chernick’s fascination with language began with her experience of learning French that year.
Everyone is welcome: artist mothers and non-artist-mothers alike!
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In the late 1970s Chernick began creating text-based multi-media installations in New York that were exhibited nationally and internationally. After the birth of her twins and the curtailment of her peripatetic existence she began concentrating on texts, which grew from short poetic statements to essays and short stories that were published in M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Mother Reader, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, and Video Pool’s Poolside. In 1999 she began researching and developing the exhibition Maternal Metaphors, which was subsequently presented twice and included a catalog with an introduction by Chernick and an essay by Jennie Klein. This grew into the first comprehensive anthology on art and the maternal, The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, organized and edited with Klein over five years and published by Demeter Press.