Bev Pike, Chanting Grotto, metallic gouache on paper, 2.4 m x 5.5 m (8 x 18 ft), 2023
- Monday, October 7, 2024
- 9:00am – 10:30am
- Online Event
Free! For women and gender-diverse painters. To register email [email protected].
Laura Lewis. Photo by Rylaan Gimby.
This reading group is dedicated to exploring ideas, practices, theory and criticism with respect to contemporary painting. Start the month (and morning) with paint! Join the conversation on the first Monday of every month at 9 am, to discuss the selected reading over a virtual cup of coffee. Interested in participating? Email [email protected] for links to the month’s short accessible article and the Zoom meet-up.
October reading: ‘I Wanted a Real Person to Be Seen’: Joan Semmel on Her 60-Year Career Painting the Female Form—for the Female Gaze Interview by Marta Gnyp
Laura Lewis is a queer visual artist originally from Halifax, and a 2018 graduate from the BFA Honours program, School of Art, University of Manitoba, who is currently based in Winnipeg. Lewis’s conceptual figurative painting practice explores philosophical questions concerning identity and sexuality.