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Mississauga News
Chris Clay
May 06, 2010 - 11:53 AM
Exhibit features black and white
New exhibit.Louise Cahsens hangs her piece called Night Trail at the Riverwood Gallery Friday. The ink mono print is part of the Image Matrix exhibition called "Black and White" that will be at the gallery until May 16. Staff photo by Fred Loek
The group, which includes artists Beverley Didur, Ivan Fitt, Deborah Moore, Louise Cahsens, Eileen Oswald, Patricia Vega, Gillian Fulton and Silvia Damar Radvansky, is showing about 25 pieces in the Emily Carr Gallery at Visual Arts Mississauga.
Their latest exhibition, called Black And White, opened last Friday and runs to May 16. The majority of works being presented in the current show are in black-and-white, although some are in full colour. Works are both abstract and realistic.
Printmaking typically involves carving a design into a plate, which can be made of wood, metal or other materials, and then using the plate to create images on paper or canvas. Various printmaking techniques will be on display at the show.
"Printmaking is a unique and little-understood art form," said Didur. "Outside of showing (the art), part of our mandate is to promote printmaking in Mississauga. All the works are originals and very creative."
Didur, a graduate of University of Toronto Mississauga, said she enjoys the unpredictability of printmaking.
"Sometimes the print doesn't turn out the way you expected, which is wonderful," said Didur, while adding there's a certain sense of excitement when an artist pulls a print out and gets to enjoy what they've created. "I really love seeing how all the works turn out in the end."
For more information, or to see example's of the work, visit www.theimagematrix.org.
cclay@mississauga.net
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Facility
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studio provides a facility for artist-printmakers to develop their
talents and actively promote the cultural development of visual arts
in Mississauga. The studio maintains two double cylinder etching presses.
Facilities are available for monoprint, woodblock and lino printing,
intaglio and limited silk screen printing.
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