Maia Stark, Janet Macpherson & Sylvia Ziemann | Familiar
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Slate Fine Art Gallery 3424 13 Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan S4T 1P7
Sylvia Ziemann, “Keeping House at the End of the World,” 2022
oil on canvas, 60 x 36 " (courtesy of the gallery)
Maia Stark, Janet Macpherson & Sylvia Ziemann exhibition, Familiar at Slate Fine Art Gallery.
Janet Macpherson began studying ceramics at Sheridan College in 1999 while living in Toronto, Ontario. For six years she maintained a studio practice in Toronto, making functional ceramics, participating in exhibitions, and selling her work at various Toronto galleries. In 2008, she began her MFA in Ceramics at Ohio State University where she explored a more figurative approach to ceramics.
Maia Stark is an artist of settler ancestry based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Treaty 6. Stark graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in 2015. An invested interest in body politics throughout her BFA and MFA led to various research outlets; eventually focusing on concepts of the Grotesque and the Uncanny, specifically as those concepts are described in folktales and fairytales. Stark often draws on personal memories as well as her Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish heritage to form imagery in her paintings, drawings, and ceramic work. Stark's works sometimes portray a duplicated figure, a sort of self portrait, pulling from her experience as an identical twin to contextualize narrative and myth.
She has shown her new work extensively in exhibitions across the United States. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto.
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