Opening reception: Friday October 22, 2004 – 7:00 p.m.
Workshop: Saturday October 23 & Sunday October 24

The Art Gallery of Sudbury is proud to present Dorothy Caldwell: In Good Repair on Friday October 22, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. Caldwell an award winning artist is presenting a series of new work inspired by her residency at the Textile Museum of Canada where she studied artifacts from the Museum’s historic collection.

Caldwell expands her characteristic rural landscape imagery of the last decade into a study of representations. Her distinctive mark-making is created by hand stitching and wax resist which captures natural phenomena such as the prehistoric rock formations, ancient shorelines and preserved flora, of the lakes and hillsides in Eastern Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region.

“This is one of those rare exhibitions that takes something so familiar that you hardly notice and makes something wonderful of it. Dorothy’s inspirations build into rich painterly surfaces that meld the accumulated marking of stitches and overlays of dyes into a metaphor of landscape and time.”
Celeste Scopelities, Director/Curator

Also exhibited throughout Dorothy Caldwell: In Good Repair are several fragile and mended textiles from the archives of the Textile Museum of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Peterborough Centennial Museum and the artist’s own collection. These old and carefully repaired pieces of cloth harmonize with Caldwell’s language of mark making. The artist pulls works in deference to domestically prescribed utilitarian skills, and yet she pulls them away from their private arena and symbolically places them into the exterior work of the land.

Dorothy Caldwell live and works in Hastings, Ontario, and has held an active studio practice for over 25 years. She has executed major architectural commissions and her work is represented in many international private and public collections. Dorothy represented Canada at Expo “90 in Osaka and was the 1990 recipient of the prestigious Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellent in the Crafts.

On Saturday October 23 and Sunday October 24, the Art Gallery of Sudbury will be hosting a two-day workshop. Drawing with thread: the expressive stitch will allow participants to learn about Caldwell’s unique approach to creating textile art.




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