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Each piece is 30 x 22 inches on rag paper with acrylic paint and collage elements
Unframed works : $400 Framed: $650

mARKETPLACE OF iDEAS This piece creates an overview of the entire exhibition, given that each of the crosswords plays with a specific idea and suggests the multiplicity of theories, thoughts, buzzwords and cultural expressions floating throughout our collective consciousness. Drawing on a cultural studies background, I revisited some of the writings and ideas of the French feminist scholars that influenced feminist theory when they were translated into English in the 1970s.

VIRUS The first crossword I made takes a piece of handwork and transforms it into the corona virus image. Just as my lockdown time was spent creating this series, the time consuming needlework would have given women something to do during long hours in circumscribed lives. The words I used are still some of the more significant words in our language today.

CLIMATE This is one of the earliest pieces in the series, presenting a few words that continually appear in reports of disasters around the globe. The sun is represented by a fabulously crocheted doily incorporated into the painting. The cheerful colours and perky fabric inclusion offers an ironic counterpoint to the dire words.

Hélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Her famous article "The Laugh of the Medusa" and her phrase “Write with your body” has inspired artists and writers for generations. She is considered one of the early thinkers in post-structural feminism, and she founded the first centre of feminist studies at a European (today's University of Paris VIII).

Luce Irigaray, (born 1932?, Belgium), French linguist, psychoanalyst, and feminist philosopher who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.

Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor emerita at the University Paris Diderot. The author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius, she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation.

SIMONE Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir 1908 –1986 was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. She had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

JUNK A messy and fractious expression intended to impart a chaotic situation The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean.

JUST DON'T My Facebook request for phrases that artists hate to hear, or to be described as, had huge response. Here were some of my favourites.

CLEISTHENES, the father of democracy So that’s his bust and a cherry picking of words connected to the idea of democracy. The cotton handiwork here contains an overpainted, somewhat abused version of his image.

JARGON This is the result of another request on facebook for words from art writing that artists and writers find to be overused, pretentious, and otherwise annoying. I learned that I have probably used all of them in my own essays and reviews. Problematic indeed!

MONEY Who gains? Who loses? Our extinct copper penny becomes the visual hook against a few bits of text from the financial pages. A cotton doily holds the image, which then is incorporated into an acrylic background.

PSYCH 101 Freud and Jung in their corners and pop culture words pulled from general knowledge of their ideas. Their images, dyed into frames, are painted across in a manner that suggests a level of corruption in understanding of the concepts they explored and developed.

CROSSWORDS TALK

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Dignam Gallery, Women's Art Association of Canada honours Mary Hiester Reid