Art Metropole

24 Aug. 2007

Book launch for Julie Voyce: Paste-Up

Artist

Julie Voyce

Art Metropole is pleased to host the launch for Julie Voyce: Paste-Up, published by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery. Please join us August 24th between 7 9 pm to celebrate the release of this visually stunning catalogue. The activity from which Julie Voyce: Paste-Up sprung is best described by the artist in her own words:

The first three colors would have bounced off the circumference of everybody’s eyeballs… creamed pistachio & transparent magenta were replaced by orange and trans cyan. Black stayed. The Game was set: each and every abstract screen print had to swing in three colors max. At first, Doctor Seuss mentored the imagery then everything collapsed into dot fields. Thirty-two abstracts were made. Several exhibits were called Paste-Up.

- Julie Voyce

These prints have recently been mounted at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge (November 2005-January 2006) and at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound (March – April 2007). The shows were curated by Joan Stebbins and Stuart Reid. Now there’s a catalogue! Julie Voyce: Paste-Up is stunning. Compact and lush with visual orchestration by Lisa Kiss Design, a wall enhancing multiple signed by the artist and essays by RM Vaughan and Stuart Reid. The book was published by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Tom Thomson Art Gallery.

Please join us for drinks and snacks on Friday August, 24th @ 7-9 pm at Art Metropole. Julie Voyce: Paste-up will be on sale for $20.00 and the artist will be in attendance.

The artist would like to thank: Lisa Kiss, RM Vaughan, Stuart Reid, Joan Stebbins, Petra Chevrier, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and The Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Julie Voyce was born in 1957 in Woodstock, Ontario. She Studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto. Since the early 1980s, she has shown her work extensively in Canada and has had exhibitions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and Italy. Her practice has been documented in writings and exhibition catalogues by Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario; University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario and Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections including those of The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga and Osler Hoskin and Harcourt, Toronto. In addition to drawing, painting and printmaking, Voyce has engaged in several book and mail art projects, often collaboratively. In 2004, she was awarded Artist of the Year Award by the by the Untitled Art Awards in Toronto. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.

Images

1: The crowd.
2: John Mclaughlin, Michael Kline, guest, Julie Voyce, Gregory Burke.
3: Crowd enjoying the food.
4: Julie Voyce, Stephen Andrews, Andrew Zealley.
5: Arella Vent, guest with Maurizzio Pisigni and friend.
6: Ann Dean, Andrew J. Paterson, Lisa Kiss and Arella Vent.
7: Works on display.
8: Ann Dean, John Sasaki, Luke Painter, Faith.
9: Gregory Burke, Anita Hamilton, Kathleen, Earl Miller, Michael Klein.
10: Arella Vent trying out the Cinderella slipper.
11: Julie Voyce, John Mclaughlin, Alex Nagel.
12: Luis Jacob, Lisa Kiss, Richard Vaughan.
13: Julie Voyce, Lisa Kiss, Andrew J. Paterson.
14: Meredith Keith, Julie Voyce, Michael Lewis.
15: Faith, Luke Painter and friend.
16: Crowd enjoying the food and beverages provided on site, along with the works on display.
17: Southern Alberta Art Gallery / The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, 2007, 32 pp - 20cm x 15cm - softcover.

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