WORDSMITHS / Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge ON, 2006, group exhibition
curated by Ivan Jurakic
"Wordsmiths is a snapshot of visual artists from across Canada who use words as the
building blocks for their conceptual investigations."   Ivan Jurakic, curator

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THE PERFECT HOSTESS
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Cotton yarn embroidered on grey flannel, rulers, brass nuts & bolts, 17.5"h x 17.5" w and 25.5"h x 17.5" w

A guest (with a gift for honing in on the Achilles heel) cuts right to the heart of every hostess's nightmare: a filthy house, stale food and drunkenness. These notes (one on the back of a cash register receipt) were left scattered about the house on the night of our annual Christmas party. Among Uncle Toadstool's obsessions are heights and his dad's grey flannel dress pants.



COPYRIGHT 2006



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COPYRIGHT 2006, cotton yarn embroidered on cotton window blind, 55" h x 36" w, 2006

This piece is based on my hand-written transcription of a message on my answering machine from the Copyright Administrator at the AGO requesting a credit line whenever I exhibit NO COMMENT which was based on Visitors' Comment Books from the AGO'S Greg Curnoe retrospective Life and Stuff in 2001.




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