Mary Scott, IN ME MORE YOU THAN ME MARY IN YOU MORE ME THAN ME MARY, 1998-1999, mixed-media installation. Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Exhibitions
Blind Stairs
Contemporary Feature and The Davies Foundation Galleries
18 September - 7 November 2004
Blind Stairs was a dramatic exhibition of works in sculpture, textiles, painting, and photography that examined three senior artists' feminist and collaborative conceptual art practices documenting subjective experience. The show explored patterns of affiliation and appropriation in works dating from the 1980s to the present by Janice Gurney, Mary Scott, and Arlene Stamp. Each artist incorporated traces or productions of another in their art, at times re-using previous work in a process of sequential iteration akin to jazz music.
The show, curated by Joan Stebbins and Ingrid Jenkner, was organized and toured by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, and Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. A 90-page illustrated catalogue with essays by Emily Falvey and Sophia Isajiw accompanied Blind Stairs.
Jan Allen