Sondra MESZAROS: it's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do

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Sondra Meszaros, "it's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do #1," 2017

ink on collage, 3.5" x 5.5"

Opening Reception Friday November 24th 2017, 6-9 pm

Artist in attendance.

Jarvis Hall Gallery is pleased to welcome Sondra Meszaros to our gallery roster. Our summer exhibition Weird Woman, shone light on Meszaros impressive curatorial abilities, offering a refreshing look at contemporary feminist creation. With it's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do , Meszaros' first solo exhibition at JHG, she explores counter narratives of female sexuality in relation to nature and fetishism within her own work. Taking her cues from Dada and feminist collage as well as 19th century correspondence practices, Meszaros has been accumulating and archiving reference materials that have occupied her studio allowing for the original references to morph and change in meaning over time.

"There are multiple threads to working in this manner that intersect at points and fold onto one another as I am working. By using feminist and psychoanalytic lenses to sort through found images, I aim to engage a process that dismantles, disturbs, and renegotiates. Pulling inspiration from archetypal patterns in folklore, little-known animist myths, and pagan storytelling. I reinterpret associations with nature and the feminine." - S. Meszaros

Meszaros graduated with honours from the Ontario College of Art and Design and received her MFA from the University of Windsor. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards with her work being placed in many international private collections and her work is prominently displayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. She currently teaches within the drawing department of the Alberta College of Art and Design.