Wanda Lock: A Studio of One’s Own
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Headbones Gallery - The Drawers 6700 Old Kamloops Road, Vernon, British Columbia V1H 1P8
Wanda Lock will be in attendance at the reception at Headbones Gallery on January 11, 2018, 6-8 PM.
“A Studio of One’s Own”, the exhibition by Wanda Lock demonstrates where a woman can go to when she has the liberation of an open slate and place to work. Lock works from a large well-lit studio that is attached to her home in Lake Country. She graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1992 and moved back to the Okanagan soon after where she has pioneered her unique imagery influenced by grunge music and coming-of-age movies. She exhibits across Canada.
Her latest body of multi-media works are based on the covers of Harlequin romance novels. Lock’s mother having been a fan of the genre, she grew up with these idealized images of what a woman could expect from romance. Just as Man and Woman in cultural history was depicted from a variety of perspectives now Lock has turned her gaze to the pulp fiction rendition of the dance between man and woman to make a statement, objectifying the imagery and ‘having her way’ with it. Her unabashed translation of muscled males and wilting women turns the tides on cliché role playing.
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