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12/3/2002

Melissa Day

Art Gallery Bishop, Lennoxville, QC

The Art Gallery of Bishop's University is pleased to present lily pond blue (and other devotional works), a site-specific installation by Melissa Day from March 13 - April 28, 2002.

Bordering on the fringe of painting practice, Melissa Day explores the relationship of the feminine to painting and concepts of low art and high art. In the painting and digital imaging installation,lily pond blue (and other devotional works), medieval nun's drawings and other manifestations of female monastic life are paired with the formal syntax of over 4000 Ma ha Stewart colour combination paint chips.
In their original form, the paint chips offer consumers equal access to colour combinations guaranteed to work, carefully selected and approved by the arbiter of idealized, middle class taste, Martha Stewart. When modified, these paint chips refer to both material and devotional aspects of feminine desire. Selected paint chips were further transformed into high art when framed in shadow boxes in a second installation of this work.

Continuing to borrow from the palette and format of the Martha Stewart paint chips, recent work further explores the relationship of femininity to middle class taste on a large scale. Martha Stewart meets Andy Warhol and the relative obscurity of the female monastic imagery is further aggrandized. Recalling a sixties pop art aesthetic, these works seek to question the relationship of women to paint. The everyday, domestic, feminine, hand held, and mass produced qualities of the paint chips are transformed into the characteristically male, icon-like, over-sized, high art status of pop art and colour field painting. The paint chip physically becomes the material which it advertises, an object worthy of the taste it purports to give.

Melissa Day received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen's University and The Glasgow School of Art in 1992.
Her works have been shown in Canada, the UK and the U.S. She is currently a Professor in the Art and Art History Program between Sheridan College and the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto and is a member of the redhead co-operative, Toronto. Upcoming shows include: everyday green (and other devotional works) at the Peak Gallery in June, 2002; the Rotunda Gallery at Kitchener City Hall, summer, 2002; and a new series of work at the redhead gallery, June 27 to July 30, 2002.

VERNISSAGE: Wednesday, March 13, 2002, 5-7 p.m.

ARTIST'S TALK: March 14 at 1:30 pm at the Art Gallery of Bishop's University

Melissa Day will be available for interviews from Monday, March 11 to Friday, March 15 , 2002.

HOURS: Tuesday to Sunday from 12-5 p.m.
Admission is free

For further information or to book a tour of the exhibition please contact Allyson Adley (819) 822-9600, ext. 2687

Art Gallery Bishop
Lennoxville, QC

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