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[Louisette Lanteigne]

Lovely art show inspired by wetlands. Check it out!

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From: Len Carter <len.carter at sympatico.ca>
Subject: For Gren Membership - Rotunda Gallery April Exhibition (Judy Major-Girardin)
To: "Louisette Lanteigne" <butterflybluelu at rogers.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 2:21 PM






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Subject: Rotunda Gallery April Exhibition (Judy Major-Girardin)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:41:55 -0400
From: Carrie.Kozlowski at kitchener.ca
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Drop in at the Rotunda Gallery in April  
      Judy Major-Girardin exhibits Wetlands

Artist's reception: Thursday, April 15 from 5-7pm   


April Rotunda Gallery exhibit inspired by marsh and wetlands
Judy Major-Girardin considers the environment when she creates and produces her art. Her exhibit, Wetlands, is featured at the Rotunda Gallery for the month of April. 
Major-Girardin uses print processes that offer a lower negative impact on the environment and on the human body. The imagery represented in this exhibition is based on photographs taken from marsh and wetland areas at Point Pelee National Park in southern Ontario and from a nature reserve at the University of Montevallo in the USA.
"Visually, the marsh provides a continually changing source of optical information related to repetition, variation and pattern that connect with my interests in pattern," she says. "The use of pattern sets up expectations of order, stability and regularity, but the rhythms and repetitions are broken, shifted and superimposed in such a way that no visual certainty exists."
The images of the wetland also invite associations with sustainability. 
"Once viewed as inaccessible, unproductive and insect infested areas, we now understand the unique contribution of wetlands as biologically diverse, productive, filtering," says the artist. "A significant portion of wetlands across North America has been converted to urban, agricultural and industrial development making the conservation of wetlands a current topic of concern."
Judy Major-Girardin is an artist and associate professor who has taught in the honours art program at McMaster University since 1983. She has recently agreed to join the Enabling Organization Board of Directors for the Waterloo Region Prosperity Council.
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