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Martha Street Studio houses an exhibition gallery open to the public 5 days a week from 10–5pm. Martha Street Studio also has an inventory of artists' work for sale and an archive of work produced at the studio since 1988.
Denise Hawrysio - Situational Prints
July 8 - August 20, 2010
Opening Reception to be held Thursday, July 8 from 5-8pm.
“This refreshingly witty and provocative exhibition pushes the possibilities of the normally recalcitrant medium of etching into unexplored realms…” Gary Michael Dault, The Globe and Mail, July 18th, 2009.
Denise Hawrysio’s work pursues the conceptual possibilities of printmaking, especially in relation to her notion of site-specificity. Hawrysio produces her prints by employing external agents: human and physical. The prints are a collaboration between the artist and the world as she finds it; the actions and motions of Hawrysio’s surroundings leave their mark on her art, with the result that each print is a still, a frozen interface between the materials of art and the physicality of the world.
Denise Hawrysio was born in Toronto and currently lives in London, UK. She received her BFA from Queen’s University, Canada, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She works in a variety of media including site-specific installation and prints and has exhibited her work throughout Europe, the United States and Canada. She has been an active member of London’s art scene for several years, founding her own project space in the early 90’s, working collectively with many of Britain leading artists. She recently received fellowships for print residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the prestigious MacDowell Colony in the United States and the University of British Columbia.
