[Bcma-l] MEDIA RELEASE from the Maple Ridge Art Gallery

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THE MAPLE RIDGE ART GALLERY

MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 23, 2007


GARDEN

Paintings and Poetry by Tricia Sellmer and Alexander Forbes

Saturday, September 8 to Saturday October 13, 2007

Opening Reception: Saturday September 8, 3:00-5:00pm

The Maple Ridge Art Gallery is pleased to present Garden, a joint 
exhibit of paintings and drawings by Tricia Sellmer and poems by 
Alexander Forbes, held at the Maple Ridge Art Gallery from September 8 
to October 13, 2007; an opening Reception on September 8, from 3 to 5 pm 
will highlight an artist talk by Sellmer and poetry reading by Forbes.

Throughout her career, Tricia Sellmer has explored the idea of garden as 
a metaphor for personal experiences; creating a pathway that meanders 
and weaves its way through stories, connecting thought and action to 
experience. In the exhibit Garden the starting point for this journey is 
a pair of jeweled, red, sling-backed shoes. Shoes are prevalent in 
experiences of transformation, such as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, the 
fairy tale of Cinderella and the term ‘to walk a mile in his shoes’. In 
Garden, magical images of unruly garden scenes create an atmosphere to 
explore our own path, connecting with our own stories.

Included in the exhibit are nine poems on gardens, by Alexander Forbes. 
Arranged chronologically from spring to fall, they counterpoint the 
paintings of Tricia Sellmer, which are arranged thematically rather than 
chronologically. Two different but complementary movements are thus 
introduced into the exhibit, in a polyphonic arrangement of sounds and 
images that replicates what one actually experiences when visiting a 
garden.

Both, Sellmer and Forbes have successfully collaborated in the past 
producing joint exhibits and publications of their work. Projects 
include Rumours of Bees, Double Exposure, and after the moon a blue ocean.

Maple Ridge Art Gallery

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