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* ***Pam Hall & Margaret Dragu **

***/MARGINALIA: Getting Out of the House/*

September 11 - November 16, 2008

*Opening Reception*: Thursday, September 11at 7:00pm

Pam Hall & Margaret Dragu, *MARGINALIA Getting Out of the House (detail).*

*Richmond Art Gallery* presents *MARGINALIA: Getting Out of the House*. 
This coast-to-coast correspondence project between *Pam Hall* (St. 
John?s, Nfld) and *Margaret Dragu* (Richmond, BC) is a collaboration 
investigating connection, community, sexuality, aging, and domestic 
life. "MARGINALIA" is a virtual, physical, and daily engagement with 
distance and intentional relation. Since  2004, Hall/Dragu have made and 
exchanged over 4500 squares/carrés and emails occasionally meeting in a 
gallery to create an installation and performance. MARGINALIA:Getting 
Out of the House takes the form of two history-houses covered in the 
artists? squares/carrés and a short "art-aktion" performance.

Pam Hall is a visual artist, film-maker and writer whose work has been 
exhibited across Canada and internationally, and is represented in many 
corporate, private and public collections. Her solo exhibition "The 
Coil: a history in four parts", documenting a five year process of 
site-specific installation on the land and water across Canada and in 
Japan, was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada for its Permanent 
Collection. Her most recent interdisciplinary installation "New Readings 
In Female Anatomy", opened at the AGNL in St. John?s in 2001, and 
traveled to Carleton University Art Gallery 2002. In addition to her 
visual arts practice, Hall has written and illustrated children?s books, 
teaches graduate students in the United States, and works as a 
production designer in the film industry. Her work on "Rare Birds" was 
recognized for Outstanding Achievement in Production Design by the 
Director?s Guild of Canada. She lives and works in St. John?s.

Margaret Dragu is a warm-hearted, fearless and indomitable spirit who 
has left her mark across disciplines and across the country. Dragu's 
astonishing output of work spans back to 1969 and includes forays into 
theatre, film, video, writing, choreography and above all, performance 
art. She is perhaps best known for her work in the 1980s, including her 
long-running X's and O's series, which began with a solstice 
mega-spectacle in Hamilton in 1983 (X's and O's on the Longest Day of 
the Year) and continues with her recent "Improvisation for X's and O's". 
Her 1988 film project /I VANT TO BE ALONE/ reads as a who's who of the 
Toronto art scene of the 1980s, while her smaller, more intimate 1990s 
work has been produced and seen mainly on the west coast. In the last 
decade she has done many activating public projects including the 
multi-faceted /Walking Woman/ in association with the RAG.

 Participating artists will be in attendance. *An **Artist Talk with 
Margaret Dragu will be held on Nov 14, Friday from 5 ? 6pm.  Opening 
Reception is September 11 from 7 - 9pm.*

*Emily Rosamond*

*/Patron Saint of Waterskiers and Other Entities/*

September 11 - November 16, 2008

*Opening Reception*: Thursday, September 11at 7:00pm

Emily Rosamond, /other entities/ (detail), 2008

This installation, *Patron Saint of Waterskiers and Other 
Entities*  takes the form of a garden comprised of four inter-related 
parts combining aspects of landscape, architecture, installation, video 
and furniture. Each is dedicated to a character representative of 
particular ideas connected to "holding together" social space.  The work 
is structured metaphorically like a character-based storybook, rendered 
in ever-changing, four-dimensional space.

Emily Rosamond received her BFA from York University in 2002, completed 
the independent Studio Program at the Toronto School of Art in 2005 and 
her MFA at Simon Fraser University in 2007. Her practice spans 
sculpture, drawing, writing, performance and video.

*An Afternoon Tea and Performance with Emily Rosamond will take place on 
Saturday Nov 1, at 2pm followed by an Artist Talk at 3pm.*

Gallery hours are 10:00am to 6:00pm from Monday to Friday and 10:00am to 
5:00pm on Saturday & Sunday. 

The RAG is operated by the Richmond Art Gallery Association and is the 
City of Richmond's Public Contemporary Art Gallery under the auspices of 
the Office of Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services. The RAG receives 
generous and ongoing financial support from the City of Richmond, the BC 
Arts Council, the BC Gaming Commission and project assistance from the 
Canada Council for the Arts.

*For more information or images contact Richmond Art Gallery at *

604.247.8312 or gallery@richmond.ca <mailto:gallery@richmond.ca>

www.richmondartgallery.org <http://www.richmondartgallery.org>

*Paula Hickey*
*Gallery Assistant*
Richmond Art Gallery
phickey@richmond.ca
tel 604.247.8312

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MARGINALIA:
Getting Out of the House
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Opening
Reception:&nbsp;Thursday,
September 11at&nbsp;7:00pm
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<o:p>Pam Hall &amp; Margaret Dragu,&nbsp;MARGINALIA Getting Out of the House (detail).</o:p>

Richmond Art
Gallery presents MARGINALIA: Getting Out of the House.
This coast-to-coast correspondence project between Pam Hall
(St. John&#146;s, Nfld) and Margaret Dragu (Richmond, BC)
is a collaboration investigating connection, community, sexuality,
aging, and domestic life. "MARGINALIA" is a virtual, physical, and
daily engagement with distance and intentional relation. Since&nbsp; 2004,
Hall/Dragu have made and exchanged over 4500 squares/carr&eacute;s and emails
occasionally meeting in a gallery to create an installation and
performance. MARGINALIA:Getting
Out of the House takes the form of two history-houses covered in the
artists&#146; squares/carr&eacute;s and a short "art-aktion" performance.
&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p>
Pam Hall is a visual
artist, film-maker and writer whose work has been exhibited across
Canada and internationally, and is represented in many corporate,
private and public collections. Her solo exhibition "The Coil: a
history in four parts", documenting a five year process of
site-specific installation on the land and water across Canada and in
Japan, was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada for its
Permanent Collection. Her most recent interdisciplinary installation
"New Readings In Female Anatomy", opened at the AGNL in St. John&#146;s in
2001, and traveled to Carleton University Art Gallery 2002. In addition
to her visual arts practice, Hall has written and illustrated
children&#146;s books, teaches graduate students in the United States, and
works as a production designer in the film industry. Her work on "Rare
Birds" was recognized for Outstanding Achievement in Production Design
by the Director&#146;s Guild of Canada. She lives and works in St. John&#146;s.<o:p></o:p>
&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
Margaret Dragu is a
warm-hearted, fearless and indomitable spirit who has left her mark
across disciplines and across the country. Dragu's astonishing output
of work spans back to 1969 and includes forays into theatre, film,
video, writing, choreography and above all, performance art. She is
perhaps best known for her work in the 1980s, including her
long-running X's and O's series, which began with a solstice
mega-spectacle in Hamilton in 1983 (X's and O's on the Longest Day of
the Year) and continues with her recent "Improvisation for X's and
O's". Her 1988 film project I VANT TO BE ALONE reads as a
who's who of the Toronto art scene of the 1980s, while her smaller,
more intimate 1990s work has been produced and seen mainly on the west
coast. In the last decade she has done many activating public projects
including the multi-faceted Walking Woman in association with
the RAG.
&nbsp;
&nbsp;Participating
artists will be in attendance. An Artist
Talk with Margaret Dragu will be held
on&nbsp;Nov 14, Friday from 5 &#150; 6pm.&nbsp;&nbsp;Opening Reception is September 11
from 7&nbsp;- 9pm.
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Emily Rosamond
Patron
Saint of Waterskiers and Other Entities 
September 11 -
November 16, 2008<o:p></o:p>
Opening
Reception:&nbsp;Thursday, September 11at&nbsp;7:00pm
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Emily Rosamond, other
entities&nbsp;(detail), 2008 
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This
installation, Patron Saint of
Waterskiers and Other Entities&nbsp;&nbsp;takes the form
of a garden comprised of four inter-related parts combining aspects of
landscape, architecture, installation, video and furniture.&nbsp;Each is dedicated to a character representative of
particular ideas connected to "holding together" social space.&nbsp; The work is structured metaphorically like a
character-based storybook,&nbsp;rendered in ever-changing,
four-dimensional space.
&nbsp;
Emily Rosamond received her BFA from
York University in 2002, completed the independent&nbsp;Studio Program at the Toronto School
of Art in 2005 and her MFA at Simon Fraser University in 2007. Her practice spans sculpture, drawing,
writing, performance and video.
&nbsp;
An Afternoon
Tea and&nbsp;Performance with Emily
Rosamond&nbsp;will take place on
Saturday Nov 1,&nbsp;at 2pm&nbsp;followed by an Artist Talk at 3pm.
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Gallery hours are 10:00am to 6:00pm from Monday to
Friday and 10:00am to 5:00pm on Saturday &amp; Sunday.&nbsp;
&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
The
RAG is operated by the Richmond Art Gallery Association and is the City
of Richmond's Public Contemporary Art Gallery under the auspices of the
Office of Parks, Recreation &amp; Cultural Services. The RAG receives
generous and ongoing financial support from the City of Richmond, the
BC Arts Council, the BC Gaming Commission and project&nbsp;assistance from the Canada Council
for the Arts.
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For more information or images&nbsp;contact Richmond
Art Gallery at&nbsp;
 604.247.8312&nbsp;or <a
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 href="mailto:gallery@richmond.ca">gallery@richmond.ca</a> 
<a
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Paula Hickey 
Gallery
Assistant 
Richmond
Art Gallery 
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:phickey@richmond.ca">phickey@richmond.ca</a>
 
tel
604.247.8312 
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