Diane Pugen:
Drawings and Installations
September 12 - October 10, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 12, 2-4 .p.m.

Granite fortress,

Sacred site,

                   Still harbouring hidden chambers,

                                             hallowed recesses,

Repositories…..of traditional

                                                ways of knowing,

 

An archetypal sensibility draws me to specific natural locations in ways that defy my conscious knowledge. Compelled to give voice to this awareness, I sit on these lands over prolonged periods of time recording the insights that I sense through the anima of each site, the resonance of history and echoes of lost memories. The land itself, guides my work, affects my process, references its past and our responsibilities to its future.

 

Diane Pugen is a Toronto-based artist and educator who works in drawing, printmaking, and installation. Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York, she is an Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. She received numerous awards, including a Visiting Artist Grant to Cape Dorset, Baffin Island. She has exhibited extensively nationally and was part of The Chile Exchange in 2003. Her works are found in corporate and public collections across Canada.

Curated by Maralynn Cherry