ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

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These are the kind of rubber stamps most of us are familiar with. But what becomes of the lowly rubber stamp when it is put into the hands of an artist? Six artists who have exhibited their work at the Visual Voice Art Gallery during the 2007/2008 season tried their hands at creating artworks on paper using rubber stamps, each one interpreting this simple printing method in their own, distinctive style.

But this show comes with a twist: we'll be offering for sale both the artworks our artists created as well as the original stamps themselves. We want to inspire visitors to the gallery to take part in the creative process. Making art - and buying art - should be easy and fun.

THE STAMP SHOW runs just before Christmas. We're hoping to encourage Santa to stuff everyone's stockings with art this year.

Exhibition Dates:
December 5 - 18, 2008
Vernissage:
Thursday, December 4, 2008
5:30pm - 8:00pm

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sigrún Jenny Bardadóttir was born in Iceland and is currently based in Montreal. Sigrún is interested in the idea of family and place. She used digitally manipulated images from her family album, sparingly adding stamp impressions.
Heidi Barkun is a mixed-media artist from Montreal who is inspired by the intrinsic beauty of the body, its fragility and strength, and the magnificence that emerges from the process of decay.
Mariana Escribano was born in Mexico City, where she studied and currently resides. In her stamped monoprints she manipulates transparency and opaqueness, createing a sense of depth with layers of color and paint.
Bettina Forget is a German artist now living in Montreal. Bettina created a series of mail art, the image of aviator Amelia Earhart appearing in various incarnations on this collection of "Starmail".
Mike Patten was born in Regina, of Cree and European decent and is currently living and working in Montreal. Mike's conceptual style is expressed in his "Maybe" stamp, countering the typically definite, authoritative message of rubber stamps.
Béatrice Sokoloff was born in Switzerland and has lived in Québec since 1968. Béatrice's work uses the stroke in the Chinese tradition to express her intimate relationship with the world, which blurs the boudaries between subject and object.