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Eve Leader, Pippa Cherniavsky & Leemour Pelli new drawings June 26 - July 24, 1999

Eve Leader untitled oil on mylar 42" X 27"

Pippa Cherniavsky Empty Your Contents mixed media on paper 44" X 30"

Leemour Pelli untitled oil on paper 40" X 26"

The human shape is a ghost made of distraction and pain. Sometimes pure light, sometimes cruel, trying wildly to open, this image tightly held within itself - Runi (1207-1273) This exhibition of new work by Eve Leader, Pippa Cherniavsky and Leemour Pelli explores drawing as primary expression, both as a process and as an end. Although their techniques and media are widely divergent, all three artists base their imagery on the body which serves variously as trace, symbol and expressive vessel. Vancouver-based Eve Leaderís drawings in oil on mylar are deceptively minimalist compositions in which the ephemeral, haunting presence of unspecified figures suggests the numinous and intangible nature of human experience. In sharp contrast are the bold mixed media drawings of Pippa Cherniavsky, another Vancouver artist. Her large scale works are striking in their immediacy, revealing process as content. The frequent use of the body or its fragmentation serves here not as a stand in for everyone/no one but as a vehicle of exploration of the self, resulting in drawings which are at once personal and psychologically intense. The work of New York based artist Leemour Pelli most challenges our notion of drawing. Working in oil on canvas, or latex and graphite on paper, Pelli explores drawing as trace, as impression and as residue. In her investigation of human/body/gender situations, figures are alluded to and objects are perceived through the marks they have left, suggesting both presence and absence. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 5:00 For information, telephone (416) 920 3820

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