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The Globe and Mail, Saturday, January 3, 1998
Betty Ann Jordan and Gillian MacKay
Gallery Going
glo at Archive
The appealing group show of small works at Archive, entitled glo, adds up to more than just a holiday grab bag. Among the 30 Toronto-based artists who were invited to contribute, including Joe Fleming, Eldon Garnet, Liz Parkinson and Evan Penny, there is a shared sensibility that is intimate, sensuous and poetic. One feels it in Gunilla Joshephsons beautifully crafted pair of child-sized wax violins, in Marianne Lovinks carved wooden pods sprouting red and gold seeds like exotic fruit, in Annette Larssons light-boxes containing close-up photographs of naked flesh, in Karen Roulstones delicate, ghostly paintings bearing traces of Chinese calligraphy. And, for contrast and comic relief, there is Roger Carters bubble-gum pink Kay Kar. This mechanized stuffed toy sits in the window of the gallery wagging its jaw while drooling threads of candy-striped toothpaste, a perfect specimen of seasonal excess. Until Jan. 31.
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