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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 Joshephson’s beautifully crafted pair of child-sized wax violins, in Marianne Lovink’s carved wooden pods sprouting red and gold seeds like exotic fruit, in Annette Larsson’s light-boxes containing close-up photographs of naked flesh, in Karen Roulstone’s delicate, ghostly paintings bearing traces of Chinese calligraphy. And, for contrast and comic relief, there is Roger Carter’s 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.