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The Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 31, 1998
Gillian MacKay

Gallery Going
Jaga Jarosiewicz at Archive

One can almost fell the cramp of an exhausted hand on this absorbing show of 17 paintings and mixed-media works, each of them packed with obsessive, indecipherable printing and handwriting. One small white painting, Epic, suggests an old, sepia-toned manuscript written in a spidery hand on a clay tablet. Elsewhere, layers of print dissolve into texture, with the look of something densely woven or embroidered. In Sinking Motives, the tortuous, loopy flow of black marker across a semi-transparent sheet of mylar suggests the unconscious. In a semi-abstract landscape, Lost Horizon, it soars across the sky like pure gesture liberated from all obligation to be literal. Until Nov. 22