FERTILITY RITES  September, 1991
            Thomas Anfield, Sonja Bunes, Carole Driver, Carol Dukowski, Ron Falcioni,
Pnina Granirer,  Miles Hunter,  Leo Labelle,  Frank Lambert ,
 Joy Zemel Long,  Marta Pan, Gregg Simpson

        Gallery Alpha's fall group exhibition brought together twelve Vancouver artists to explore the shapes and emotions surrounding the
        very foundation of our being, the creation and growth of life itself. Curator/artist, Gregg Simpson, who also exhibited his work, stated:
        The theme of Fertility Rites evolved from my preoccupation with the sensuous lines and patterns generated from a nucleus, or
        embryonic shape, in some of my abstract work. I was interested to see if the work of other artists also reflected an interest in depicting
        the life force.

Works by Gregg Simpson, Joy Zemel Long and Carole Driver

        Simpson found parallels for his theme in the work of eleven other west coast artists. For example,
        Miles Hunter's seed/pod assemblage paintings, the cellular enclaves of Ron Falcioni's work, and
        the invocation of pre-embryonic life in the paintings of Frank Lambert and Leo Labelle, all explore
        the theme of Fertility Rites from an almost biological perspective

above: acrylic paintings by Ron Falcioni

 

above: mixed media work and sculpture by Sonja Bunes

        The sculptural clefts, orifices, and wombs of Sonja Bunes, Marta Pan and Carol Dukowski reflect a woman's perspective which is balanced by the
        allegories of pregnancy and birth presented in the figurative works of Joy Zemel Long and Thomas Anfield. The spiritual overtones associated with
        the theme are reflected by the fertility goddesses of Pnina Granirer's Venus and Kundalini friezes and the ancient horned dietics invoked by
        Carole Driver's enigmatic sculptures.

Works by Joy Zemel Long, Gregg Simpson, Miles Hunter and Carole Driver
 

Brute Primitive
Geometric Expressionism
Rainforests of the Mind
Fantastic Visions
Head, Hunter, Simpson

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