Salon Night In Conjunction with Members’ Show

We are pleased to announce that Sarah Crawley will host this year’s member’s show Salon Night. This evening will take place

Tuesday 14 July 2009  |   7 - 9PM  @  University of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1C03.

Salon Nights are open to all members, no registration required. Come-one-Come-all! They are free evenings of informal critique and feedback where members are welcome to participate in the salon night that is being held in conjunction with the members show. Anyone PLATFORM member that has submitted work is welcome to attend to receive an crit, or feedback on their work. Whether you wish to present or not, you should come out to add to the dialogue and see what other artists have going on in their studios. Each session is hosted by a different local or visiting artist who will facilitate discussion and weigh in with their own experience.

Sarah Crawley is a visual artist who lives and works in Winnipeg.  Her lens-based art practice revolves around explorations into different aspects of memory, identity and communication. She is interested in how memory impacts identity and the non-verbal ways that identity is communicated. Crawley’s generational approach, utilizing multiple photographic processes, allows for possibilities provided by the accidental with each process both obscuring and embedding information. Subverting proper photographic techniques, Crawley creates images that are based in reality but not bound by it and that make visible the photographic technologies used to create them.

Crawley’s photographic works have been presented across Canada in solo and group exhibitions and she has recently begun to exhibit internationally. Solo exhibitions include The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon), Gallery Connexion (Fredericton), The Photographers Gallery (Saskatoon), The Stride Gallery (Calgary), Gallery 1C03, The Floating Gallery, aceartinc and Gallery 803 (Winnipeg), among others. Group exhibitions include The Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg), The Belgrade Cultural Centre (Belgrade, Serbia), The Dunlop Gallery (Regina), Gallery 44 (Toronto), Gallery 111 (Winnipeg), and Open Space (Victoria), among others. Crawley enjoys sharing her passion for photography through teaching workshops and delivering artist lectures and is an active member of the visual art community in Winnipeg.