Kathleen Fonseca

January 18 – March 9, 2007  |  Curated by Cliff Eyland

Gallery One One One is excited to present a solo exhibition by Winnipeg artist Kathleen Fonseca, curated by Cliff Eyland. Fonseca's show will consist of watercolour paintings made during and after Fonseca's spiritualist readings, a videotape projection of recent psychic readings conducted with volunteers, and a curtained off area in the gallery where she will do readings during the exhibition.

Fonseca is a multimedia artist based in Winnipeg. In 1989 she returned to art school to earn a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba, and in 1995 she completed an MFA at the University of North Dakota just across the US border from Manitoba. She currently teaches at the University of Manitoba School of Art as a sessional instructor in the Foundations area. Fonseca worked for four years at the Manitoba Museum, designing and building dioramas in the new Parklands Exhibit. She has had three solo exhibitions and she has participated in several group shows during her career, working mostly in sculpture and mixed media, work that has little to do with her current practice based on her spiritualist readings. This Gallery One One One solo exhibition is a kind of coming out party for Fonseca, a public declaration of her true interests in art.

  • The gallery. The corner is sectioned off by translucent yellow curtains, with furniture visible behind them. To the right, many notebook pages of writing and vibrant illustrations are pinned on the wall. Most are illustrations of faces. Two display cases sit in front of the wall, with reflected light obscuring their contents.
  • Thirteen notebook pages of handwriting and vibrant illustrations pinned on the gallery wall. Four fully illustrated pages depict faces, another depicts a suited figure walking alone in the street, and another depicts a large fire and crowd beside a railroad. One partially illustrated page depicts a face, another depicts a figure in front of two tipis, and another depicts two seated figures in blackline.
  • A video projected on the gallery wall with translucent black curtains covering the windows on each side, and a bench in front. The captured still features two people sat facing each other and holding hands.
  • A display case showing six open notebooks of handwriting and sketches. They are sketches of a face, a figure’s silhouette on a bright red and black background with yellow circles above them, a crowd of figures’ silhouettes, a figure lying down, and a woman with two children in a stone archway and another person standing outside.

Events:

  • Opening Reception: January 18, 3:00–5:00 PM
  • Closing Reception: March 8, 3:00–5:00 PM
  • Talk: January 24, 12:00-1:00 PM – by Dr. Serena Keshavjee: Seances, Spiritualism and Art during the French Fin de Siecle


 Publications and Press:

Exhibition Archive (Downloadable PDF)