Sara Hartland-Rowe
Short Stories
James Patten, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan
An examination of the use of narrative in the work of five contemporary artists. Like a short story - which jumps right into the action, eschewing character development and social context - these works avoid linear narrative and incorporate references to history, popular fiction and news stories into more subjective tales of personal and collective memory. Participating artists include Landon Mackenzie, Marcel Dzama and Sara Hartland Rowe. Two curatorial essays are accompanied by an actual short story. Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan's written project, The Headless Woman and her Sword-Swallowing Man, is printed here for the first time.
Winnipeg Art Gallery (2003) 72 pp 13 col. ill. 0889152187 $13.95 Can./U.S.
The World in the Evening: Sara Hartland-Rowe & Mitchell Wiebe
Susan Gibson Garvey
Catalogue of an exhibition dedicated to the narrative painting of the two Halifax artists. Each in her/his own way is inspired by a large repertoire of historical techniques, Hartland-Rowe by Quattrocentro fresco and Weibe by the Baroque to the abstract. Includes a 13x12 inch removable poster.
Dalhousie Art Gallery (2002) 40 pp 14 col. ill. 7.5x6 in. softcover 0770327443 $10.00
Sara Hartland-Rowe: What Are Days For?
Sarah Quinton & Corinne Mandel.
Referencing the narrative intent and painterly techniques of Renaissance fresco-painting, Hartland-Rowe fills in the historical "gaps" inherent in this monumental artform. As the plaster could be worked only when wet, the work had to be completed in a day and, due to the ravages of time, sections of these walls have since fallen away, thus forever interrupting the stories. This is Hartland-Rowe's poetic conceit: to paint irregularly shaped panels which, when mounted, form a kind of reverse-fresco and to complete the work in a day. "The work in this exhibition comes out of a love of narrative painting, and my struggle to find a place for narrative after modernism. My hope is that you will find a thread that binds moments into stories, and in that journey, find simple, beautiful things at your feet."
Museum London ((2001) 47 pages 19 col. ill. 6.5x6.5 in. 1895800471 softcover $10.00
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