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THE OAKVILLE BEAVERB6 267 Lakeshore Rd.. Oakville (905) 8 4 9 -6 2 0 0 Insur 6S8jS8i v • *•'•* 8 « MSg | } A Better Place For Youv Samng Scuthwe$t Oakville far over 40 yean HoDedale Mall. Rebecca St. • 469-9100 A Professional addition to our staff, she will provide experience and skills to all o f your aesthetic needs. Haircraft is pleased to welcome Karen Golczyk as our newest Aesthetician. For a limited time receive 50% off all regularly priced aesthetic services Call today for your appointm ent 302 Lakeshore Rd. E., Oakville 905-845-7671 Women photographers' point of view O akville G alleries features th e w ork o f w om en photographers a t both locations By Diane Hart SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Wednesday, May 19,1999 Take a cursory glance at the names on the list of contemporary photogra­phers working in Canada today and you can bet Louise Noguchi and Raymonde April will be near the top. But while both artists are women and tend to work almost exclusively in black and white; the pictures they make are radically different. In fact, you can't find two more dissimilar artists than Noguchi and April. Their work is currently on view in Oakville: Noguchi is part of the exhibit at Gairloch Gallery entitled Women Making Pictures, a complementary one to April's far more expansive Les Fleuves Invisibles at Centennial Gallery. Yet both artists fall under the broad umbrella of women contemporary artists making pictures in Canada. And both are fascinating in their own way: April's interest in the subtext of her work - what comes about when the images are put together as one whole - and Noguchi's explo­ ration of a "real" image. While April may be more interested in creating a poetic story from often banal images taken sporadically and impulsively in and about her life and then reworking them together to form an idea, Noguchi likes to weave a unique story of her own. Both, however, like what they call the image "in between." Noguchi takes compilation photographs that are composed of two photographic por­ traits in the same format cut into horizontal and vertical strips and then woven together. One image is that of the artist and the other that of a murderer. The Compilation Portrait, included in Oakville Galleries' Gairloch Gallery exhibit showcasing women photographers in the per­ manent collection, is a bizarre portrait that almost seems to vibrate because it never seems to occupy one space or another: here is Noguchi's rather ominous in-between space. For April, the "in-between" space is unknown until the film is processed, devel­ oped, and mounted. Quite literally, the in- between space doesn't exist until it appears when her work is mounted, in a frieze-like manner. For curator Mamie Fleming, both the main exhibit at Centennial and the complementary one exposing the depth in Oakville Galleries permanent collection - a collection that has taken the better part of the past decade to cre­ ate - point to the diversity among women photographers in Canada today. Photography as a poetic tool is a theme running through both exhibits, says Fleming. And it is here that the gender of the person behind the lens can often be discerned: where­ as a male photographer may be more interest­ ed in spaces and places, like Geoffrey James for instance, a woman photographer tends to show private images as a way to explore iden­ tity, communication and memory. "All the artists in our permanent collection explore these ideas," she said. Women Making Pictures will continue at Gairloch Gallery until May 27th. 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