Hendiadys Project 
ADVOCATE
Group Show featuring the work of Gabriele Gottschlag, LaurieMarshall, ElvisPrusic, and Lorna SchwenkDec 10 1998 thru Jan 23 1999Opening reception Dec 10 1998 About the Advocates........ 
Laurie Marshall" I often see things that inspire drawings - a dogin a doorway, a ladywith long dark curly hair pouring cream in her coffee, a one leggedmanlighting a cigarette in the rain....Sometimes I like to play with shapes and colours - blue circles,wigglylines, white dots etc. and seeing if they will turn into something;maybe alandscape with fish, or a family on their front steps, or crows eating aburnt chapati or.............It's a thrill seeing my own stories unfold on the paper and thinkingsomeonemight see them. " 
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" H E A L I N G T O U C H "Lorna Schwenk"I have been a massage therapist for 18 years and have an amazementandrespect for the human body. More important to me though, is thatanyone cansit in the company of another person and share a profound healing.Simpleand trusting, the experience of "hands on" is a magic that belongsto us all."Lorna Schwenk has been a dancer, a singer, and a therapist. Shehas loved todraw since she was a child and plans to focus more time now onportraiture,illustration, painting,and stories yet to unfold.************************************************** 
Gabriele GottschlagGabriele was born in Duisburg Germany in 1960. She lived her formativeyearsin San Fransisco and has resided in British Columbia since 1974.Gabriele began her formal training in the arts in 1982 at the DavidThompsonUniversity in Nelson, BC. She continued her education at EmilyCarr Collegeof Art and Design in Vancouver, BC, graduating with a diploma forDrawingand Painting. Gabriele acquired her Bachelor of Fine Art degreein 1989.Her work was last shown in an experimental endeavor entitled "WorkInProgress" that invited people to visit artists in their studiosand observethem at work.Her last two person exhibition "Departure" was shown at theKelowna ArtGallery in 1993. Gabriele's artwork to date contains elements of landscape representingbothinner and external environments. The focus of her Estrangementexhibit is ofthe continual devastation of our environment and the indifferencedisplayedby both government and corporate powers toward that devastation.She isunabashedly reacting to this estrangement on an emotional level,allowingher anger and shame to energize her work.Gabriele's work is largely done with mixed media. She creates uniqueandintriguing surfaces with enough recognizable visual informationto move theviewer to an understanding of the artist's concern. Content isimportant inher work, as is the relevance of rich texture.Materials Gabriele uses in this group of paintings are greatlyrelated tothe issue. The conceptual levels in her paintings are conveyedin part bytheir non-conceptual features. The results are not always intendedto bepleasing but rather to express the harmful qualities inherent inthe materials The pieces Gabriel chose for this exhibit.... 
Impending This painting is about..not logging specifically, but rathernature ingeneral and the continuing encroachment of cities and suburbs.The abstractexpressionist painting expresses a natural or grassy area thatis tainted bypollution and struggling against the effects of the city. The metalboltedframe is used to enhance the feeling of entrapment and suffocation.Thehinged piece on the right side represents concrete, another devicetosuggest the encroaching "process". The hinged piece is loose andmovable tosuggest that, although inanimate, the concrete seems to have morepower tomove, or affect, than nature. The plastic layer over the paintedarea isanother device to bring across the feeling of suffocation as ourmodernworld continues its inslaught on the natural world. "Vacuum packednature"Lilacea Onion Pat. Pend. This painting talks about bioengineering. Chemical companiesare buyingpatents on plants that are genetically developed to grow dependantoncertain chemicals. Various chemical companies are now in the businessofbioengineering themselves. This puts the companies in the positionof minigods who will dictate that we use more chemicals in farming asopposed tothe more sane position of the eventual elimination of chemicalsin the foodgrowing businesses. The implications here are frightening, notto mentionthe profits that medical research are making to service peoplewho arecontinually ingesting these foods. The imagery and the use of materialsinthis painting are self explanatory.Primal Scream The baboon screaming in the city suggests that animals aswell as humansare not being considered when the development of a city is in progress.Adherence to greed creates an ugly environment that is as harmfulphysicallyas it is psychologically. 
BUSYBUSYBUSYBUSYBUSYBUSY for the majority of people there is no time (yet) to contributeto actionsthat would have a quantifyable impact on the ill health of theplanet andits occupants....and so....we slide and slide and slide and slide... My work deals with the effects of greed, and separation from natureon aphysical level. *********************************E l v i s P r u s i cP h o t o g r a p h s******************************** 
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