If you’re in Toronto this month, you may want to head over to the North York Central Library to check out artist Karen Miranda Augustine’s new exhibition “AMERICAN EMPRESS: Credit for the Empire’s Troubled Royalty.”
“From Tonya Harding to Lauryn Hill to Amy Fisher, AMERICAN EMPRESS: Credit for the Empire’s Troubled Royalty is a solo exhibition that explores adversity as a rite of passage. Presented as a series of mixed-media paintings, contemporary pop culture figures are transformed into a series of credit card portraits that speak to far-reaching, everyday human concerns: the transcendence of loss, social stigma, mental illness, addiction and personal crisis.”
Exhibition runs: September 3rd - 27th, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 3rd, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
North York Central Library
5120 Yonge Street
2nd Floor
Toronto, Ontario
ARTIST SITE: http://KarenMirandaAugustine.com
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: http://KMAugustineNews.blogspot.com
For more about Karen Miranda Augustine, make sure to check out my interview with her for next week’s Shameless Women post.
