ANITRA HAMILTON

New Multiple

May 25 - June 10, 2007

Paul Petro Multiples + Small Works is pleased to present a new multiple by Toronto/Berlin-based visual artist Anitra Hamilton.

The work is a ubiquitous white dinner plate that has the word "Ming" painted onto its centre in ming blue porcelain paint in the style of traditional Chinese brushwork. The work is 27cm in diameter and is available in an edition of twelve and three artist proofs. Please contact the gallery for price.

Concurrent with this exhibition is a ten-year survey of Hamilton's work at the Art Gallery of York University. Here is a text from the AGYU web site:

"Anitra Hamilton's Retrospective on Parade passes through the AGYU from 25 April to 24 June 2007 with a review of ten years of her work. Seemingly a march of the history of violence portrayed through Hamilton's ornamentation of mankind's weapons, this work is not so much anti-war as it is a probing of primal psychological drives. The retrospective marshals a number of the artist's parade-influenced works, including a twenty by fifty-five foot mural and a newly AGYU commissioned Audio Parade based on Toronto's St. Patrick's Day parade. On parade, as well, is the retrospective form of the exhibition, a ceremony we view through the veneer of cultural civility."