Sheila Butler

Sympathetic Magic

Feb 5-26, 2000

Paul Petro Contemporary Art is pleased to present new drawings by Sheila Butler, one of Canada's most important senior artists. Butler's new drawings appear in a bookwork entitled Sympathetic Magic and are exhibited in conjunction with her exhibition opening Thursday February 3, 2000 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga:

"This bookwork project by Sheila Butler accompanies an exhibition which brings together seminal paintings from the past twenty-five years of her work. This backward glance is complemented by a selection of the artist's most recent works on paper, which illuminate current directions in her drawing and thought processes. Exhibitions are opportunities, not just for an audience but also for the maker, to step back, to examine and to revisit a body of work. This bookwork has allowed the artist to do just that."

- Stuart Reid
curator, Art Gallery of Mississauga