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Julie Voyce

Worker Foot, 1989-1990

Sept 29-Oct 20, 2001

The delicate balance of grit and grace, gambling and thrift (thank you Oliver Girling) and a constant sense of wonder are traits shared by Toronto-based artists Janet Morton and Julie Voyce.

Julie Voyce has remained a constant and reassuring presence on the Toronto art scene since she graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1980. The lithographs in this show represent an entire body of work executed at Open Studio, Toronto in 1989-90 with the assistance of a Nick Novak scholarship. The contact point of grease pencil on lithographic stone is downright sexy, according to Voyce (she spent thirty hours on the stone coming up with Scarecrow, one of the works in the show). A consummate print-maker, Voyce says that if all the print shops in the world closed down she'd have to take up stencil-making. The next installment to her extensive exhibition history takes place in Fall 2002 with Voyce's Abstracts at the new location for Paul Petro Contemporary Art: 980 Queen St West (at Ossington).