The Pearl Company

Stephanie Vegh: Revisions: Gallery Opening: Thursday, April 12.  (7pm to 10pm) No Charge. Respected Hamilton-born, McMaster graduate, artist and writer Stephanie Vegh has an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art.  Her body of work has been shown from Toronto to Leeds, England. Her playful, drawn interventions into history books are both humorous and unnerving. These drawings are both a direct creative response to the book’s contents and a subversive act in which the status of the book as inalienable fact is undermined by the interpretation of the reader.  While playful in the spirit of the idle student’s textbook scratchings, Stephanie Vegh’s  interventions into history books reveal a serious stake in civilizations defined by their conquerors. Her labour-intensive drawings of diminutive subjects at an excessive scale in relation to their illustrated environments refuses the logic of these books, forcing a fusion between their history and another, more fantastic possibility.  www.stephanievegh.ca
Hamilton-born artist and writer Stephanie Vegh studied Art and Comparative Literature at McMaster University.  Upon graduating in 2003 she relocated to Scotland where she received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2005.  She has since served as Artist-in-Residence with the Repton School in Derbyshire, England and written essays and reviews for various galleries and publications throughout the United Kingdom and Canada. In 2007 she relocated her studio practice to Hamilton where she serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for The Print Studio, contributes to the Supercrawl Curatorial Committee and maintains an eponymous art criticism blog in addition to reporting on Hamilton-based exhibitions for Akimblog. Her drawings have been included in group shows in Hamilton, Toronto and Winnipeg as well as a solo exhibitions at Hamilton Public Library’s Gallery on 4, Kitchener’s Rotunda Gallery and the Leeds College of Art and Design in England. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Hamilton Arts Council and is preparing a new series of drawings for an upcoming group exhibition of historical and contemporary works on the Brontë sisters.