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Maryse Desrocher with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Maryse Desrocher with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Maryse Desrocher with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Maryse Desrocher with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Margaret Heuser with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Margaret Heuser with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Margaret Heuser with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Margaret Heuser with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Marlene Frigon with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Marlene Frigon with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Marlene Frigon with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it
Marlene Frigon with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it


Maryse Desrocher with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it, 1996
Maryse Desrocher with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it, 1996
Margaret Heuser with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it, 1996

Margaret Heuser with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it, 1996
Margaret Heuser with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it, 1996

Marlene Frigon with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it, 1996
Marlene Frigon with her favorite equation and a painting derived from it, 1996


Education: 1990 Master of Art History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Toronto, Ontario.
1976 Advanced Diploma with Honours, Vancouver Art College, British Columbia.
1972 Bachelor of Art , University of Toronto, Ontario, and Governor General's Silver Medal for English, University of Liverpool, England.

Exhibitions: 1996 Tentative Equations, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
1995 Tentative Equations, Galerie Oboro, Montréal, Québec.
- Picture Theory, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1993 The Project on Women and Mathematics, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
Earlier exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery (solo), 49th Parallel in New York (solo), Optica Gallery in Montreal (solo), Mercer Union in Toronto (solo), the Edmonton Art Gallery (group), Agnes Etherington Art Gallery (group), The Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (group) and Dov'e la Tigre (group), Milan, Italy.

Related Experience: Organized (with the collaboration of Marie-Josee Lafortune and Optica Gallery) Messing with the New Art
History: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Recent Art History
(May 1996).

The Project on Women and Mathematics:
Since 1981, my artistic production has addressed, in various ways, the idea of binary or
polarized values in our culture. The key such binary is the very central distinction between the objective and the subjective. Associated with it are related pairs like rational/irrational/ (reason/intuition), male/female and science and art. The present project highlights, in as a direct manner as possible the presence of women in mathematics. Large (60" x 30") simple black and white photographs of local women who are mathematicians insist on the fact of female mathematicians. They indicate that female participation in this area is not just an exotic idea but that women exist at a variety of levels and in positions that contribute in many different, substantive ways to a mathematical community. Each of the mathematicians provided me with a `favorite' equation which then served as the basis for a painting (a type of very indirect portrait). I do not `illustrate' the equations but rather use my historical knowledge of, and personal intuitions about, both domains to produce a painting.

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