Patrick Mahon is curating the exhibit Sheila Butler: Other Circumstances. Image Credit: JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Winnipeg Free Press: Recentring visual artist Sheila Butler and her female gaze
September 23, 2024 —
“In a 1996 oil-on-canvas work by venerated visual artist Sheila Butler, the myth of Icarus is flipped. In her hands, Icarus is a woman — and she has a parachute. ‘She’s not falling to her death. She’s doing what we do as women: we find a way to make it work,’ says co-curator Pamela Edmonds. This work is part of Sheila Butler: Other Circumstances, a retrospective exhibition now on view at the School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba.”
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