en-ca SC0370-WMA-MM-1

en-ca Newnham - Building B - Level 2 - Library

en-ca Marsha Wineman (b. 1947)

en-ca Many are Chosen but Few are Called

en-ca 1989

en-ca Mixed Media

en-ca Painting, applique, printing, monoprint, photo montage, machine sewing.

en-ca 106.7 x 243.9 cm

en-ca “Many are Chosen but Few are Called was done upon returning from a trip to Europe in 1988. I was influenced by the antiqued wall textures in so many places. Prior to this trip I had completed a commission for the University of Manitoba general education faculty lounge where strong sunlight coming through Bauhaus ribbon windows provided a perfect situation for backlit printed with pigment images captured from TVs. Some fifteen various images photographed from tv and representing a range of icons from popular culture, were silk-screen printed on cloth and made into roller blinds. Subsequently, I experimented with these images by using them as representatives of various concepts, as I did here. Perhaps a flower in her hair will differentiate one demure female from the others who have positioned themselves to be noticed by heavenly a power.

As a child I played with the sewing machine that was in our basement. It was a treadle. I didn’t sew using thread then but, just rocked the floor pedal as hard as I could and watched the needle bar go into action. Later in my studio, in Winnipeg, I found an abandoned postcard of a quilt, Reason Over Passion said the puffy letters by Joyce Weiland. This was a pivotal moment for me. It was 1972, the time when isms in art flourished; conceptualism, pop art, found objects incorporated in painting and installations, all screwed with Clement Greenberg’s tidy Kantian perimeters for what he deemed to be art. Feminism was brandished and woman’s work, the whole of it including needle work and fabric usage, became viable as art. I embraced all the possibilities I could. I quilted large photographs, constructed a fabric bas-relief horse or circus scenes and generally became committed to elevating the techniques of sewing into exhibition acceptable media. Years later, out of this material driven trajectory, I produced Many are Chosen but Few are Called.” (Marsha Wineman, Seneca Polytechnic)

en-ca Purchased from Gurevich Gallery in January 2020. Marsha Wineman was a former employee of Seneca.

en-ca Signed right under the last figure, Wineman

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