SCREENED FOR (National/International Exhibits)

Screened For is a series of digital prints that turns fear of the viral, of the microbial, and of impending pandemics, into beauty. With these larger than life self portraits I am wearing medical masks painted with an array of microbial infectious diseases - Ebola, Dengue Fever, West Nile Fever, Cholera, Rabies, Rotavirus, Plague, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, SARS, West Nile Virus. With eyes closed or peering out tentatively, I ask the viewer to consider that fear and beauty reside in an uncomfortable dialectic, in this precarious time of contagions, epidemics, and bioterrors.

Screened For was originally exhibited at the Red Head Gallery (Toronto) in 2015. It has also been exhibited at:

National Library of Latvia in Riga, as part of the RIXC Centre for New Media Art and Science Festival, Ecodata exhibition (Latvia, 2020)

BioBAT Art Space (Brooklyn, US 2019), Summation & Absence

Islip Art Museum (Long Island, US 2015), Compendium

Riddoch Art Gallery (Mount Gambier, Australia 2017), The Rise of Bio-Society

Fudan University Science Gallery, (Shanghai, China 2016), Praising Science by Prizing Art

Gwacheon National Science Museum (Seoul, South Korea 2015), Seoul BioArt

Studio Arts College International (Florence, Italy 2016), From Galileo to Mars

The Body Electric, an exhibition, shown at medical conferences in Toronto and Quebec City (2017).

Screened For has also been shown as a one minute silent film (collaboration with Pixels & Plans) in the April 2020 newsletter for Labocine (Imagine Science Films), at the Bentway CITE Festival (Toronto) in 2018, and the Toronto Urban Film Festival (Toronto) in 2016 where it won the Canadian Urbanism Award.