One Liners | Denise Hawrysio

One Liners

2009 · Etching

An Etching Plate Feels No Pain, SNAP, Edmonton, 2011
Situational Prints, Open Studio, Toronto, 2009
Situational Prints, Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg, 2010

Latch marks from the door slamming in my face

Because etching is about what you scratch on the plate from which you will eventually print, this “scratching” is usually about carefully deliberated passages of aesthetic mark-making. Not Hawrysio’s. Her etching plates are passive receivers of her lived activity, bearing, for example, Finger marks from the guy whose job I stole and Marks from the chip that fell off my shoulder. It’s all quite ruefully funny, but it’s also, more importantly, about your vulnerability in a dangerous world, about being constantly conscious of the things that happen to you. In the end, therefore, it’s a lonely show, brave, funny and moving. — Gary Michael Dault, Globe and Mail

Fingernail marks from the guy whose job I stole

28 x 37.5cm

Collection: University of Alberta Print Research Centre

Laying bare

28 x 38cm

Chip that fell off my shoulder — *Chip* that fell off my shoulder

Chip installed, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, 2011 — *Chip* that fell off my shoulder