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Love [me] Tender: Photography, limited edition prints.

This series of intimate self-portraits has been a long time coming... it was my sister who was the "pretty one"... the "thin one"... the "smart one"... I grew up in her shadow... I was her little sister... never quite matching up to her, never able to be mom's "favorite"... These are painful thoughts, years of feeling self-loathing... today I took these photos of myself with love and forgiveness, and thoughts of "I am beautiful"... chubby, but beautiful... more

> Love [me] Tender, a film by Mary Bogdan (video 3:11 minutes):

Click to watch video.

Vernissage May 20th, 2010 | 6-9pm

Quebec has long shrugged off its strait-jacket on traditional sexual mores; at least two generations have gyrated their way through the sexual revolution that followed in the wake of the public renunciation of the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church. Yet positive, broadly representative, love-inspired sexual imagery can still be hard to find.

Twenty seven Quebec artists will express their feelings and thoughts on eroticism, romanticism, love, and sexuality in an evening of art and poetry entitled Hot Art: Explorations in Erotica.

Participating artists:

Mary Bogdan • Eric Bolduc • Judith Brisson • Joseane Brunelle • Jean Chainey • Colette Coughlin • Colin Dorward • Suzanne Elharar • Willy • Lana Hensel • Mathieu Laca • Sol Lang • Genevieve Langlois • Jenny Schade • Kathy Slamen • Yan D. Soloh • Bernice Sorge • Tristan Tondino • Melanie Tully • Caili Woodyard

Vernissage – will be held on May 20th, from 6 to 9 pm with readings of poetry and short prose in the language of love by Marco Armando, Duplessis, Colette Coughlin, Tina Korkeasalo, Joel Asa Miller and Alejandro Savaria, Rachna Vohra.

Body painting Lana Hensel

Music France Storm | Sid Gulick

Espace les neuf soeurs
1900 Wellington (former Bank of Montreal), Pte- Ste-Charles, Montréal

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L’art chaud
explorations dans l’érotique
18 au 31 mai, 2010

Vernissage — le 20 mai (18h00 à 21h00)

Il y a un bail que le Québec s’est libéré de sa camisole de force face aux principes sexuels : au moins deux générations ont vécu la révolution sexuelle résultant de la renonciation de l’hypocrisie de l’église Catholique. Toutefois, les images positives, représentatives, et inspirés de sentiments amoureux sont difficiles à trouver.

Vingt-sept artistes québécois expriment leurs sentiments et opinions auprès l’érotisme, le romanticisme, l’amour et la sexualité dans une soirée d’art multidisciplinaire, dans une exposition qui s’appelle L’art chaud: explorations dans l’érotique.

Les artists :

Mary Bogdan • Eric Bolduc • Judith Brisson • Joseane Brunelle • Jean Chainey • Colette Coughlin • Colin Dorward • Suzanne Elharar • Willy • Lana Hensel • Mathieu Laca • Sol Lang • Genevieve Langlois • Jenny Schade • Kathy Slamen • Yan D. Soloh • Bernice Sorge • Tristan Tondino • Melanie Tully • Caili Woodyard

Vernissage — le 20 mai (18h00 à 21h00) | poésie et contes : les langues de l’amour Marco Armando, Duplessis, Colette Coughlin, Tina Korkeasalo, Joel Asa Miller and Alejandro Savaria, Rachna Vohra.

Peinture corporelle Lana Hensel

Musique France Storm | Sid Gulick

Espace les neuf soeurs
1900 Wellington (former Bank of Montreal), Pte-Ste-Charles, Montréal