that's it! I'm outta here.

My adoring fans on the west coast will be happy to hear that I'll be embarking on a four-city tour of the Pacific Northwest (and Canadian Southwest) starting next week!

First stop: Portland, OR to visit my pal, the lovely and enchanting Jen McCabe. I believe a visit to the *real* ocean is on the agenda. With some great foodstuffs. As is a massive overload of pretty.

Then I'm off to Vancouver, BC to see family and friends.

Mission, BC is not to be missed, for an action-packed stop at the Coen-Ablers.

And last but most definitely not least, the tour will be wrapping up in Seattle, WA, the place where I was born and raised. There will be fish and chips. I have timed my visit to include a day at Bumbershoot, one of my fave events ever!

the pieces

Canapé Series #4

Canapé Series #1

Canapé Series #2

Canapés

Sushi

The first-ever vernissage went fabuliciously! Twenty-five of Montréal's finest crowded into Studio Dawson to ponder the thingies. I tried my hand at fancy cocktails (relatively successful!) and DJ Sophia kept us happy with the tunes. All in all a success! Now I've got to finish all my works in progress and make a bunch more canapés. At the next vernissage I'll give them all away. Heh.

Dimanche après-midi

Sweet Sixteen

Girls' Night

Head Room, or Brain Storm, or Diorama Lama Ding Dong (work in progress)

Take Me Away

Untitled (work in progress)

Detail from Head Room, or Brain Storm, or Diorama Lama Ding Dong (work in progress)

vernissage

Narrowly renowned for her small-scale assemblages, Eva Dawson is inviting influential members of Montréal's tiny-things-glued-together appreciation world for the very first time into her home/studio.

Event may or may not include edible treats, rustic colourful cocktails, live music, poetry readings and spontaneous group dance scenes from 80's music videos.

What the critics have said about artists other than Eva:
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"... has a poignancy, humour and ability to transform intense subject matters into an aesthetic and visceral language all her own"

"Seriousness and flippancy, rigour and self-deprecation, turn at the heart of ... work, and the staging of this, the largest-ever retrospective ... is rich with institutional irony and critical self-consciousness."

"... subverts collective history through recourse to individual experience, blurs boundaries ... skilfully balances aesthetic composure with the indeterminacies of time and memory."