ONE OF FELICIA FRASER’S favorite parenting hacks is to occupy her youngsters’ consideration with balloons. Bored? Blow up these vibrant ones from the greenback retailer and bounce them round the lounge. Upset? Admire this cute heart-shaped one full of helium. In Fraser’s personal phrases: “All the things round balloons is easy, simple, and pure pleasure.”
So it’s becoming that the spheres turned inspiration for the Vancouver-based artist’s cheery new oil work, aptly titled Balloon 1 and Balloon 2. Sunshine-yellow balloons are adorned with the basic smiley-face design, surrounded by reddish-pink and cobalt-blue counterparts. The 2 items shall be on show from August 16 to 30 as a part of the Parker Road Gallery group exhibition Maker + Mom, which Fraser co-curated with Emiko Mizukami.
“I’m into portray shiny and reflective issues as of late—that vivid, blissful, vibrant aspect of childhood,” Fraser tells Stir by cellphone, on a break from portray a mural in Jericho. “I stuffed a room in my home with balloons, blew them up, shook them throughout, and took a bajillion pictures attempting to get some attention-grabbing preparations and reflections. The 2 work that you simply’ll see got here out of that.”
Maker + Mom options work, material items, and sculptures by 10 artists who mirrored on what motherhood means to them inside their artistic journeys. Alongside Fraser and Mizukami, they embody Laura Clark, Lisa Farrell, Alex Maertz, Marisa Myrah, Shannon Pawliw, Laura Rosengren, Shari-Anne Vis, and Dominique Walker.
