'REFLECTION' AT OFFTHEMAPGALLERY
a sculpture installation by Clarissa Lewis
Director & curator: Antonia Lancaster

OPENING RECEPTION, Saturday, May 14, 2 - 5pm (artist present)
Show runs from May 14th - May 28th, 2005
80 Spadina Avenue, 5th floor, Toronto, Canada M5V 2J4
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 5pm

OFFTHEMAPGALLERY invites you to the quiet reflective world Lewis has created to express a sublime place in both the world and in the mind. A place where everything is deemed possible.
Antonia Lancaster, curator, offthemapgallery

CLARISSA LEWIS: As a child I spent a great deal of time alone with my thoughts. Thinking was a wonderful companion and I became intrigued by its workings. The organizing principle which underpins "thinking" is organic, rooted in our biological heritage and I believe, has a spiritual aspect. The experience of living gradually adds idiosyncratic architectural elements built from organic materials and perceptions until, for each of us, the whole process is an elaborate, complex, unique and constantly evolving conglomeration.
Clarissa M. Lewis, Artist, April 20, 2005

BIO: Clarissa Lewis was born in Hessen, Germany and lives in Toronto. She graduated with a BA, Fine Art [Studio], University of Toronto and a BA [Psych], Carleton University, Ottawa. Selected Solo Exhibitions incude: Reflection, offthemapgallery, Marginal Concerns, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener; Hold that pose, the picture is perfect! Dofasco Gallery, Dundas, Ont.; Enough Rope..., Women's Art Resource Centre, Walls of W.A.R.C. Exhibition Series; Moving Experience, White Water Gallery, North Bay and The Gallery, University of Toronto at Scarborough. Selected Group Shows include: A Book Arts Mosaic, traveling community exhibition, Canadian Book Binders and Book Artists' Guild; Bearing Witness, offthemapgallery, Toronto; Touchy Feely, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, This Decade of Days, Burlington Arts Centre, Burlington, Ont.; Under One Roof, Cornwall Regional Art Gallery, Cornwall, Ont. and White Water Gallery, North Bay; Stuff in Search of Meaning, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton and The Gallery, University of Toronto at Scarborough. Lewis has received several grants from Ontario Arts Council and a number of awards. Her work is represented in private and corporate collections.

I would like to express my appreciation to Antonia Lancaster, Director, offthemapgallery, for her encouragement to stretch and her courage. I also gratefully acknowledge Bruce Johnson [Forestry - Special Services] and his crew and James Dann and Harold Moffat [Parks and Recreation, City of Toronto] and Warren Schoeppe. I especially thank Paul Lewis for his constant support of my work.

For further information contact Antonia at:
Tel: 416 642 2113 or 1 877 860 0019
email: info@offthemapgallery.com
web: www.offthemapgallery.com