Chery Holmes: Artwork & Theatre Merge Through Mixed Media
My focus on the theatre in my artwork is the culmination of many years experience as a feminist artist in the l970’s, a gay woman at the beginning of the AIDS crisis and as a community organizer with disenfranchised youth and the emerging gay and lesbian movement. As a founding member of Powerhouse Gallery — the first women’s art gallery in Canada, I had to rethink the traditional gallery format and exhibition themes and making statement art came out of that experience.
