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She wrote this in 1929 following on the heels of the great novels where women had principal roles but very little agency or bargaining power other than their beauty.

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This exhibition demonstrates where a woman can go to when she has the liberation of an open slate and place to work. Lock works from a large well-lit studio that is attached to her home in Lake Country. She graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1992 and moved back to the Okanagan soon after where she has pioneered her unique imagery influenced by grunge music and coming-of-age movies.

Lock exhibits across Canada. Her latest body of multi-media works are based on the covers of harlequin romance novels. Locksa国际传媒檚 mother having been a fan of the genre, she grew up with these idealized images of what a woman could expect from romance.

Headbones introduces this new series from Lock with earlier works where she used herson, then a young teen, as a model. These large, accomplished, emotive paintings of her offspring bring the fulfillment of mothering into the visual arena, according to the gallery.

Lock will be in attendance at the reception at Headbones Gallery, at 6700 Old Kamloops Road, in Vernon.

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