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RETROSPECTIVE OF THE ROAD SHOW EXHIBIT BY BERNICE VINCENT (1934 -2016) 

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Bernice Vincent at the Forest City Galley, 1990, Photograph of Bernice Vincent with her show at the Forest City Gallery, 1990
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Daddy How Long Till We Get There, 1990, Acrylic paint on board
"Highways have brought the countryside closer, but familiarity has bred the usual consequence. In [How Long Till We Get There] a car speeds away beyond a fetching-looking landscape that it clearly has sped into and out of without even slowing down. ... Wherever "there" is, the work implies, those kids and their daddy had already got somewhere worth getting to and hadn't even known it."

​Doug Bale, London Free Press, October 19, 1991
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Passing Through the Landscape, 1991, acrylic on wooden cigar box top with Melamine-clad pedestal, Collection of Museum, London. Gift of the artist, 2006
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Ribbon Box, 1991, Sculpture, cardboard box, paper, acrylic paint
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The View Ahead, 1990, acrylic on panel, Collection of Museum London. Gift of the artist, 2006
From "The Road Show" at Gibson Gallery, 1991

During the past few years, I have made a series of paintings concentrating on our contemporary use of the land. Some of these paintings have included variations on a generic white car, "Everycar" travelling along hard-edged grey roads that are imposed on masses of detailed, lush, green landscape - similar to the summertime landscape of South Western Ontario.

More recently, for the "Road Show", I have used cut-out formats, three dimensional pieces, and other formal devices to emphasize the thrust of the raods, and to draw the viewer into each individual work. The exhibition itself is shaped to take the viewer from a somewhat amused reaction to the unexpected treatment of a familiar environment, to a more sombre, indeed appalling, presentation of the roads that lead us to the desecration of more distant sites.

"Northern Vision" is a symbolic presentation of the scars made on the landscape by clear cutting. "Southern Vision" is an installation in which the road leads into an apocalyptic vision of the burning of rain forest, with painted smoke billowing upthe wall and onto the ceiling above the viewer, threatening to engulf everything around it.

-Bernice Vincent​
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Northern Vision: Clear Cutting, 1991, Acrylic paint on board 52" x 40"
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​Southern Vision: Burning the Rainforest, 1991, Installation: Acrylic paint on board and acrylic paint on gallery wall and ceiling, Cut out painting on board, 52" x 40"

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White Car Coming Into the Picture, Acrylic paint on board with cutout 24" x 36", 1989

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Driving Home, Acrylic paint on board with cutout, 24" x 28", 1989
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Fragment, Acrylic paint on board in three panels, 96" x 108". 1989


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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