Scenes From a Marriage
January 29 – February 16, 1991
Exhibition, Artist Talk
About the Program
Margaret Nicholson's Scenes From a Marriage is an autobiographical look at her own marriage—but it is also about the institution of marriage as it has developed in North America. The works are insightful and bristle with humour. Nicholson's meld of feminist politics and folk art aesthetics provide an exciting backdrop for this exploration of the marital arrangement. Her use of personal and family history as a site for endeavour speaks to a new feminist analysis where the personal becomes political and in the microcosm a more general picture emerges. Scenes From a Marriage explores the comforts of marriage but conversely implies our secret longing for freedom. The irony of the image of a large Nicholson with a miniature husband in her hand become humorous but physiologically revealing. She explores our desires to control yet remain free, the contradictions, secret desires, and the realities this confounding institution holds for us all. An artist slide talk was presented on January 31, 1991.Artist
Margaret NicholsonIdentifier
1991.0129 SCECollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (first location)209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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