"A Critical Beauty brought together the works of several artists whose practices were united in their interest in developing an informed aesthetic that retained "the beautiful" as legitimate within the syntax of contemporary discourse. Essential within each artist's work was the notion that an apparently traditional strategy was utilized self-reflexively, so that the production acted as both a critique and a defense of the practice. The problematic of traditional painting and representation became the object of critique, and the engaging as a means of recovery. The reconsideration of the notion of objective beauty without altogether disregarding ideas of harmony and balance, or pleasure an sensuality, circulated within the landscape of these works."--Open Space website.

"The nine artists whose works were chosen for exhibition expand drawing practice into a wide range of ideas, materials, and processes, including sculpture/installation, assemblage, painting, xerography, performance, text, and printmaking."--Open Space website.

" ... A collaborative installation by Sheila Butler and Jack Butler comprised of photographs, notes, drawings, an audiotape, and an essay. In a performance documented here, the artists work with paint directly on each other's skin, recopying medical diagrams while representations of the male and female body in Western art stand behind them. In their work, the artists propose a construction of sexual difference where the sexes are mutually transparent."--Open Space website.

"Victoria artist Sandra Meigs explores expressive terrain in her new project, The Basement Panoramas, connecting drawing, painting, sound, robotics, and perception into an experiential installation. Taking as a point of departure the invisible underthings of architecture -- basements and crawl spaces -- Meigs resuscitates forgotten, often neglected, storage spaces and charges them with potent psycho-social intensity." -- Open Space website.

"This Toronto artist brought the past seven years of her highly detailed drawings, paintings and lithographs of truncated women's body parts to Open Space."--Open Space website.

"This series of 40 black-and-white photographs of women at different stages of cosmetic surgery continued Smith's interest in issues related to female identity and self-image. The exhibition was presented by Open Space as part of the month-long celebration of International Women's Day."--Open Space website.

"Spurred by the retreat into the privacy of the domestic space, this exhibit deliberated ideas of the home: as status symbol, architecture, shelter/security, exterior and interior decor, investment/commodity, and as a site of personal expression and identity. This exhibit was curated by Roy Green (artist, poet) and featured recent work by Martin Golland (Guelph ON), Karina Kalvaitis (Victoria), and Robert Randall (Victoria)."--Open Space website.