<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b><b><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800; font-size: 13px; "><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1E16" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 30, 22); "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><img height="113" width="180" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="e7538e59-5dee-48e7-a62e-440558a5ed65" src="cid:7AD8F863-0B37-434A-BE69-EC8AF82E04A8@uwaterloo.ca"></span></font></strong></span></span></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1E16" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 30, 22); "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">University of Waterloo Department of Fine Arts Presents</span></font></strong></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 30, 22); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">MFA Thesis 1</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br><br>April 12–28, 2012</span></font></span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Opening Reception: Thursday, April 12 from 5:00–8:00 pm<br><br></span></font><span style="color: rgb(255, 30, 22); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Gallery One</span></font></span></span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Linda Martinello</span></font></span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Four Corners Gateway</span></font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br><br>My landscapes are imbued with the power of history, myth and memory, embracing both the real and the unreal. This body of work is based upon my recollections of ancient sites that are in themselves composites, constructed fantasies. Existing somewhere between drawing and painting, these works embody signs of familiarity yet never quite come into focus. Through a process of contemplation and controlled responses to my notes and documentation, the representational and abstract information that I have gathered is filtered to create a world that is a meticulous and yet chaotic reinvention of my memory of sites and places that I have visited.<br><br></span></font><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Linda Martinello</span></font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> is a multidisciplinary painter and installation artist completing her MFA at the University of Waterloo. She received her BA Honours from the University of Toronto. As a recipient of the Keith & Winifred Shantz Internship Award in Fine Arts she apprenticed with artist Denyse Thomasos in New York City. She currently lives and works in Toronto and Waterloo, Ontario. </span></font><a href="http://www.lindamartinello.com/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">www.lindamartinello.com</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br><br></span></font><span style="color: rgb(255, 30, 22); "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Gallery Two</span></font></strong></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Joshua Peressotti</span></font></span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Uncontrollable Beauty</span></font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br><br>My painting practice examines accepted notions of beauty and taste within contemporary western culture. I sample and remix a variety of strategies derived from both aesthetic discourse and consumer culture in order to produce artworks that purport to be "truly beautiful". The conceptual basis of this body of work is predicated upon the connotations behind the ideology of "decorativeness" espoused by the late critic Clement Greenberg. In creating a suite of paintings using prescriptive colour palettes available from consumer paint manufacturers, my work questions the notion of good taste and suggests that beauty is a cultural construction.<br><br></span></font><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Joshua Peressotti</span></font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> is a multidisciplinary artist completing his MFA at the University of Waterloo. He received his BFA from NSCAD University and a Fine Arts Diploma from Fanshawe College. As a recipient of the Keith & Winifred Shantz Internship Award in Fine Arts he apprenticed with Angela de la Cruz in London, UK. He currently lives and works in Waterloo, ON. </span></font><a href="http://www.joshuaperessotti.com/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">www.joshuaperessotti.com</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br><br></span></font><span style="color: rgb(255, 30, 22); "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">UWAG</span></font></strong></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; 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"><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Contact</span></font></strong></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator</span></font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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">Driving</span></font></strong></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">263 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON</span></font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">-Located in East Campus Hall on Phillip Street off University Avenue West, behind University Plaza</span></font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">-Use South entrance to ECH across from Engineering 6<br><br></span></font><span style="color: rgb(255, 30, 22); "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Parking</span></font></strong></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; 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"><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span></font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">200 University Avenue West</span></font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1<br><br>Images (from left to right): </span></font></span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><b><b><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; display: inline !important; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; display: inline !important; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800; font-size: 13px; "><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold; display: inline !important; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1E16" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Linda Martinello, </span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Triple Cave Catwalk</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> (detail), 2012. Joshua Peressotti, </span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Homage-to-Behr </span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">(detail), 2012. Images courtesy of the artists.</span></font></span></span></font></div></span></b></span></font></span></div></b></span></span></font></div></b></span></span></font></div></b></b></span></div></span></b></span></font></span></div></b></span></span></font></div></b></span></span></font></div></b></b></body></html>