Visiting the home of former Arts West publishers Caroline Leir and Deborah Pedherny, your Levitated Apples correspondent was delighted to discover this marvellous head by Jean LaPointe Mihalcheon - a piece we last saw exhibited at Calgary's Triangle Gallery in 2007.
Since we seem to be fixated on busts this week, it was a good excuse to dig up these other pictures of work from that Mihalcheon retrospective - which serve as a tantalising invitation for LA readers to discover this always pleasing artist for yourselves.
Described by the curator of the 2007 exhibition as a "Visual poet working in the medium of cermaics", Mihalcheon works in four distinct areas: decorative hanging planters, highly stylized sculptural portraits, architectural murals and wall pieces, and her later paper reliefs.
For the purpose of this little introduction, and to maintain our theme we have concentrated here on some of her highly distinctive ceramic heads, throwing in a hanging planter to remind you of her creative versatility.
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