"The Third Sex: Thai Ladyboys"
The Work of EVOKE
Galerie La Petit Mort
Ottawa, Canada
August 1 - 30, 2009 / One Month Exhibit
Vernissage Saturday August 1 / 7 - 10pm
Tunes by Big Mac Daddy
Proudly sponsored by CKCU 93.1 FM
Production Assistant and photographer: Jenifer Rudski

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For his first exhibition at La Petite Mort Galler artist Patrick Evoke has created a series of remarkable portraits that are neither paintings, drawings, prints or photographs, they are an entirely new beast. These beautiful and haunting works are the actual physical records of cosmetics peeled from the faces of heavily "made up" transvestites, drag queens and working women of South East Asia."Each day these individuals look into the mirror and paint a self portrait. They put on a mask and get into charecterr. It from this middle space that these works emerge. In these works, the surreal theatrics of this cosmetic transformation merge with the wrinkles hairs and imperfections of real life. They are as intimate a portrait as one will ever capture.

Patrick Thompson's installations of painting, wall drawings, printmaking and sculpture, are investigations of the idea of information; explored through mass media, architecture, history and the dynamics of culture, developed equally by their range and their lyrical visual language Highly esteemed for pushing the boundaries of street art, he has painted outdoors under the pseudonym Evoke throughout North and Central America, Europe, and Asia. Thompson is often placed into the "Canadian School" of street artists including Other, Labrona, and Thesis Sahib -- a group known for their inspired improvisations and openness towards freeform mark making.