Maria Coletsis is an artist born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1965. After studies in studio art, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, in 1990, and an Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Institute of Art and Design in 1995.
Scope and content
The collection consists of a CD-ROM by the artist, presenting five quick time movies or slide shows of work from different periods in the artist's practice, and ten postcards, image of the artist's most recent body of work, "Paper Doll," and ten art cards, of the artist's work, intended by the artist for viewers to take away.
Note
The artist stated that: "My first paper doll was given to me by my mother when I was five years old. the experience of changing the doll's identity simply by changing the dress has provoked my investigation into female roles. By using the paper doll form, I examine the complexities of societies' layered interpretations versus self expression of feminine identities. I use historical and traditional archetypes, incorporating them within the photographs and dress designs. The paper doll's dresses portray the interchangeable identities (wife, mother, beauty queen, career woman, nurturer, seductress, healer, homemaker) and act as a vehicle to communicate these diverse roles. The childhood memories provided these examples from which I am now drawing on and re-constructing definitions for."
