The Permanently Pressed Series
Media: oil on antique ironing boards
Please note that these are original, one-of-a-kind paintings, not reproductions.
Size: 4' x 12"
Price: $800 each or $3500 for the entire series of five.
The Pink Series
Media: oil on canvas
Please note that these are original, one-of-a-kind paintings, not reproductions.
Size: 13" x 13"
Price: $600 each. Sold.
Wendy Sexsmith is a Vancouver-based artist who is known for her transgressive oil paintings of performers who push gender boundaries and traditionalist notions of beauty and success.
She graduated from Emily Carr on full scholarship in 2004, including one semester as a transfer student at The Cooper Union in NYC. Her work has been published by Art In Motion and Canadian Living. Recently, she received a grant from the Vancouver Foundation.
In 2010 she appeared on the cover of Extra West Vancouver in which there was an article featuring her work. Her paintings also appeared in The Vancouver Sun as well as The Georgia Straight and were showcased on posters and bus shelters advertising The Pride In Arts festival. She has appeared in group shows at Centre A (June, 2010) and The Ayden Gallery (Oct, 2010) and also has a piece featured in Art for Life, which took place on November 13th, 2010.