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Margaret Herscher
Rowena Halligan
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Creative works of Rowena Halligan and
Margaret Herscher
The WCRC Gallery and Visual Aid are collaborating to feature
the creative works of Rowena Halligan and Margaret Herscher.
Both artists are involved with Visual Aid, a San Francisco
organization that encourages artists with life-threatening
illness to continue their creative work. The show represents
the first collaboration between Visual Aid and the Women's
Cancer Resource Center, two Bay Area non-profits who work
with individuals with life-threatening illness. Angelina Chang
curated this show.
Rowena Halligan's professional background is in scientific
research and she has a degree in veterinary medicine. "I love
the sciences, but art is my passion," she states. Halligan
credits her art with helping her heal through a series of
devastating life-threatening illnesses that she has endured
in the last ten years. Halligan will be showing her collage
paintings. Ms Halligan's work is in the collection of the
Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation in Napa Valley and she
is associated with numerous other arts organizations. More
of Halligan's work can be viewed on her website www.rocolors.n3.net
Margaret Herscher will be exhibiting her bronze book sculptures
in this show. Ms Herscher has exhibited widely across the
U.S. and internationally. Herscher says of her work, "Surrealistic
sentinels of my sheltered past, my sculptures have solidified
in bronze fragile items of my heritage creating icons of my
history. They stabilize me and give me strength in my unstable
life as a rebellious artist with fragile health."
The show runs November 8 through December 13th, 2001. The
opening reception with the artists will be Saturday, November
10th, 1 - 3 PM.
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