STELLA WALKER

RECENT PAINTINGS

ART BAR
Friday June 2, 2006 to Thursday June 15, 2006
Exhibition Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 12 -5

Opening Reception Friday June 2, 2006 7pm -10pm  

And Don't Miss - "Stella and the Fallen Stars", a vaudeville cabaret in the Melody Bar on Saturday, June 10 from 5pm to 8pm

Stella Walker recently returned to painting after a two decade interval during which she worked as a classical singer, actor, vaudevillian, comic, writer, producer, voice coach, and respected interpreter of Yiddish art song. Stella's show biz credits include national broadcasts on the Comedy Network, CBC, CTV and Bravo!

The divine Gladstone Hotel is the venue of choice for Stella Walker¹s first Queen Street show. This series of recent paintings includes colourful landscapes, pensive portraits, and light-hearted renderings of whimsical objects. Walker paints on wood panels, mixing opaque acrylics with iridescent and metallic paints.  

"I work in a sunny Toronto studio, relishing the non-verbal bliss of mixing big messy mud pies of colour and glitz, then smearing the paint with thick brushes on mahogany panels. The paintings tell the story of my emotional world. The portraits of women are drawn from my imagination. They may resemble me somewhat, or have the features of my friends or a stranger on the subway. The landscapes reflect my love for the location and my visceral experience of a place."

Please feel free to attend the opening on Friday June 2 from 7-10 to mingle and squint at the art. Stella Walker¹s solo art show at the Gladstone Hotel will knock your socks off.  

The following weekend, join Stella and her show biz buddies at the Gladstone Hotel in the adjacent Melody Bar on Saturday, June 10 from 5 to 8 for "Stella and the Fallen Stars", a vaudeville cabaret. Stella will give you your socks back.   Promise. Enjoy a sonic blast of show tunes, Yiddish songs and rhyming couplets, illustrated with cardboard cut outs and instructional material.   Fill that yawning gulf of existentialist angst with fun, fun, fun!

"Take a classically trained opera singer, a comic actor, a dancer, a satirist, a cook, a psychoanalyst, a puppeteer and a watcher of the weirdness of society and condense them into one person.   What do you get?
Stella Walker"

The Evening Telegram, St. John¹s Newfoundland.