Back in 2020, artist Maya Foltyn and I exhibited a two-person show at the Carnegie Gallery in Dundas, Ontario featuring Maya’s paintings and drawings and my ceramic works. Circular Dimensions merged two distinct and individual practices, taking inspiration from personal experiences and collective histories from all over the world. Together, our work bridged disciplines, roles, trajectories, and aesthetic languages in this ceramics and painting exhibition founded on circular movement.
The practices of Heidi McKenzie and Maya Foltyn touch and separate, intersect and cross over, flow in parallel and divide in separate directions. These are not linear trajectories but rather circular or cyclical meanderings, stimulated and affected by the machinations of society throughout time. They are dreams, thoughts, extensions of a willingness to understand or to come into contact with the unknown. They are meditative, rhythmic techniques tailored to the individual lives of the artists. They hold onto hope.
- Agnieszka Foltyn, from “A look into, around, and within Circular Dimensions – Heidi McKenzie & Maya Foltyn”
