Excerpts from Articles of works in Group Exhibitions

 

1990 - The Oshawa Times, Equality: Sometimes it seems only the clothes have changed, Kay Fisher

A small colour snapshot of a woman's face stares out from within a clear glass measuring cup. The face is perplexed but resigned, a visual shrug; the red lines on the measuring cup seem to imprison her. The woman in the measuring cup is Kingston Artist Mary Rawlyk, and the work is part of the permanent collection of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. It's on display until April 22 as part of Feminism Revisited, an exhibit of Feminist Art staged to mark  the 20th anniversary of the federal government's Report on the Status of Women.

 

1976 - The Vancouver Sun,  C.B.C.Buys Wisely, Joan Lowndes

The committee has been alert to pick up the print which won the $1000. jurors' choice prize  at the last Burnaby Print Biennial.Called Wringing Shirt, it is by Mary Rawlyk of Ontario, an artist who has been exhibiting only since 1972. Through her acute sensibility to textures and materials,  she transforms her banal shirt into a thing of translucent beauty.

 

1976   The Columbian

Burnaby Art Gallery has opened its eighth Biennial exhibition and competition with more than 100 entries on display until November 9. Above, artist Mary Rawlyk of Kingston Ontario, discusses her award winning work “WringingShirt” with fellow artist Toni Onley. The Rawlyk work is a screen process relief etching, and won the Jurors' Selection Award worth $2,000.

 

1975 - Globe and Mail, Art and the CNE make for a mad mix by Bryan Johnson

Art guides at the pavillion say visitors have been reacting strongly to Mary Rawlyk's Wringing Shirt, a lithographed etching  of a cellophane - like shirt, on its way into a wringer washing machine.

 

1975 - Kingston Whig-Standard, Art Exhibition Features work by Kingston Women, Terry Reilander

For Mary Rawlyk, this is her second exhibition in a  relatively short period of time. Her first One woman exhibition opened at the Agnes   Etherington Art Centre in early October and consisted of a number of prints made on an etching press. In the past she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and has recently won a $1000. award in the Ontario Arts Council  competition “Editions1.” Her interest is in portraying the appearance of objects when they are in use and some of the works in her current collection  depict water boiling, a mower cutting, a comb combing, and so on. The prints, each precise in detail, depict the objects and their functions in a disarmingly simple way... The review includes a photo of Mary Rawlyk working on an etching press at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

 

1974 - The Citizen, Ottawa, Something for everyone. Wells Gallery, Kathleen Walker

Mary Rawlyk's diptych-like prints are fascinating and direct, yet subtle. She has a remarkable facility for portraying everyday subjects in an unusual and fresh manner, often combining black and white with a touch of colour as in Boiling and Magnet Attracting Nails, she gives an ordinary object life, and the viewer a new perspective on the subject.