Joni Mitchell gets solo art show in Saskatoon

by Deirdre Kelly
Toronto Globe and Mail
June 9, 1999

Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is to have a major exhibition of her painting at Saskatoon's Mendel Art Gallery, The Globe and Mail has learned. The exhibition, her first art show in her native Canada, is planned for the summer of 2000 and will examine links between her writing, music and painting.

Los Angeles-based Mitchell, who considers herself a regional Prairie artist, grew up in Saskatoon and has always maintained a connection to the place and the surrounding area. The Mendel plans to offer the exhibition for tour regionally, nationally and internationally.

Gallery director Gilles Hébert, curating the project, said yesterday the show will satisfy a couple of objectives. "I am interested in investigating the nature of regional art production and people who are working in multimedia -- someone who is a painter, a writer and a musician but who has not consciously made linkages in a formal way. And Joni Mitchell is a remarkable example."


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