Wendy Wallace is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Sheridan College where she received a Bachelor of Arts with a Specialist in Studio and Major in Art History (1984). She received a scholarship in 1985 from the Banff Centre's School of Fine Arts where she completed an independent study session.

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in 1994 purchased A Cultural Symbol Of life in Durham Region, during the Durham Artfest Exhibition, empty Warehouses and stores in Downtown Oshawa, for their permanent collection.

In 1997 her work was chosen for Art on Public Lands competition, and the resulting work, Symbiosis, was exhibited at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, 1998-99. This work was installed on the exterior grounds of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery during her solo exhibition Evolving Artefacts, 1999 and remained there till 2005.

Wallace's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions  including The Station Gallery, Whitby Arts Inc., Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough College, Durham Art Fest, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Kent Farndale Gallery, Latcham Gallery, Red Head Gallery and most recently in Mexico at the Kunsthaus Gallery. Wallace is a member of the Iris and Red Head Collectives
Wallace has received individual artist grants from the Ontario Arts Council and project grants from the Canada Arts Council to create and further develop bodies of work. Since 1999 Wallace has received the Ontario Arts Council, Artist in Education Grant sharing her art practice with students across Ontario.

Wendy Wallace's Images reflect on subjects that play with the metaphorical narrative. Overall Wallace's work recognizes that truth and fact are compromised continually in the environmental and economical quandary we are living in bringing forth consequential global interaction.

Of Mice and Elephants typifies the economic dependence between US, Canada and Mexico. The late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once described Canada and the United States relationship as that of a mouse in bed with an elephant. You always wonder if they are going to roll over on you.

In the painting the analogy is extended to the two mice representing Mexico and Canada, one mouse is being tossed away by the elephant characterized as the United States, while the other mouse crouches in wait.

DETAILS:
Of Mice and Elephants
6x4 ft. hxw
Acrylic on 100% rag paper with felt and velcro.