The Lorraine 'Fritzi' Yale Gallery displays works by a range of contemporary local artists.
On Display Now:
Blood, Sweat and Neon Tears – Revisited
by KATA MEiC
Kata MEiC is an Ottawa-based visual artist, children’s book author, and creator of idfRNt® and -bcAUSE-®. She is drawn to beauty where it is not always expected: what is strange, wounded, excessive, fragmented, or misunderstood. Her work looks beyond first impressions and encounters intensity not as disorder, but as evidence of inner life. Faces, fluorescent lines, layered marks, and restless movement become a visual language for what is often hidden and left unsaid.
Blood, Sweat and Neon Tears – Revisited is a return to a body of work that remained emotionally and visually unresolved. The series is a re-encounter. By revisiting the original pieces, MEiC returns to what holds force: memory, instinct, survival, and unfinished emotion.
Across the series, forms collide, circle, scatter, gather, and reappear. Neon cuts through darkness and layered movement, registering states of vulnerability, overstimulation, tension, and release. What may first appear chaotic reveals a deeper emotional structure: the body remembering, feeling searching for form, and survival leaving its trace.
In this series, neon illuminates what has endured. It brings hidden feeling to the surface and insists that intensity itself can hold beauty. MEiC does not soften the work’s disorder or resolve its pressure. Instead, she allows the viewer to enter it — to experience rupture, excess, and instability as part of an emotional landscape.
Accessibility
The gallery is accessible via a staircase or elevator. There is seating in the upper lobby to support you in enjoying taking in the artwork.
Learn more about access at GCTC here.
Interested in purchasing any artwork on display?
For this exhibition, 50% of Kata MEiC’s artwork sales will be donated back to GCTC.
Artwork may be purchased through the GCTC Box Office.
The Fritzi Gallery opened to the public in the fall of 2007 thanks to the generous gift made by Janet Yale, in honour of her late mother and artist, Lorraine 'Fritzi' Yale and TELUS.
[Image Description: Kata’s art in the Fritzi Gallery, glowing as they are lit by blue light]
[Image Description: A colourful abstract art art painting with bold black lines.]
CONTACT INFORMATION
For questions and inquiries about the space, please contact:
Kevin Waghorn
Production Manager
pm@gctc.ca