“NOTES FROM THE LANGUAGE OF EMOTION, A CONVERSATION WITH JOYCE WIELAND”

In Canadian Art, Spring 1987.

"JW: In New York there was a strong male Establishment and once you got in the door it was like joining the biggest bank in the world. You were bankable; you were the item. I recognized how easy it would have been to go along with the aesthetic and even remember a woman asking me, "Why don't you paint like them and then maybe you would get a gallery?" But where would I have been as a woman?"

Susan Crean interviewed Canadian artist Joyce Wieland for Canadian Art.

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