London, Ontario.- The Art Exhcnage is pleased to present “Meghan Dauphinee: A Matter of Convenience” on view at the gallery from January 13th through January 28th 2012. Born in London, Ontario Meghan Dauphinee attended the H. B. Beal Secondary School art program, she then went on to study at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was a graduate at the Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, B.C., where she further developed her formal and conceptual proficiency. In her show “A Matter of Convenience” Dauphinee concentrates on the variety stores that populate our cityscape paying particular attention to the question concerning variety. When looking at her serial works one gets a sense that she is comparing: architecture, signage, branding – what it consists of and how it is made manifest though the small corner stores we have all come to recognize and in some sense rely on. These small nodes of distribution have a direct lineage that can be traced back to the general store, which would have a variety of essential goods for customers to consume in convenient locations – hence the other name for the “variety” store the “convenience” store.