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"I'm interested in people who don't fit the stereotypes of our beauty-obsessed society," says Montreal artist Sophie Jodoin. "I like people with edge in my personal life and also in my work, so I question what beauty is a little bit." Her artful interrogation has produced two compelling bodies of drawings, using as subjects her mother and "a little person" named Karine. Her quest in these two series-one, monochrome oil on mylar; and the other, charcoal studies on paper-is not to get realistic accuracy but to capture the subject's psychological character. Everything in the work, from palette to scale, is chosen to facilitate that investigation. "I want a personal dialogue between the viewerand the work, so small scale is better," the artist says. "When you work big, it enters the domain of the public." Jodoin's small figures are...