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SUMMARY:Melanie Authier: Contrarieties and Counterpoints
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]“My paintings bring together visual contradictions in one imaginary space. Each painting presents a brimming jostle of pictorial oppositions. The work presents a perpetual play between chaos and control\, the synthetic and the organic\, the technological and the natural\, flatness and depth\, the atmospheric and the geological… This re-combination of elements reveals aspects of the irrational and the evocation of unfathomable space.” – Melanie Authier. \nThe spatial effects of Melanie Authier’s abstract paintings show how artists can engage with the art of the past and transpose it into their own visual language. In her current works\, Authier evokes abstract\, formalist tendencies in painting that were current from the 1940s through the 1970s. Abstract\, formalist painting gives priority to composition and the physical properties of paint. It is not about subject matter. \nAuthier comments that she does not work from source material; her work is embedded in abstraction. At the same time\, she takes liberties with the rules of perspective governing the optical advancement and recession of colour and form. The rules of perspective are associated with representational painting. For an abstract painter to introduce such elements is surprising—it allows her paintings to suggest imaginary landscapes in which one might become lost. \nRather than drawing a line between formalist abstraction and representational painting\, Authier situates her practice on a spectrum between the two. The artist was born in Montreal and lives in Ottawa\, where she teaches painting at the University of Ottawa. \nThis exhibition has been organized by the Thames Art Gallery in partnership with the Ottawa Art Gallery\, Art Gallery of Guelph\, Kenderdine Art Gallery\, Galerie de I’UQAM\, MSVU Art Gallery\, and the Musée régional de Rimouski with funding from the Ontario Arts Council’s Ontario\, National and International Touring programs.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”15365\,15367\,15368″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nArtist Talk\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_id=”talkdate”]Saturday\, January 13th at 2:00pm[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Melanie Authier will lead an informal tour of the exhibition followed by a relaxed reception. ASL interpretation will be provided.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nWorkshops\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOP – Saturday\, February 3rd at 2:00pm \nWorking with multi-disciplinary artist Carrie Allison\, participants will learn the basics of watercolour painting\, inspired by Melanie Authier’s use of colour in Contrarieties & Counterpoints. No experience necessary\, attendance is free and materials will be provided. ASL interpretation is available by request with registration. \nRUG HOOKING WORKSHOP – Saturday\, February 24th at 2:00pm \nWorking with textile artist Joanna Close\, participants will learn the basics of rug-hooking\, inspired by Melanie Authier’s approach to composition in Contrarieties & Counterpoints. No experience necessary\, attendance is free and materials will be provided. ASL interpretation is available by request with registration.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/melanie-authier-contrarieties-and-counterpoints/
LOCATION:MSVU Main Gallery
CATEGORIES:Modernist Survivals,Painting
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