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2020 // Visitors, Saint John, NB.


Out of place, in disarray, not belonging. Objects mis-used, discarded, and collected. Defined by industry. Materials altered through recombination. Iconographic; descriptors of landscape. Memories magnified by representation. Abandoned attempts at mimicry. Of place, of home. Muscle memory. Well tread. Familiar. Distorted.

This body of work explores social attitudes towards landscapes and the tradition of landscape painting in art. Paintings and sculptures deconstruct views of well known scenery and common found objects from my experiences growing up in New Brunswick. The essential components of landscape and figurative painting are remixed, blending the natural and manufactured, the perceivable and imagined, to reflect on ways we shape and percieve the surrounding environment.

This exhibition was made possible thanks to travel funding from Conseil des Arts ets des Lettres, and was exhibited at Visitors in Saint John, NB, February - June 2020. 

> Exhibition images


> Individual works

Heat Shimmer in the Late Summer Sun, 2019 mixed media assemblage 24 x 30 x 2.5 inches What Turns Up When the Tide Runs Out, 2019 mixed media assemblage 18 x 30 x 2.5 inches Breaking Waves When High Noon Comes, 2019 mixed media assemblage 19 x 26 x 2.5 inches Drifting Ever So Slightly, 2019 /image courtesy of visitors mixed media assemblage 21 x 27 x 2.5 inches Reaching for the Horizon, 2020 /image courtesy of visitors acrylic and oil paint on panel 10 x 10 inches Searching for the Perfect Pebble, 2020 /image courtesy of visitors acrylic and oil on panel 10 x 10 inches Counting My Treasures, 2020 /image courtesy of visitors acrylic and oil paint on panel 10 x 10 inches Memory Theatre, 2019 oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches Everything Out of Place, 2019 oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches Weeds Spread Like Wildfire, 2019 oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Resting in the State of Things, 2019 acrylic and oil on canvas 48 x 72 inches Claw I, 2020 /image courtesy of visitors urethane resin 5 x 8 x 2 inches Claw II, 2020 /image courtesy of visitors plaster 5 x 8 x 2 inches Fisherman's Flowers, 2018 found rope, wire, electrical tape 28 x 31 x 1 inches Scrap Net, 2019 artificial flowers, carabiners, cut-out painting scraps, hitching ring, holographic streamers, pulley, rope, rope cleat, spray paint, tarp, thread, twine, and welded rings 96 x 60 x 3 inches


  
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