Laurie A. Thomas
dal 4/2/2010 al 4/3/2010
Segnalato da
4/2/2010
Laurie A. Thomas
Galeria Fernando Serrano, Trigueros-Huelva
The work of artist creates a bridge between invisible qualities and the real world; her oil paintings and drawings fluctuate between representation and abstraction. The subtle tension in merging abstraction and representation conveys a distinctly modern sense of disquiet in her work, while also employing supposedly traditional pictorial strategies.
Inspired by the expansiveness and peace felt in the northern landscape, Twilight Seen marks the end of the day, the end of the year, the end of an era. The work is metaphoric of both the earth's solid terrain and the gradual descent of light in winter. Twilight Seen consists of 45 small painted canvases that together create a single panorama. Photographic images from the artist's country home in Canada lie beneath the painted evening light and colour observed. As the dusk lengthens the inevitable renewal of life is anticipated.
The work of Laurie A. Thomas creates a bridge between invisible qualities and the real world; her oil paintings and drawings fluctuate between representation and abstraction. The result is a distilled presentation of reality, a secret world shown slowly to the viewer.
The subtle tension in merging abstraction and representation conveys a distinctly modern sense of disquiet in her work, while also employing supposedly traditional pictorial strategies. The flatness of her paintings and their appeased perspectives seem to play with imagined or remembered spaces and objects. Thomas' paintings generously reveal their method of construction: each mark is visible and clear, the weave of the canvas emerging smoothly, so that everything that went into the making of the paintings is laid bare, vulnerable. Her handling of oil also explores the sensual fluidity of the pigment itself, inviting viewers to analyze her surfaces, encouraging them to approach her work in almost tactile ways. Thomas also explores other mediums, such as painted photographs, moving between genres without limitations.
Laurie A. Thomas is a visual artist who has been living and painting in New York for more than 20 years. She has a summer studio in the countryside near her home town of Ottawa, Canada. She is M.F.A. Vermont College (Norwich University) and B.F.A. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University) in Halifax, Canada and the Cooper Union School of Art, New York. Her work has been shown in solo and group shows in Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax in Canada and New York, Miami and Hartford in the U.S.
Opening 5 February, 2010, 20h
Galería Fernando Serrano
Parque Empresarial de Trigueros, 3D
21620 Trigueros-Huelva