Melanie Authier, Over Eons, 2013. acrylic on canvas. 56 x 66 inches. © Melanie Authier. Courtesy of Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
Melanie Authier
Jostling Pictorial Oppositions
7 February – 16 March 2013
at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
[…] in my painting practice, I’m referencing the histories of abstraction but I’m utilizing strategies of representation. So within my painting there are elements of traditional Landscape painting: foreground, middle ground, background, atmospheric space, texture, variety of texture, scale of the formal elements. These things I’m playing around with but I’m translating them through an abstract language. I think that allows for some really dynamic opportunities to take place. I also want to create a little bit of confusion through those things where perhaps the background is shooting forward towards the surface of the painting, or depending on how I’m dealing with a shape they could perhaps carry simultaneously flatness and depth. […]
Excerpts from Melanie Authier’s interview with Rhiannon Vogl, National Gallery of Canada. Read or watch the full interview. Also see ArtSync interview with the artist speaking about her exhibition “Jostling Pictorial Opposition”
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Melanie Authier, Three Beasts, 2013. acrylic on canvas. 60 x 72 inches. © Melanie Authier. Courtesy of Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
Melanie Authier, Y-Formation, 2013. acrylic on canvas. 72 x 84 inches. © Melanie Authier. Courtesy of Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto