Nov 3 - Dec 23, 2022
LALANI JENNINGS CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
LYSE LEMIEUX
On Balance
All things considered it’s only lately that I understood how small and asymmetrical my world had become during those pandemic years - - Like an invisible thread had unevenly stitched time into a small cocoon and prevented me from reaching out or moving forward.
Sisyphus - - Pushing the boulder uphill only to watch it roll down again.
In many ways our lives have opened up but our world continues to desperately be in need of mending.
Some of the works in the gallery were originally made as ink drawings on paper. Revisiting them I wanted to remember but this time with paint and, on a surface where all edges must be considered, the comfort and satisfaction of stringing a line onto a simple and unobstructed ground.
Bal·ance
/ˈbaləns/
1. An even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady.
E·qui·lib·ri·um
/ˌēkwəˈlibrēəm,ˌekwəˈlibrēəm/
noun
1. A state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.
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Mains
2022 | 36 X 24
Acrylic and flashe on canvas
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L’ÉQUILBRE À QUATRE TÊTES
2022 | 36 X 24
Acrylic and flashe on canvas
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RADIO SILENCE
2022 | 36 X 24
Acrylic and flashe on canvas
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L’ÉQUILIBRE EN ROUGE
2022 | 36 X 24
Acrylic and flashe on canvas
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Robe Rouge
2021-22 | 10 X 8
Acrylic and flashe on canvas
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Untitled Black
2021 | 24 X 18
Acrylic and flashe on canvas
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La Robe Invisible
2022 | 14 X 11
Acrylic, flashe and stitched cotton thread on canvas
Untitled Waders 1
2021 | 20 X 20
Flashe on canvas
Lyse Lemieux
Lyse Lemieux’s interdisciplinary practice has focused strongly on drawing, and includes sculpture, painting, and installation. Lemieux’s practice reflects a honed approach and the lived experience of painting’s evolving insignificance and resurgence.
Most recently her work includes numerous public art projects, reflecting an implicit tension between the support and dominance that built spaces offer. Through considerations of process and materiality her work explores the space between abstraction and representation, while consistently maintaining an interest in the human figure.
Originally from Ottawa Lyse Lemieux attended the University of Ottawa and graduated with a BFA from the University of British-Columbia. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including the Canadian Cultural Centre; Rome, the Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, Oakville Galleries; Toronto, Richmond Art Gallery; Richmond, BC, The Charles H. Scott Gallery; Vancouver, Trépanier-Baer Gallery in Calgary, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto; WAAP; Vancouver, SFU Gallery; Burnaby and, the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. Lemieux has been awarded grants from the BC Arts council, the Canada Council and is the 2017 recipient of the VIVA AWARD granted annually by the Doris and Jack Shadbolt Foundation for the visual Arts. Adjudicated by an independent jury the VIVA is awarded to a mid-career artists for outstanding achievement and commitment to the Visual Arts. Based in Vancouver, two of Lemieux’s large-scale public art projects were installed in Vancouver in October 2020 and September 2021. Lemieux was recently awarded a Public Art project scheduled to be completed in Burnaby BC in 2024.