Painted Drawings
Wil Aballe Art Projects
June 6 to July 20, 2019
“…Amid legs and other recognizable body parts are undefined, aquatic-like creatures. Sometimes there are lines and curves that are two-dimensional descriptions of form and texture, but whose jumps, twists, and turns become three-dimensional when drawn with scissors. Lemieux’s work has a long history of sitting between abstraction and figuration, and here we see horizontal landscape influences as well. The stories in her poetic markings keep the eye moving, allowing viewers to make their own connections between each depiction. Her titles are just as animated and provide clues to her thought process for each piece: 1956, The Flicker’s Name was Le Black, Footless Archbishop, VANCOUVER, Vancouver….” - Akimbo review by Justina Bohach
Exhibition text by poet, writer and scholar Julianne Okot Bitek
SONG AND DREAD (2019)
sometimes there’s song & sometimes there’s dread sometimes an awfulness thick as lava crawls down the hill sometimes there’s gratitude & other times zen markings blue markings orange foot markings clay markings felt sometimes there’s cloth sometimes the dreariness punctuates sometimes it levitates sometimes there’s glory in the wearer of the tunic sometimes a halo or a cloud sometimes there’s music there sometimes there’s glory in the grey of the tunic sometimes there’s a blue halo echoed in black sometimes there’s a shoulder other times a foot a club a finger taking note a wailing child sometimes I love you I do sometimes the sunset is pink & it’s not a big deal sometimes the company of throngs won’t do sometimes I’m awake & I think about paper other times I think about how your laughter bounces back from the sky & splinters into shards of light onto the page before me sometimes your sobs are mighty & other times you’re aquiver in my arms one time you were completely gone & all I had left was a splash of colour on the dining table two tablespoons of memory & a fistful of aches
Photo Credit: Mike Love