exhibit905.info / Visual Artist Lesa Moriarity, B.F.A., M.Fem., B.Ed.
Independently Funded Visual Art
Painting Project
One Lake (once upon a time), 2009. Dozens of small paintings, plastic transparent storage boxes. Oil on lazerprints on canvas. Photographs. Installation.
Painting Class: Memories of A Non-Dutiful Artist, 2005-06. Digital photos and mpgs, on web site.
This Landscape, 2002-03. Installation. Acrylic on color lazerprints (dozens), canvas, museum artefact table.
Is She Still Working on These? 1999. Oil on Photocopy on Mylar on Board.
Bay of Fundy Background. 1998. Oil on canvas.
One
Lake
(2009, work in progress)
241 + paintings, color lazerprints and oil & acrylic on canvas.
6 x 8 inches, and 6 x 6 inches.
For me, this painting project occupies a place between painting, history, and theory, and I am never sure where it will land.
The impasto paint applied on my paintings is not intended to block the view of the photographic landscape image. The brushstroke is not a signature. Its’ presence registers with the photograph (laser print), at the same time both mediums are out of register with each other, and this takes some adjustment to view the paintings. In the case of One Lake (2009), there is also an impossibility of viewing the piece of art overall, because it is a large piece made up of many small paintings. This is not a representation of the sublime (early renditions of Canadian landscape painting). It may be an attempt to show the impossibility to show the expanse of the forests of Canada, that is impossible to capture in a photograph or representational painted images. My approach to painting is to achieve something with paint away from representation, away from the spirit, from abstraction, and from the conceptual, and to considering a sense of presence from the viewer, to participation in viewing.
The transformation of One Lake is now part of the project now: from oil to acrylic. In One Lake painting is no longer a process of exploration, but one of work.
Lesa Moriarity, BFA, M.Fem., B.Ed.
