 Louise LeBourgeois Ms. LeBourgeois continues her exploration of the contemporary landscape genre. This body of work contains images of water and sky, the moon, and fields occupied by boulders and stones. While her main focus is not the exercise of representing nature, she does use these elements as symbols of longing and desires. LeBourgeois paints landscapes from her imagination stating, "I do not work from life, or even from photographs, but instead invent spaces and places to explore landscape as a metaphor for a state of mind". Intrigued by the idea that the landscape, vast and outward, can stand in for an experience in one's interior life, Lebourgeois' paintings transcend their genré by distilling the elemental aspects, extracting their seminal attributes and infusing them with referential emotive experiences. This vision is heightened by her impeccable deftness of hand. By using layer upon layer of clear glazes, as well as soft brushes, she renders the evidence of touch mostly invisible. These methods affect the sense of time in the work. Immediacy gets erased in the process, replaced by a feeling of unreality. The images seem to exist not in time and place, but in consciousness. Lyonswiergallery has represented Ms. LeBourgeois since 1994 upon exiting the MFA program from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Ms. LeBourgeois received her BFA in 1990 from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin/Madison in 1985. Exhibition: January 9 - February 20, 2004 Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 11 am - 6 pm lyonswiergallery 511 W 25th St., No. 205 USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 242 62 20 Fax +1 212 242 62 38 Email lyonswier@hotmail.com www.lyonswiergallery.com |
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