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StatementProne to abstraction and embroiled in experimentation, my process is both simple and complex. I create intuitively with no preconceived notions, gambling on each and every mark. Every thought and experience holds the material I draw from; it has its own gestation period, percolating away at the ready to transform, transmuting the invisible to the visible in wonderfully unpredictable ways. Like life, fluid, constantly evolving a story that never really ends in this bizarre entanglement that we all play a part in. Varied interests express themselves in varied ways through varied disciplines, some traditional, most not. Making is a necessity; there is no choice. There may be a known purpose, or there may not be, and that is ok; I grasp a glimpse of each happening and share it with you to complete the circle.
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Jeanette Luchese, A first-generation Italian - Canadian settler, visual artist with roots in the design arts creates in the disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking, painting, sculptures and sound. Gallery director, graduate of School of Design and Visual Art, Georgian College (Barrie) and Sheridan College School of Design (Oakville) resides in Innisfil, Ontario Canada. Exhibiting Internationally and regionally at numerous public galleries including the macLaren Art Centre (Barrie), Quest Art Gallery (Midland), Orillia Museum of Arts & History (Orillia) and Campus Gallery, (Barrie). A grant recipient of the Ontario Art Council and the City of Barrie Culture Department, with numerous awards. Recipient of the 2014 "Great Visual Arts Golden Eagle Trophy - Award of Honour, Salerno, Italy and 2015 the Kandinsky Award of Creativity, Salerno, Italy. Published in Abstract | Ext, A first approximation to abstract literature¹ by David Quiles Guilló: 'Gone Once,' page 76 (April 2015 45 authors. Printed in Spain). Short Listed for the 2015 Gwendolyn MacEwen Exile Poetry Competition 'From there to here,' published in ELQ Exile: The Literary Quarterly July Edition 2016. Ending 2018 with The Focus and the Fray, a regional public gallery solo exhibition held at Campus Gallery, curators Sarah Elizebeth Leonard and Cory Van der Vliet - The Helen and Arch Brown Centre, Georgian College Barrie, Canada and honoured to of created the 2018 Barrie Art Awards Sculptures (statuettes) Public Art: 2019 Participating in #ISDAY International Sculpture Day, Innisfil Sculpture Group partnering with Innisfil IdeaLAB, 'Sculptures in Uncommon Places" . "What day is it? resides in Port Huron, Michigan USA: The Gathering #8. The Verandahs Bed & Breakfast by the Lake in Oro, Ontario and "Easy Rider" in Barrie, Ontario, Canada — 2019 Florence, Italy, OCADU's Summer Studio Master Class [June] with Nicole Collins and Anda Kubis, ending the year with a solo exhibtion of experimental printmaking "Surviving Death : Ressurecting Memories at the PRNT Collective Barrie, Ontario.
2020 ... then there was a pandemic. Finding solace in the words of Alan Watts "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” The Februrary 8, 2020 'On the Edge' Orillia Museum of Art and History, (Orillia) did happen, but it as many things closed in March, the exhibition at Be Contemporary Gallery in Innisfil as well closed March 14th. #ISDay happened in small ways, April 25 2020 - #ISDAY 2020, Inspiring Innisfil i200, partnering with Innisfil IdeaLAB Art happened in 2021 and "Not even the poets" Quest Art Gallery, Midland, ON. Curator Virginia Eichhorn is now as 'Sleeping Beauty' dormant, now reopened. Director, curator 'be contemporary gallery' Innisfil, Ontario 2020 to 2021. 2022 Regrouping - stay tuned. 2024 August - October - Orillia Museum of Art & History, Orillia, ON, Curator Ted Fullerton. |