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StatementProne to abstraction and experimentation, my process is both simple and complex it suspends the script allowing a stillness and what really matters ... the experience. Creating intuitively with no concrete expectations allowing one mark to lead to another in a fluid meandering discourse, sometimes poetic, mostly an unintelligible dialogue of a self-reflexive practise exploring with the activity of drawing and mark making mediating between drawing and painting within the ritualized space past fiction and nonfiction to a dimension deeper than thought. An improvisational process that lifts the veil allowing a metamorphosis of spirit into a physicality, while mindful of the blind-spot and the deception within perception embraces the contrasts and contradictions sharing moments of life and living and all that ensues within the timeless dimension of now, never resolved, never absolute, embracing difference, diversity and an inclusive culture. I invite you to walk where I have walked and sense all that is me.
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Bio |
Jeanette Luchese, an interdisciplinary visual artist self-reflexive practice grapples with identity, memory, and a sense of place. A first-generation Italian - Canadian settler with roots in the design arts creates in the disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking, painting, sculptures and when so moved transcribes the results to sound. A graduate of School of Design and Visual Art, Georgian College and Sheridan College School of Design resides in Innisfil, Ontario Canada. Exhibiting abroad and nationally at numerous public galleries including the macLaren Art Centre, Quest Art Gallery, and Campus Gallery. 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 Sculpture "What day is it? in Port Huron, Michigan USA, The Gathering #8. The Verandahs Bed & Breakfast by the Lake, Oro, Ontario and "Easy Rider" in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Upcoming exhibition of printmaking in September @ The PRNT Collective Barrie, Ontario. |