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StatementFrom the beginning, I questioned my reality. A First Generation Italian-Canadian, I did not realize I was not in Italy until I attended school. A humourous misperception that has fuelled an art practiced driven by a curiosity in perception, or more accurately, the deception within perception. There is so much before our eyes that the minds of some do not see, and I wonder why.
Prone to abstraction and embroiled in experimentation, my process is both simple and complex. I create intuitively with no preconceived notions, gambling on every mark. Everything I see, hear, feel, experience is the material I draw from; it has its own gestation period. It percolates away, just waiting to transmute the invisible to the visible. I have come to realize making is a necessity; I have no choice, ultimately it may all have a purpose, or it may not, trusting all will be later revealed, and that is ok. I have varied interests and enjoying ‘speaking’ about them in varied ways. Life is fluid, in a constant evolution reminding us that no story ever really ends in this wonderfully bizarre entanglement, so I grasp a glimpse of each moment and share it with you. |
"The Focus and the Fray (Solo Exhibition 2018, Campus Gallery, Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario)
Curatorial Statement — As each moment slides into the next, there are images and ideas that the mind will focus on. We are not designed to see everything at once. So, while the mind holds a focus, the rest of existence will reside in a fuzzy periphery that is the fray.
Jeanette Luchese’s work captures this sensation creating an impression of the space she inhabits in the moment. She draws, paints and sculpts each piece to a place where process itself is blurred and the viewer is left without anything concrete to ground themselves in. Creating intuitively with no preconceived intentions, she allows one mark to lead to another. The fluid meandering discourse, fueled by thoughts and experiences, ultimately finds within itself a significant parallel. Luchese’s work captures the fray that surrounds the periphery of a focus- – illustrated through lines, shapes and colour, new realms reveal themselves to the viewer and artist alike.
The work in this series reminds us of the possibility of a collective unconscious. Parallels are easily drawn to familiarities we’ve seen and felt. The work twirls inside of the liminal bubble where expression and communication meet in continuous lines of unlimited form, as though a snapshot was taken before the form had a chance to shift and slip away.
Sarah Elizabeth Leonard, artist/curator, Barrie Ontario (2018)
Curatorial Statement — As each moment slides into the next, there are images and ideas that the mind will focus on. We are not designed to see everything at once. So, while the mind holds a focus, the rest of existence will reside in a fuzzy periphery that is the fray.
Jeanette Luchese’s work captures this sensation creating an impression of the space she inhabits in the moment. She draws, paints and sculpts each piece to a place where process itself is blurred and the viewer is left without anything concrete to ground themselves in. Creating intuitively with no preconceived intentions, she allows one mark to lead to another. The fluid meandering discourse, fueled by thoughts and experiences, ultimately finds within itself a significant parallel. Luchese’s work captures the fray that surrounds the periphery of a focus- – illustrated through lines, shapes and colour, new realms reveal themselves to the viewer and artist alike.
The work in this series reminds us of the possibility of a collective unconscious. Parallels are easily drawn to familiarities we’ve seen and felt. The work twirls inside of the liminal bubble where expression and communication meet in continuous lines of unlimited form, as though a snapshot was taken before the form had a chance to shift and slip away.
Sarah Elizabeth Leonard, artist/curator, Barrie Ontario (2018)
Bio |
Jeanette Luchese, interdisciplinary practice embracing the now. A first-generation Italian - Canadian settler with roots in the design arts creates in the disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking, painting, sculptures and sound. A 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 their 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, waiting to reopen in 2021. A highlight! Opening and directing 'be contemporary gallery' in Innisfil, Ontario. Hopefully in 2024 our new normal will be filled with optimision for the upcoming: August - Oct. 2024 - Orillia Museum of Art & History, Orillia, ON, Curator Ted Fullerton. |