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Luanne Martineau: new work

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OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 4 from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

ON VIEW: June 4 - June 30, 2004

ThreeWalls is pleased to present their second resident artist, Luanne Martineau. Martineau will be exhibiting her new sculpture that was completed during her May residency. At the conclusion the exhibition, the installation will travel to Perfect Fools, Stockholm, Sweden for re-exhibition in July. The exhibition will be on view from Friday, June 4 through Friday, June 30, 2004. There will be a free public opening reception on Friday the 4th of June from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Miles Orvell (author of The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture) describes the junkyard as the “anti-world of the technological civilization…a system of disorder, of things gone wrong, of waste, a negative in the balance sheet of civilization.” Luanne Martineau takes the junkyard as a point of departure, locating the racial, intellectual and aesthetic tensions of the 20th Century as the detritus on which current culture is built.

Martineau has long expressed an interest in the tensions between realism and abstraction, and her means of work: drawings made on typewriters, soft sculpture with a knitted, tartan or felt shell, and detailed embroideries of wastelands negotiate that position by her combination of the vernacular with abstracted forms.

Luanne Martineau is an artist, curator and educator residing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Her work as been exhibited widely throughout Canada and Europe including a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Links: 

new work exhibition booklet

Martineau at Jessica Bradley Art Projects

Martineau recipient of VIVA award in 2007 

Martineau at Trepanier Baer Gallery