LACEY JANE WILBURN DIET PAINTING #4 (AVERY) 2022 11 x 14” Media: Oil on paper, mounted on panel https://laceyjane.art/ https://www.instagram.com/laceyjaneart/ ARTIST BIO Lacey Jane Wilburn is a contemporary artist most notable for her paintings of portraits and interior space that undulate between gesture and realism with a raw authenticity. Originally from the Treaty 6 territory of Edmonton, Alberta, Wilburn studied Fine Art at the University of Grant MacEwan in Edmonton in 2009, she received her Bachelors of Fine Art from Concordia University in Montreal in 2016 after studying abroad at the l’Ecole d’Enseignement Supérieur d’art de Bordeaux, France, and most recently she obtained her Masters of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2022. Since 2009 she has participated in over 40 exhibitions across Canada and the US, and in 2010 she formed the street art duo LALA [Lacey And Layla Art] who have developed over 150 public mural interventions across Canada, France, Honduras, Uganda and Iceland. Now living in Vancouver, BC on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations, Wilburn gratefully dedicates her time between painting, teaching and scuba diving.
PROJECT STATEMENT The “diet paintings” are a series I began developing in 2020 in the wake of the pandemic, struggling as a portrait artist with a sincere lack of other friends, bodies and willing strangers to participate in my works. Soon after, I found an online group of international portrait artists seeking similar solutions who began sharing personal selfies as reference material to each other. These works then became my “diet paintings”, titled as such for the speedy, light, enjoyable and experimental opportunities in paint they provided, which I was creating alongside my more demanding thesis work. This work, “Avery” is number 4 out of 20, which I hope to grow into a small army of paintings sharing ambitious and artistic strangers from around the globe.
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