LAURA KRICK LYNN LAGOON 2022 11 x 14”
PROJECT STATEMENT This piece is a painted collage of some of my experiences walking around Vancouver. I gathered images from my explorations: the ceiling through the window of a restaurant I passed by in Chinatown, the green waters of a pool on a Lynn Canyon hike, and the planks of a boardwalk at night, and painted from these images. I am in part inspired by the Situationist International who were interested in maps and structures of the city, and valued walking and exploration for their political potential. Their concept of psycho-geography or the study of the effects that cities can have on the emotions and behaviour of individuals, inspired me to think about the effects that aesthetics can have on our experiences of cities and the natural areas that surround them. Guy Debord spoke about the concept behind his derive or “the drift”, an exercise that involved moving through the city in groups, sometimes taking routes frequently traveled and other times deviating from conventional passages, as an attempt to “study a terrain or to emotionally disorientate oneself”. I often wander with no specific destination, just to study by looking and photographing, and also enjoy taking alternate routes to get to wherever I need to go. I collect images to remember my experiences of places and what they made me think or feel because I like to revisit them later. By combining them in the painting process, I create alternate, and sometimes disorienting spaces of the imagination.
Media: Acrylic on wood http://laurakrick.com/ https://www.instagram.com/krickla1 ARTIST BIO
Laura Krick is a visual artist working on the unceded Coast Salish lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). She received her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto/Sheridan College and her MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her paintings use photographs taken from walks as a starting point. These images are souvenirs of her experiences of exploration around Vancouver. She collages snippets of her surroundings together, recreating a kaleidoscopic sensory experience of patterns and colours. She combines abstract with figurative painting, architectural details with natural ones and hard edged grids and lines with gestural sweeps and strokes.
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