January 2010
La Petite Mort Gallery presents…
MARTIN OUELLETTE
“In Between the Layers”
New Paintings / One Month Exhibit
December 31, 2009 – January 31, 2010
Vernissage & New Years Eve Party
Thursday Dec 31 / 8pm to midnite
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Artist Statement
“There is something sacred in the profane, something beautiful and lasting in the fleeting and forgotten things that get thrown away or left behind. My paintings are inspired from small objects found in industrial sites or junk yards such as details of worn out magazines, rusted nails or wooden poles layered with staples. These once purposeful objects have been left to decay to their natural element. In this transitional state, in this moment somewhere between glory and gloom, I find a world that we all live in every day even though we rarely take notice of it. I like to leave just enough elements of the magazine’s original self: a pixilated image or other graphic key words to form an identity to these abstractions. The image teases the viewer’s curiosity and their need to give definition to what they are looking at, as a result a personal interpretation is formed of the overall piece.
Time and the cycle of life of these objects are what I find fascinating. I see the aesthetics of decay – of a “natural” decay of artifacts – as one aspect. Then there is the aspect of time and history materialized; traces of time on a specific object, unique traces of their trajectory over time that can as well arise curiosity. I would like to think that the act of combining those images and creating a composition by painting them is a type of alchemy”. – Martin Ouellette, 2009
Thank you,
Guy Berube, director
La Petite Mort Gallery