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article dans magazine ''ArtisSpectrum'' New York
I accumulate layers of materials,” says Maryline Lemaitre
in describing her canvases, and it takes only a short
examination to discover that the layers of which she speaks are
both literal and figurative. Achieving what she calls “pictorial
density” a process involving paint, dry pigments, marble dust,
collages and other media. Those materials are applied to the
canvas in a wide variety of ways, from large brushstrokes,
to dripping paint, to using old credit cards. The result is a
mysterious world in which things seem to arise from unseen
depths, feeling a bit like modern-day cave paintings, with the
subjects revealing themselves to us in fragments. Buildings,
birds or human figures emerge from dense fields of color
that often have the muted sheen of frescoes or weathered
industrial materials. Artist signatures will float across a canvas,
or a piece of printed matter will appear in mirror-image, with
the beginnings and ends of the words cut off. The earthiness of
these works is emphasized by a palette that conjures up earth,
rust and antiquity.
However, French-born Lemaitre, who now lives and works in
Montreal, has a good sense of when to let a block of bright
color appear. A band of blue or a field of rich reds and pinks will
be used to add some provocative movement to an image —
just one of the techniques that gives her work its astonishing
freshness.
www.marylinelemaitre.com
www.Agora-Gallery.com/ArtistPage/Maryline_
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A la Galerie Agora de New York
Maryline Lemaitre
The French, Montreal-based painter Maryline Lemaitre assembles her acrylic and collage compositions from recognizable fragments, abstract color fields and dreamlike visions to achieve an intriguing visual multiplicity in every piece. She stages what she calls “contrasts between ‘old’ and ‘fresh new’” amidst thickly layered acrylic paints embedded with found photos, illegible bits of graffiti-like scrawl, precisely drawn figurative lines and rectilinear areas of pure paint. Differentiated but also integrated, all these elements have a weathered, worn down sheen not unlike a Robert Rauschenberg wall relief.
The effect of bringing together these disparate ingredients within the same composition is quite beautiful and often surreal, but also tinged with nostalgia. In some a strongly painted figure or form will dominate, inviting a more narrative reading. Elsewhere Lemaitre juxtaposes textures, muted and bold tones, and controlled and wild abstract shapes, creating multifaceted compositions that reveal unexpected surfaces and surprising fluctuations of hue and line. These encounters between old and new, joined by layer upon layer of acrylic, always remain fresh.