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MAGGEE DAY: PAINTING THE VIEW FROM MY DOORSTEP
15 SEPTEMBER - 15 OCTOBER -
Maggee Day
Oil and WatercolourDay’s work challenges traditional conventions of representational painting by exploring new ways to utilize tools in our contemporary world. The artist combines traditional painting techniques, rendering approaches from the digital realm and loose vandalizing brushstrokes to create complex paintings. Day becomes physically and emotionally charged as she fearlessly layers pigments. Intimate in scale, her works facilitate a moment of pensiveness, whilst her larger pieces consume viewers, pushing audiences to challenge their perception of three-dimensional space.
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The doorstep is where Day's exploration begins. The view is pulled apart into abstracted colours and shapes while retaining some semblance of three-dimensional space and elements within. By selecting this familiar location as the site of her study, the artist explores sensations and feelings through a lens of objectivity, embracing the mundane and every day.
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Day embraces accidental movement by changing her order of procedures and materials to highlight and celebrate moments of choice as a painter. This decision opens up a margin of error between what the artist intends to do in contrast to the realities of art-making. The application of paint then becomes a process of authentic movement, enabling the artist to fearlessly colour large scale canvases.
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Emily Carr MFA
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Painting that oscillates between abstraction and representation.
Day does not consider her works to be completely abstracted as they start from observations and photographs that are then broken down through her translation process. Extracting information from these references, the artists intensifies detail and emotion. Day continues to questions where the line is between abstraction and representation lines. Is it a sliding scale that every painting sits on? Can a process-based painting practice be representational?
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