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Christine Vaillancourt PAINTER |
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 ARTIST'S STATEMENT:I am drawn to geometric abstractions, rooted in the early twentieth century work of the Bauhaus, Constructivists, Suprematists and Concrete artists. My intention is to time travel viewers forward to the1950s textiles and motifs and the Jetsons cartoon TV series, and on towards today’s technology. Circles, squares, rectangles, dots, and ovals reference pixels, bits and bytes, circuit boards or biological references to microorganisms, molecules, genes, or atoms as if suspended and moving slowly through a thick emulsion. I experimented with acrylic to create a technique to make acrylic (plastic) look like encaustic (wax), fooling the eye with illusional depth and actual depth through layering. There appears to be a calculated order when, in fact, the order is intuitive and irregular rather than precise. Geometric shapes with thick raised surfaces, as if cut out and applied, float between layers of thick translucent plastic medium. Tiny bubbles can be seen as the viewer peers through the wax-like surface. The objects, although flowing, are contained by the edges…suspended in an aquarium-like space. My work is a study of geometry, color, line, space, movement, and the natural, historical human connection of elemental geometry as metaphor. HOME • NEW & AVAILABLE WORK • SOLD WORK • PRINTS |
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