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RECENT PAINTINGS

January – February, 2020
The Slide Room Gallery is excited to begin our season of virtual exhibitions with local, visual artist Mary Babineau (Victoria, BC) and her solo exhibition RECENT PAINTINGS. Babineau’s work is a poetic and indepth investigation of space. The space of a particular location, the space on the surface of the canvas, the space between paint, marks and movement. The artist places importance and value in her subject as well as how it is approached through paint and brushmarks.


RECENT PAINTINGS by Mary Babineau

  • Land of Opportunity, oil, pastel and pencil on canvas, 59.5”x78”, 2018
  • Turn, oil on canvas, 36”x48”, 2019
  • North End Night, oil on canvas, 36”x48”, 2018
  • Driveway In, pencil and oil pastel with collage on wood cradle, 11”x14”, 2018
  • Guardians, oil and pastel on canvas, 78”x54”, 2018
  • The Barmaid’s Stray, oil on wood cradle, 18”x24”, 2019
  • Scones & Fashion, oil on canvas, 48”x36”, 2019
  • Under Renovation, gouache and mixed media on canvas, 48”x36”, 2018
  • Today’s Complaint, oil and pastel on canvas, 78”x54”, 2018
  • Shopping the River Styx, oil, pastel and pencil on canvas, 32”x60”, 2019
  • Drawings from series, Residue of Promise, mixed media with collage on paper, 2018
  • Snow Day, from L A Y E R show, re-purposed materials and plaster of Paris, 2019

Artist Statement

My work is about where I go and what I’m going through. Paintings express my experience of urban environment, physical state and response to situation.

Process directs how I think through a painting. Some are drawn from my vacation photos, taken when I get a break from responsibility. I use sense memory and gesture to share the pleasure but am unable to deny what is seen, such as the contrasts of lives and fortune on the Las Vegas Strip, or the lot of work over leisure for servers in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Other paintings incorporate photos of spaces and objects in museums: using these I construct inviting sanctuaries which offer me comfort. I also work from imagination, exploring personal motifs and an abstract language of mark-making. There is a release of energy in the immediacy of what I am dealing with and by trusting to intuition and practice an image is created.

I’m currently working on a series about making it through the final year of my father’s life. He passed away recently at the fine age of ninety-seven years and seven months. I was his live-in caregiver for over eight years and suffered from sleep deprivation and financial challenges in this time. The solace I have found in beauty with the tandem flux of change, vulnerability and disintegration manifest in my work.

I’ve learned to accept tedious stress, share some sense of security tempered with dulling fatigue, and observe the falling apart along with the elation of making art from life.


Biography

Mary Babineau has a BA, Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, a Diploma of Fine Art and an Independent Studio Program Certificate from Vancouver Island School of Art. She works from sense memory and personal photos to explore experience of urban environments in drawing and painting. The gestural re-imaginings of public spaces create landscapes of uncertainty through which Babineau reflects on her experience of place and space.

We encourage you to look at Mary Babineau’s website by clicking here and to follow her on Instagram (@mary.babineau.9).


RECENT PAINTINGS by Mary Babineau

  • Land of Opportunity, oil, pastel and pencil on canvas, 59.5”x78”, 2018
  • Turn, oil on canvas, 36”x48”, 2019
  • North End Night, oil on canvas, 36”x48”, 2018
  • Driveway In, pencil and oil pastel with collage on wood cradle, 11”x14”, 2018
  • Guardians, oil and pastel on canvas, 78”x54”, 2018
  • The Barmaid’s Stray, oil on wood cradle, 18”x24”, 2019
  • Scones & Fashion, oil on canvas, 48”x36”, 2019
  • Under Renovation, gouache and mixed media on canvas, 48”x36”, 2018
  • Today’s Complaint, oil and pastel on canvas, 78”x54”, 2018
  • Shopping the River Styx, oil, pastel and pencil on canvas, 32”x60”, 2019
  • Drawings from series, Residue of Promise, mixed media with collage on paper, 2018
  • Snow Day, from L A Y E R show, re-purposed materials and plaster of Paris, 2019

Thank you for viewing RECENT PAINTINGS, a digital exhibition by Mary Babineau. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Please stay tuned for new exhibitions coming soon.


©Mary Babineau. Images courtesy of the artist.

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