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ARTWORK DESCRIPTION
My work often starts with an investigation: What can an elemental line do? How many different ways can one unfold a house flat?
Trying to answer these self-imposed questions, I work systematically, with recurring themes of structures and rhythms, of repetitions and variations, often subverting the system I started with. Just as important as the rigor in my process is the expressive quality of the work. Etching, aquatint and more recently, spit bite, have become my methods of choice.
Here, in the series ‘Glow’, each work (Slip, Free, Lean, Open, Lift, etc) refers to the operation enacted upon a generic volume, the cube. I asked myself: How can a cube be opened to create a space? Again, an attempt at working on a simple element, exploring multiplicity, working serially. Each work in the series has a mysterious force transforming the mass, cracking open the cube to create an opening of sort, maybe a space, a hearth, maybe a home.
BIO
Geneviève L’Heureux’s printmaking practice hinges on a previous career as a practicing architect in Montréal. Her firm was awarded the Rome Prize in 2001 and it is in Rome that she developed a passion for printmaking. She taught architecture in Canadian and American Universities, and for several years at CCA in San Francisco where she now lives with her family. Since 2012, her main focus has been printmaking.
Her prints have been exhibited at many juried exhibitions: IPCNY (New Prints 2018/Winter), Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Atlanta Print Biennial, Marin MOCA’s National Juried Exhibitions, Ann Arbor Art Center, Site:Brooklyn Gallery and Prince Street Gallery in NYC, among others. Her work can also be seen at the 9th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2018 in Portugal.