Julie St-Amand’s rare gift is the ability to take the decaying urban landscape, and portray it with a poetry and beauty that celebrates the passage of time. As a student, this Quebec City artist interned in Europe with a master painter where she developed the technique of encaustic painting which involves adding layers of wax to a palette of brilliant and diverse colors.
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Paintings and title by Raul Perdomo
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Stephen Walter’s maps and Landscapes set out to challenge our first impressions, exploring the ideas about beauty and desire within the politics of space and the micro and macro cossoms in which we live. Under the guise of traditional techniques, his work reveals a myriad of words and symbols. The fantastical additions, references to history, trivia, personal experiences and local knowledge merge older notions of Romanticism with a fascination in the intricacies and the contradictions of our world.
He continues to use a range of media including drawing, photography, digital, screen-printing, collage and painting, and recently the applying of these onto objects.
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Alexa Meade has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. Her work is a fusion of installation, painting, performance, photography, and video art.
Rather than painting a representational picture on a flat canvas, Meade paints her representational image directly on top of her three-dimensional subjects. The subject and its representation become one and the same. Essentially, her art imitates life on top of life.
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