Review by Jared Weiss
It is not often that you see contemporary artists working in the Renaissance medium of fresco. Alicia LaChance does just that. Entitled "Headlong past and fast forward", LaChance's latest show will be premiering at the Melanee Cooper Gallery from September 11th - October 31st, 2009.
If you're not familiar, fresco is technique of painting watercolor into wet plaster and was used frequently on the walls of cathedrals and churches. LaChance employs this technique on canvas and creates grid-like works of nature, color, and design. They are very rectilinear. Numerous squares and rectangles are interspersed on the canvas filled with layers of color. "My work intends to create a story of continuity between the past and present by collaging small bits of, what I consider contemporary graphic symbolism with nature reference," says
LaChance. She is inspired by the simplicity of design used by Japanese printmakers and "ancient, worn temple walls."
Melanee Cooper herself emphasized the interchangeability and how the artist desires her work to be rearranged and hung in numerous combinations. She remarked how the work can be hung as a single piece or as an installation covering an entire wall. It's almost like one big interchangeable fresco painting, on canvas!
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