IN MOTION
October 12 – November 18
John Goodman & Geneviève L’Heureux
Gallery doors will be open on Tuesday, Oct. 8 for early preview
Opening Reception Saturday, October 19, 4-6 PM
Andra Norris Gallery is proud to present IN MOTION, a collection of new oil paintings and works on canvas from two extraordinary contemporary Bay Area artists: figurative painter John Goodman, and abstract printmaker Geneviève L’Heureux. Each artist employs a minimalist approach to create subtle stories that are “in motion.”
John Goodman
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American painter who draws inspiration from the early modernists and the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Using his signature thick impasto paint and a minimal range of colors, the artist sculpts and draws to create painterly surfaces that are charged with directness and intensity. His images are consistently figurative, yet in each, there is a strong pull towards abstraction.
Goodman’s oil paintings are often based on his drawings from weekly sessions with a live model, yet his newest work is inspired by “found” 16th century drawings by unknown artists, and it features theatrical scenes that capture multiple people in varying states of action. Goodman uses the simple line drawings as a point of departure for imagining dramatic narratives of which even he does not know the origin. Yet through these mysterious but “familiar” scenes, there is a thread that connects the contemporary viewer with the distant pasts of people and places.
Geneviève L’Heureux
Geneviève L’Heureux earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Université de Montréal and a Master in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University. She practiced and then taught architecture for many years before developing a passion for printmaking in Rome, where she was a recipient of the Canadian Rome Prize in 2001. Printmaking has been her main occupation since 2012.
The preferred techniques of L’Heureux include etching, aquatint, mezzotint, and chine collé. In her newest series, she prints with printmaking ink or blank plates directly on canvas. The textiles are either stretched on wood bars or freely hung from a thin rod. While looking from one work to the next, viewers experience movement and rhythmic harmony shaped by invisible forces. In the words of Swiss architect Georges Descombes, “Not to see the trees, but the wind that they make visible. The eddies of the water more than the banks. … It is in the confrontation with the resistance of things, of the world, that we find form.”
We are also delighted to present Phase, a new series of aquatint etchings on paper, in which slight color shifts — aquamarine (Breeze), umber (Dune), rose (Bloom) — and alternating configurations of line and shape produce results that can both stand alone or silently speak to one another. The elegant reflection on transience reminds us of the cyclical nature of things and celebrates our true nature, which is one of continuous transformation.
For more information, please contact Andra Norris.
ANDRA NORRIS GALLERY
311 Lorton Avenue
Burlingame, CA 94010
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