Nicholas Metivier Gallery Online Group Exhibition and Video
20 May, 2020
From April 28 to May 23, 2020 Medrie MacPhee is exhibiting two works in the virtual group exhibition On Paper | Part I. The exhibition brings together a unique selection of works on paper by various painters and sculptors who demonstrate drawing’s importance in providing creative freedom and inspiration in their respective practices. The other artists in the show include Shelley Adler, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Joachim Bandau, Bobbie Burgers, John Hartman, Landon Mackenzie, Linda Martinello, Charles Meanwell, Ben Reeves, John Scott, David Shapiro and Richard Tuttle. Click here to view all the works in the virtual exhibition.
Medrie MacPhee presents two works in the exhibition, Spiralling Up from 2018 and Inchoate Encounter from 2019, along with the following statement:
“Many of these current works on paper including ‘Inchoate Encounter’ {2019} are part of a series that I did while a fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation just south of Genoa, Italy last fall – before the unthinkable situation we are in now. The Ligurian coast is a visual mashup achieved through the architecture whose exteriors combine pastel colour, fresco, faux painting and especially trompe l’oeil. Fairly austere conjoined buildings become grand through their “fake” windows, bricks, arches, pilasters, balustrades around windows and doors. The limited palette – strictly prescribed by public ordinance – animates each building within a harmonic order in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In retrospect the joy I felt in opening my studio windows each morning to the dazzling sea below seems manifest in this work.”
Click here to see Medrie’s “Artist Voice” blog post on the Nicholas Metivier Gallery website which includes the video below of a statement concerning the current Covid-18 crisis and five new paintings photographed in her studio.