Lot
30
Lift Up and Up and Up
Huile sur panneau de bois découpé à la main, 2017
38 x 45 cm
Valeur estimée
1 400 $
Lift Up and Up and Up fait partie de la série Brick Wave Suede and Lilacs Too (2017), dans laquelle l’artiste poursuit son exploration des idées associées à l’imaginaire émotionnel, au visage compris comme évènement et au postportrait. C’est la pièce de Vince Staples, Lift Me Up, écoutée en boucle dans son atelier, qui a inspiré la réflexion de l’artiste et donné son titre à l’œuvre présentée.
Notice biographique
Maegan Rose Mehler is a Toronto-based artist. Her practice is informed by her interest in the complexities of relationships and the politics of the face. Her work is presented as a constellation of staged encounters exploring affect as an event. Recently, she has been questioning what emotional imagination might mean and the capacity of the face when the eyes-nose-mouth blur together or fall away completely. Mehler received her MFA from the University of Guelph and her BFA from the University of Victoria. Recent projects include the solo exhibitions Brick Wave Suede and Lilacs Too at Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects, Tyler Blue for an Ex Moon at Mi-Yu Gallery, and Falling Face Sunshine Chaser at G Gallery (all in Toronto). She is the recipient of a 2017 Emerging Artist Grant from the Ontario Arts Council and a 2014–2015 SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master’s Scholarship.