Lot
11
Shadow Recorder (Fragment 3)
Acrylic on canvas, 2021
46 x 41 cm
Estimate
$1 500
This painting is a small-scale variation from the Shadow Recorder series. The stencilled tracings consist of repetition of a single line, shifted to obtain curved streaks. These coloured frequencies are freely inspired by previous studies of shadows generated by the solar cycle. The decomposition of a circular movement of evanescent waves is thus diagrammed, flattened but materialized through the slow, repetitive gesture of the pictorial process.
Biographical note
Karine Fréchette strives for an experience that is both optical and physical in her paintings. Her pictorial gestures, through their slow labour, weave networks of motifs that result in paradoxical allusions to the screen and the volatility of oscillating currents. Her electric palette refers to media representations and scientific diagrams. Fréchette is fascinated with all forms of transmitted waves—solar, analogue, or digital—that modulate sensory experience. The alteration of perception itself becomes the subject.
Fréchette holds a bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts from UQAM and an MFA from Concordia University. Recipient of the Plaskett Award for Painting in 2018 and finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2014 and 2018, she has had solo exhibitions at Galerie René Blouin, Art mûr Berlin, the McClure Gallery, and Galerie B-312. In 2022, her works were presented in the exhibition Les Illusions sont réelles at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. She is currently attending a residency at the Fonderie Darling in Montréal. Her work is in the collection of the MNBAQ.