Lot
218
Muddle
Technique mixte sur toile déchirée, 2020
25.4 x 25.4 cm
Muddle is a mixed media painting with rich texture and a soft color pallet. Before priming the surface of this canvas, sections of the canvas material were seam-ripped, meaning threads were horizontally and vertically plucked away to reveal textures within the surface.
Next, the seam-ripped areas were backed by patches to create depth, and the painting process took inspiration from the world outside my studio window, as I stayed inside self-isolating and watching the world outside turn from Winter to Spring, to Summer.
Biographical note
Alexis Bulman is an interdisciplinary artist who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Bulman creates sculptures, installation art and paintings which play with concepts of construction/ deconstruction, time, and the mending of fragile states. Bulman maintains a full-time studio practice based in Montreal and has exhibited most notably with The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown, PEI), The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, ON) and the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland, UK).