EXHIBITION: UNFINISHED BUSINESS: SELECTED WORK BY ANNETTE LEMIEUX at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Details:
February 14–April 1, 2012
Curated by Lelia Amalfitano
Panel Discussion + Opening Celebration: Thursday, February 16, 6 pm
with Annette Lemieux, curator Lelia Amalfitano, and Susan Stoops,
curator of contemporary art at the Worcester Art Museum
Unfinished Business presents a combination of select prior work, revisited and recontextualized, which forms a direct link with new work to reveal the relationship between object, mediated memory, personal experience and cultural history. The exhibition as a whole is the perfect epilogue to The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux,* the first critical overview of her work from the past twenty-five years on view at Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts (April 9 – October 9, 2011).
As the work in Lemieux’s mid-career survey, this exhibition continues to trace her investigations of memory and meaning. However, here we are presented with an unfiltered personal and poetic connection to the vivid lives of objects. Collectively the works function as a road map to her creative process, a process that incorporates intellectual analyses of social codes with an emphasis on psychological and emotional content and direct engagement with material.
Though Lemieux’s primary commitment is to the content in her work, her juxtaposition of material and media consistently reveals the potency of the object. In works such as Things To Walk Away With, 2011 Lemieux re-contextualizes simple everyday objects. In the expanded field they are simultaneously relics of the past, notations of the present, an index of culture and suggest a potential future. Returning to this central theme of her work Lemieux confronts time, questions what it means to be in the present, and analyzes the layered and transformative capacity of memory—personal and public.
*Organized by Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Guest Curators: Lelia Amalfitano and Judith Hoos Fox. Traveling.
Exhibition Hours: Main Gallery: Mon-Sat: 10:00 am—11:00 pm, Sert Gallery: Tue-Sun: 1:00—5:00 pm