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Elizabeth Lemaire
I began my artistic endeavors at the age of 7. My mother, thankfully, forgave me for using a brown crayon to draw ivy on the 3rd floor stairwell of my childhood home.
Later, I turned to oil painting and watercolor paintings. And then, to sculpture. Finding neither fully gratifying, I found myself drawn to multimedia creations: Ink, collage, fabric, and acrylic paints. The combination of traditional painting and sculptural aspects spoke to me.
I think of my work as unfinished inventories, of fragments of items long tossed aside that some might think insignificant or meaningless: thread, photographs, and paintings. I look for the strange in the mundane and beauty in the seemingly “contrived” (i.e. fashion magazines). I meld images of past eras with those of contemporary culture. I intend to prompt the viewer to question his/her automatic assumptions and see his/her subjective truth in the works. I prefer some pieces to be jarring without being overly disorienting. Yet, design and symmetry are still key to my work.
