What does it mean to look at a painting? This is the question explored by Vickie Vainionpää in her latest body of work, Gaze Paintings, at Olga Korper gallery through this weekend’s cross-Canada Art Hop.
This series of paintings had a fascinating beginning: While visiting museum collections during a residency in London, artist Vickie Vainionpää wore eye-tracking glasses to record her visual movements while looking at paintings by Rubens, Tintoretto, Bronzino, and more.
The journey her eyes made over each painting was mapped as data points in 3D space, which were then used to generate the images of her signature tubular forms. These are then rendered in oil on canvas. (Read more detail here)
“Her softly textured, organic shapes fold and twist on themselves to create biomorphic forms that are non-representational yet familiar,” the gallery says in notes for the exhibition.
“With their cool, fleshy tones and plush texture, a certain exuberance exists in the work, giving way to a sense of techno-optimism that binds the dual process of code and paint.”
Exhibition page, Olga Korper gallery.
Montreal-based Vickie Vainionpää has participated in group shows at The X Museum, Beijing, China and The Margulies Warehouse, Miami, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include Metamorphoses at the historic site of The Museo Belvedere di San Leucio, CE, Italy; Software at The Hole, New York, USA as well as a solo presentation at NADA Miami, USA. She is represented by Olga Korper Gallery.
Her artist page at Olga Korper gallery here.
Her Instagram, here.
Her website, here.
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