Jacqueline Leigh Huskisson: Absurd Walls
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Alberta Printmakers Gallery and Studio 4025 4 Street SE, PO Box 6821 Station D, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2E7
An artist talk will be given in conjunction with the opening reception, Feb 23 at 7pm - 9pm
Jacqueline Leigh Huskisson considers herself primarily an artist who draws. Everything she does starts with the lines that lift off the page and evolve into video, installation, printmaking, comics, and illustration.
Her art can be a question, a reflection or a joke of the human condition and how we perceive our place in the universe.
With repeated narrative silkscreen images printed on drapes of mulberry paper, Huskisson's imagery is an exploration of failure and lowbrow artwork expressing the redundancy of mundane actions while showing the brilliance of everyday troubles.
Within the exploration of Failure and lowbrow artwork Jacqueline Leigh Huskisson studies repetition. With her interest in comic books, animation and other accessible popular media she explores the use of narrative in a repetitive fashion, to make a single piece. Once repetition is used to the point of redundancy the topic at hand displays its true nature, like the ludicrously of mundane actions, showcasing the brilliance of everyday troubles.
Her work is a reflection of her emotions, thoughts and abstract feelings; whatever she produces, is a product of her own misgivings. Drawing upon graphic designs, toxic colours, graffiti, zines and comics to inspire the imagery, Huskisson to creates an environment that a viewer can physically walk into, an environment that warps the space and their minds. With the optic illusion of the printmaking, the viewer is drawn into the fantasy world, trespassing and becoming a voyeur upon the creature’s lives.