Marc Siegner: Layering Light
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SNAP Gallery 10572 115 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5H 3K6
Marc Siegner, "Yaowarat Rd.," 2019
mixed media
SNAP invites members & guests to the opening reception of Layering Light by Marc Siegner, Friday, May 17th from 7-9 pm with an Artist’s Talk Saturday, May 18th, 2 pm in conversation with Robin Smith Peck.
In Layering Light I have assembled a series of portraits that embody qualities of light and colour utilizing reflection and depth of field to construct fictitious environments. Persian miniatures, with their intense colour, texture, form and precarious application of composition and perspective have been a principal source of my inspiration. Invented space, exaggerated colours and contrasting perspectives are the signatures of my approach – presenting a fiction that is both alluring and confounding.
In Layering Light, I contemplate trees, thinking of them as enchanted beings that move slower than us, live longer and provide an essential bridge between nature and our constructed urban environments.
Through the use of lithography and the colour separation process I am able to layer each colour as I build a Cubist-like image. Assembling multiple bands of light and articulating the qualities of that light create a complex multi-band image that re-creates a space where nostalgia merges with the present. The result is an image that is both dreamlike and oddly familiar. - Marc Siegner