Anne-Laure Djaballah: PAUSES AND TRANSITIONS

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Anne-Laure Djaballah, "PAUSES AND TRANSITIONS," Invitation

Reception: Saturday, April 29, 7:00pm

PAUSES AND TRANSITIONS features examples of unique and skillfully executed abstract paintings.  While non-representational, these canvases reference the Alberta landscape, pathways and urban alleyways encountered by the artist. These highly considered compositions, intriguing colours and expressive mark-making will engage anyone interested in the possibilities of painting.  Djaballah received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal and a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge.  

Artist Statement

Incidents of paint linger in the working mind of the painter as continuous thrills, as possibilities, like words you may soon use in a sentence, and – in a manner which seems to exist outside of spoken language – as beacons of hope to any human being for whom visuality is the site of questions and answers about existence. ---Mira Schor

While walking here in Lethbridge, paint stays in the back of my mind. How do I respond to this landscape on canvas? How well can that small window express the vast prairie space?

And, as this landscape is lived in, and with, it is never pristine. The residue of everyday living spills out into it – that is also a part of the landscape.

These thoughts get pondered through paint. Starting a painting, unsure of where it may end, the materiality of the paint pushes forward, asserting itself as a presence, enticing and full of possibilities. The colours, shapes, types of brushstrokes lead me down a path that opens up the potential of the canvas. The marks or colours may evoke this memory for me, or that connection for you. These discoveries continue long after the painting is done. 

Oftentimes, these colourful moments are the most inspiring for me.