Lindsay Kirker: This is a Love Story
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Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art 103-421 Cawston Ave, Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia V1Y 6Z1
Lindsay Kirker, "This is a Love Story," 2021
oil on canvas, 48'‘ x 60"
In her new exhibition at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna-based artist Lindsay Kirker responds to internal exploration and external observation. The paintings in This is a Love Story take their cue from the rapid expansion of the urban landscape, surveying a curiosity and fascination with the built environment and a concern for the nature that surrounds us.
In This is a Love Story, the recent UBCO Master of Fine Arts graduate explores the need for stability that manifests itself through an attraction to structure. Considering most of our time is spent in the city, these spaces inform and influence us. A sense of order is established through line, grid, and repetition, assuming pattern and stability. This suggests that life unfolds linearly, that we take the same unconscious routes, among clearly defined paths and that there is an order between our experience and the people we come into contact with. The paintings reflect the human mind and spirit, intuition and behaviour, perhaps more spontaneous encounters that occur outside of these assumed patterns of activity.
“Kirker presents audiences with a body of work that examines the foundations of being. She invites viewers to contemplate the relationship with ourselves and the fabricated structures we surround ourselves with.” Comments Artistic and Administrative Director, Lorna McParland.