MARY BABINEAU - “THE VEGAS PROJECT”
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Xchanges Artists' Gallery and Studios 6E-2333 Government Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8T 4P4
Mary T Babineau, "Strip," 2017
oil on paper, 17″ x 23″
Opening Reception Friday 5th January, 7-9pm
Artist's Talk Saturday 13th January, 1pm
Mary Babineau's “The Vegas Project” draws from personal photographs and sense memory in these oil paintings about visceral response and the flux between pleasure and dystopia in the public spaces of Las Vegas. Glitzy kitsch, monumental architecture, and dazzling interiors contrast with the glare of economic disparity and desperation in this major tourist destination, a large American city in the desert.
Artist's Bio
Mary Babineau has a BA, Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, a Diploma of Fine Art and an Independent Studio Program Certificate from Vancouver Island School of Art. She works from sense memory and personal photos to explore experience of urban environments in drawing and painting. The gestural re-imaginings of public spaces create landscapes of uncertainty through which Babineau reflects on her experience of place and space.