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The artist produced this painting through many layers of oil paint, creating an eroded, topographical composition that dissolves the legible boundaries between the figure and the ground. Here, amorphous forms blur into one another as subtle variations in surface color and texture resolve into psychedelic swirls when viewed from a distance. Oceanic grey-blues and green-browns are present, as are bolder shades of burnt umber, lime green, and pink.
For Laurence Pilon, the ocean—and particularly its lowermost benthic zone—is a site of profound enmeshment. Marine life, geology, and human action enmesh in the gradual acidification and warming of the planet’s water systems. As this process has significant consequences for all life on Earth, it is a useful schema for understanding the interconnectedness of humans, animals, plants, and minerals in their various feedback loops, which Pilon poetically describes through his multi-layered abstractions.
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Laurence Pilon builds up many layers of oil paint to create eroded, topographical compositions. For Pilon, the ocean is a site of profound enmeshment, where marine life, geology, and human action all get bound together in the gradual acidification and warming of the planet’s water systems. As this process has significant consequences for all life on Earth, it is a useful schema for understanding the interconnectedness of humans, animals, plants, and minerals.
Laurence Pilon is an artist based in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montreal, QC. They hold an MFA from the University of Guelph in Guelph, ON, Canada (2021) and a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, QC, Canada (2015).
Pilon has mounted solo exhibitions at Sargent’s Daughters in New York City, NY (2023); Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal, QC (2021); Galerie McClure in Montreal, QC 2018); and elsewhere.
Pilon has received the Joseph-Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (University of Guelph), the Betty Goodwin Prize in Studio Arts (Concordia University), and a grant from The Canada Council for the Arts.
The artist produced this painting through many layers of oil paint, creating an eroded, topographical composition that dissolves the legible boundaries between the figure and the ground. Here, amorphous forms blur into one another as subtle variations in surface color and texture resolve into psychedelic swirls when viewed from a distance. Oceanic grey-blues and green-browns are present, as are bolder shades of burnt umber, lime green, and pink.More
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