Yvonne DuBourdieu & Agata Garbowska - Impermanence of Things Remembered
We are pleased to announce that Yvonne DuBourdieu and Agata Garbowska will be closing the year off as featured artists of The Carrot Gallery. The Opening Reception will be on November 14th from 7 - 9 PM. Pop in for light refreshments and to meet the artists!
Impermanence of Things Remembered is a dual exhibition featuring landscape paintings that explore ideas of imperfection and impermanence.
Yvonne DuBourdieu, On This Day Clearly Seen, 36” x 48”, Oil on canvas
About the Artists
Yvonne DuBourdieu has been a documentary filmmaker for most of her life, but now splits her time behind the camera and in the studio. DuBourdieu is an emerging contemporary expressionist painter working mostly in oil. She blends marks of realism, impressionism and abstraction to the subjects that populate her works: landscapes, birds, animals and humans. Always interested in things ‘other,’ she is continually exploring a sense of place and themes of belonging, often embracing the ‘outsider’ in an unexpected world of illusory spaces or imagined realms.
Each work in DuBourdieu’s collection invokes a memory of place, set in landscapes of invention, infused with an energy that comes with reliving or reimagining a moment through memory. These recollections have been roused and pieced together through looking back at photographs from her past and using the figurative imagery as source material for the paintings. The process of looking back can spark a flood of emotions that set off a chain reaction, unleashing seemingly disparate thoughts and feeding into one another till the connective emotions drift in and out of the imperfect, impermanence of things remembered.
To learn more about DuBourdieu’s work, visit https://www.yvonnedubourdieu.ca/
Agata Garbowska, These Fragments I have Shored Against My Ruins II, 24” x 36”, Oil on board, vinyl, and plexiglass
Agata Garbowska is a painter, printmaker and frequent lurker on the Edmonton arts scene. Her most recent body of work is an exploration of spaces in flux. These spaces are not inhabited, but suggest human presence with select objects and remnants. Panel and plexiglass, materials often used in the construction of everyday space, are combined with painting, collage, and sculpture, to construct pieces that echo with human presence. These pieces are informed by our ongoing ecological disaster—an attempt to reckon with the catastrophic consequences of our comfortable everyday domesticity.
To learn more about Garbowska’s work, visit https://agatagarbowska.weebly.com/
