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September
14, 2004
PRESS RELEASE
ANNETTE
LEMIEUX
'Vehicles
for Elevation'
The McKee Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Annette
Lemieux, opening Friday, October 15, 6:00-8:00pm
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Random
Acts 2004
oil on canvas
33 x 180 in
84 x 457 cm |
Annette Lemieux
is an artist of international reputation who now lives in Boston. She holds
a place of prominence in the U.S. and abroad, regularly exhibiting
in galleries in New York, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Japan. Her work is in
major museum collections in the U.S. and in Europe, including the Museum
of Contemporary
Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Queensland Art Gallery, Australia,
among others. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,
a New York Fellowship for Painting, and the Mies van der Rohe Stipendium from
the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Germany. Ms. Lemieux is currently a Professor at
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lemieux’s commitment to content over material motivates her work, using
a range of means — painting, sculpture, photography, printing — to
convey the theme of her exhibitions.
The title of the current exhibition, “Vehicles for Elevation," refers
to physical, spiritual and metaphorical ways toward elevation, such as soap
boxes, platform shoes, circus platforms, a 15 foot painting of an inspirational
saying
Lemieux saw on a bumper sticker, Commit Random Kindness & Senseless
Acts of Beauty! There are several other objects, paintings and prints
in the exhibition, which continues through Saturday, November 20.
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The Artist’s studio, May 2004
Boston, Massachusetts |
Circus
Equipment 2004
milk paint on wood
small
object: 8 1/8 x 15 x 15 inches
medium object: 16 1/8 x 30 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches
large object: 24 1/8 x 42 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches |
Platforms 2004
cork and glue
30 x 4 x 11 in
76 x 10 x 28 cm, each |
For
more information and photographs, please contact Kendra McLaughlin at the
gallery, telephone:
212-688-5951, or email: kendra@mckeegallery.com.
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