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Lisa Higby LeFevre
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Crystal Cork Art Quarterly No. 3
Lisa Higby LeFevre: Allusive Pursuit Series, Pastel Paintings
Where: The Crystal Cork Wine Shoppe, 219 W. 1st Street, Dixon, IL
When: February 6, 2009 - May 3, 2009
Artist Reception: Friday, March 13, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
"Although we are accustomed to separate nature and human perception into two realms, they are,
in fact, indivisible... Before it can ever be a repose for the senses, landscape is the work of the
mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock."
~Simon Schama, "Landscape and Memory"
INTERIOR PRAIRESCAPES, SERIES 7: ALLUSIVE PURSUIT
Memory affects our visual experience and our sense of place, but memory is also fluid, alive,
continually evolving and, with that, our history is tempered. These aspects of memory provide the
driving force behind my work - a meditative process, a journey, in which content follows process.
There is a unique emotional power in the first view of any landscape. In my work, I try to capture a
transcendent sensation of our nuanced Midwest setting and forge a sense of place. In this artistic
journey, I seek to uncover an emotional reality by resurrecting all thoughts and sensations
associated with the land. My paintings of the Midwest landscape, therefore, are rural
psycho-geographies that seek to evoke a shared human response.
The Allusive Pursuit series specifically investigates the fluid nature of memory as it mitigates my
experience of painting a Midwest terrain. I employed a process in which the first pastel resourced
a landscape photograph. All subsequent pastels presented the same image but relied solely on
memory. Conventional laws of perspective, color and focus often went challenged as intuition
played a central role in this process. Initially, what I thought would be a duplicate of the previous
painting was, surprisingly, an editing, as memory's fluidity mitigated the process. About midway, I
intentionally changed the size of substrate, after which I consciously allowed elements to change
that had already been evolving. Throughout the process, minor details in one painting became
dominant features in the next. My emotional connection or attention to a particular element in one
painting influenced the next. Memory and emotion were evident influences in the process. In the
end, my own painting-history was tempered.
www.lhlefevre.com
BIO
STATEMENT
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Crystal Cork Art Quarterly No. 3
Lisa Higby LeFevre: Allusive Pursuit Series, Pastel Paintings
Where: The Crystal Cork Wine Shoppe, 219 W. 1st Street, Dixon, IL
When: February 6, 2009 - May 3, 2009
Artist Reception: Friday, March 13, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
"Although we are accustomed to separate nature and human perception into two realms, they are,
in fact, indivisible... Before it can ever be a repose for the senses, landscape is the work of the
mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock."
~Simon Schama, "Landscape and Memory"
INTERIOR PRAIRESCAPES, SERIES 7: ALLUSIVE PURSUIT
Memory affects our visual experience and our sense of place, but memory is also fluid, alive,
continually evolving and, with that, our history is tempered. These aspects of memory provide the
driving force behind my work - a meditative process, a journey, in which content follows process.
There is a unique emotional power in the first view of any landscape. In my work, I try to capture a
transcendent sensation of our nuanced Midwest setting and forge a sense of place. In this artistic
journey, I seek to uncover an emotional reality by resurrecting all thoughts and sensations
associated with the land. My paintings of the Midwest landscape, therefore, are rural
psycho-geographies that seek to evoke a shared human response.
The Allusive Pursuit series specifically investigates the fluid nature of memory as it mitigates my
experience of painting a Midwest terrain. I employed a process in which the first pastel resourced
a landscape photograph. All subsequent pastels presented the same image but relied solely on
memory. Conventional laws of perspective, color and focus often went challenged as intuition
played a central role in this process. Initially, what I thought would be a duplicate of the previous
painting was, surprisingly, an editing, as memory's fluidity mitigated the process. About midway, I
intentionally changed the size of substrate, after which I consciously allowed elements to change
that had already been evolving. Throughout the process, minor details in one painting became
dominant features in the next. My emotional connection or attention to a particular element in one
painting influenced the next. Memory and emotion were evident influences in the process. In the
end, my own painting-history was tempered.
www.lhlefevre.com
BIO
STATEMENT
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