If you live in the Northeast, don’t miss Lucille Marcotte‘s latest show at Galerie Saint-Dizier, in Montreal.

Lucille’s artwork is powerfully idiosyncratic and imbued with sensual and sonar qualities. Her canvases are always depicted with the use of strong black strokes of paint portraying a body, frequently female, on white canvas. The white areas around her figures are always predominant, implying an indefinite space; one which is both a context and simultaneously a vacuum, conjuring concepts of the dreamlike and the ephemeral. Lucille’s figures are painted in an “unfinished” or indefinite manor, leaving sections, and particularly the facial features, to the imagination. These absences cause the viewer to relate to the context and the figure in more emotive ways. One is asked to sense the tension and possibly the sound of the painting, through the limited referential points. Lucille’s artworks are not intended to be complete narratives with figurative cliches, they are a question and a reflection on the reality of human emotion.
(Courtesy of artnet.com.)

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