Exhibit: Annette Lemieux, Unfinished Business
EVENT
February 14-April 1, 2012
Sert Gallery; Main Gallery
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Mass.
Exhibition Hours:
Main Gallery: Mon-Sat: 10:00 am—11:00 pm
Sert Gallery: Tue-Sun: 1:00—5:00 pm
Curated by Lelia Amalfitano
Unfinished Business, a new exhibit by Annette Lemieux, presents a combination of new work with work revisited to reveal the relationship between object, mediated memory, personal experience, and cultural history that informs all of Lemieux’s practice. This exhibition as a whole is the perfect epilogue to the traveling exhibition The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux, the first critical overview of her work from the past 25 years recently on view at Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts and currently at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Though Lemieux’s primary commitment is to the content in her work, her juxtaposition of material and media consistently reveals the potency of the object. In works such as Things to walk away with, Lemieux re-contextualizes simple everyday objects to construct a narrative both personal and universal. In the expanded field they are signposts, simultaneously relics of the past, notations of the present, an index of culture, and suggest a potential future.
Lemieux teaches Mixed Media and Works on Paper at Harvard Summer School.
