Past Exhibition

Art on Demand 1.5

Artists Julia Soderholm & Lindsay Schroeder and Curated by Anna Williams
Dec 03, 2015
to
Jan 03, 2016
EXHIBITION

We all navigate seemingly interminable social interactions on a daily basis, some unacknowledged, some ostensibly important. They can be turbulent, private, banal, frustrating and passionate. They can affect our individual selves, our community, or in some rare cases our world. In Art on Demand 1:5 Julia Soderholm and Lindsay Schroeder address these exchanges in their use of varying mark-making techniques.

Lindsay’s delicate, sketch-like, to some extent, ghostly works, express the layers of what is seen and what is felt. Her partial, almost transient human figures in White Lights and Bathing Suits seem familiar with their juxtaposition of discomforting jagged edges and relief-filled levity and bareness. Perhaps this connotes a painful memory that is slowly fading. The dualism present in the use of these airy yet sharp techniques speaks to the relentless rhythm of life. In contrast to Lindsay’s work, Julia’s Triptych is clearly representational, picturing a man and two women in bright primary colours. Her choice of composition, two small canvases flanking one large canvas, reflects the social norms of male dominated society. The female figures’ cropped heads (purposefully removing the brain area) are significant in their stark contrast to the male figure who is represented face-on from the neck up. Julia’s Triptych is familiar while still evocative and emotional to all who are aware of gender imbalance in our culture.

Lindsay and Julia’s expressive mark-making respectively engages viewers through its emotional relatability. In this way, these two artists lay the groundwork for continued dialogue around the complexity of human interaction.

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