room for painting 07 - Marie Thibeault: when worlds collide, recent paintings

For venue 07 in the room for painting we are pleased to be showing recent canvases by Marie Thibeault, with a selection of the work coming to us directly from her exhibit at the Torrance Museum. Thibeault, formerly of the Bay Area and now based in Los Angeles, is Professor of Art at California St... Read more

For venue 07 in the room for painting we are pleased to be showing recent canvases by Marie Thibeault, with a selection of the work coming to us directly from her exhibit at the Torrance Museum. Thibeault, formerly of the Bay Area and now based in Los Angeles, is Professor of Art at California State University Long Beach and a recipient of multiple grants from that institution. Thiebeault uses source images of natural disasters such as Katrina, often from clippings, as her catalyst to improvise gestural overlays of sophisticated color and thicketed space. Her compositions seem to be held in abeyance at the moment they could either explode or implode. Although her subject matter is ostensibly chaos, her formal coalescence and the harmonics of her color speak to recovery, and an order more generative than deconstructed.