Robert Marchessault Exhibition to Open in Chelsea, NY
Trees! Recent Paintings by Robert Marchessault are works based on an active response to the artist's sense of wonder at being in the world. Using a simple landscape format provides a surface for reflection while contemplating his experiences based in nature. Since the late 1970s his works have gone through a range of stylistic treatments with a current focus on space, distance, atmosphere, light, energy and textures - presented on a two dimensional surface using paint. He composes and paints images that resonate between principle subjects and surrounding spaces. Marchessault's landscape paintings are composed from memories of an experience. He uses memory as a filter to distil an image for a painting, focusing in on the earthly yet transcendent essence of his subject matter.
"When a painting is complete it must reflect an emotional sensation that calls to mind some aspect of my remembered perceptions." -Robert Marchessault
This is Robert Marchessault's first solo exhibition with Littlejohn Contemporary. He received a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal in 1978 and an MFA from University of Toronto in 1997. He has had over 65 solo exhibitions since 1978 and is based in Montreal, Canada.
