Luanne Martineau

Figure, 2006Untitled, 2006Portrait 1, 2006
Freakout (Temporal Bodies)Freakout (Temporal Bodies)Bespoken, 2008
Freakout (Temporal Bodies)

9.25 x 12.25 x 1.25 inches, 64 pages 100% rag paper, archival ink. 48 colour plates, Edition of 50, made-to-order

Bespoken, 2008

detail: assemblage
hand-sewn paper and thread
6 x 6 x .4 feet

From: LUANNE MARTINEAU: STARSHAKE
Dangler, 2008Dangler, 2008Installation view
Dangler, 2008

detail: Wool and pin-felted wool
109 x 26 x 28"
277 x 66 x 71cm

From: LUANNE MARTINEAU: STARSHAKE
Dangler, 2008

Wool and pin-felted wool
109 x 26 x 28"
277 x 66 x 71cm

From: LUANNE MARTINEAU: STARSHAKE
Installation view

STARSHAKE installation view.
Dimensions variable

From: LUANNE MARTINEAU: STARSHAKE
Bespoken, 2008
Bespoken, 2008

Bonded fibre paper, graphite, paint and thread
52 x 45
132 x 114 cm

From: LUANNE MARTINEAU: STARSHAKE

Luanne Martineau is known her dense layering of imagery and her affinity with popular and underground sources. Her references span from R. Crumb's cartoon characters to Philip Guston and Modernist masters. Martineau engages in a long tradition of merging social satire with contemporary art. Her hybrid felted wool sculptures explore the places in between art genres using labour-intensive traditional female hand work to blur the boundaries between style and ideology as well as high modernist art and craft. Martineau creates powerful confrontations between the attractive and comfortably familiar and the grotesque.
Martineau's work was featured in a solo exhibition at Vancouver's Contemporary Art Gallery in 2004 and was included in the Vancouver Art Gallery's major drawing exhibition in 2003 as well as the 2007 Montreal Biennial. In 2009 her work was included in How Soon is Now at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2010 Martienau's work will be featured in a solo exhibition at Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain.
Martineau's 2007 limited edition artist book FREAKOUT (Temporal Bodies) brings together images of her work with eight texts ranging from Hannah Hoch to Woody Allen. Each book is hand-printed by Flask Press in Victoria and bound in felt by Martineau in an edition of 50 produced individually to order.

Exhibitions
Luanne Martineau: FREAKOUT (Temporal Bodies)
Other Worlds
LUANNE MARTINEAU: STARSHAKE