Luanne Martineau
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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
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Dangler, 2008 detail: Wool and pin-felted wool
| Dangler, 2008 Wool and pin-felted wool
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Bespoken, 2008 Bonded fibre paper, graphite, paint and thread
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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