Luanne Martineau: FREAKOUT (Temporal Bodies)

Portrait, 2006	Canon Worm, 2006

In her debut solo exhibition at the gallery, Luanne Martineau will show four new pin-felted sculptures, including a life-size figure, and a selection of related drawings.
Luanne Martineau’s densely layered imagery draws on multiple sources from popular and underground imagery such as Little Nemo and R. Crumb, to modernist abstraction. Her sculptures are replete with 20th century art-historical associations as various as the work of Wilhelm de Kooning, Philip Guston and Louise Bourgeois. She combines labour-intensive traditional female hand work with unbridled references to the body and its unpredictable ways, creating a powerful confrontation between the comfortably familiar and the taboo. In her work Martineau engages with a long tradition of social satire in art while exploring an equally provocative dialogue with craft and the legacies of 1960s fine art.
Currently in production, Luanne Martineau’s special edition book FREAKOUT (Temporal Bodies), brings together 8 texts ranging from German surrealist Hannah Hoch (c.1920), Oscar Wilde (1920) and Louise Bourgeois (1998) to George Bataille (1903), with documentary photographs from the University of British Columbia Architecture department as well as illustrations of the artist’s recent work. Published by Flask Press, Victoria, this book will be individually bound with a thick felt cover. Watch for release date fall 2006.

Artists:
Luanne Martineau