Photographic Impressions

 

The artist, Josee Charbonneau, recent photographic experimentation has culminated in a signatory exploration of the potential for abstract colourism, aesthetic beauty and the covergence of both organic and urban compenency.

 

Traditional employment of printmaking techniques have lent the artist a visceral employment of material processes and a visual dexterity which affords her creations with minitiae while her own creative impetus adheres to innate evocations that transpose upon the objects of her focal research in creation.

 

With "Odyssey", we witness an exhibition as much a return as a departure, an aesthetic sojourn which demarcates her emphasis upon the question of beauty amid the mundane tedium of life and predominant conceptualism and theoretical pretexts of contemporary visual practices.

 

In effect, she has initiated an enquiry into the vernacular and non-thinking reflexive discourse of the individual amid a Debordian "Society du Spectacle:, an inverse visual allegorical tale with distinct chapters embodied in singular, unique and visually distinct imagery.

 

Original imagery, reminscient of the lyrical abstraction achieved by Andre Kertesz in the past century, are unadulterated and without alteration, with a latter transfiguration of leitmotif rendered possible as the objective of a painterly experiment remains in her artistic conscience. Vibrant colourism and composition emanate with a visceral abstraction, the tiered processes of Odyssey demarcating that the essential of dynamic tension inherent in visual adventure echo's with the individual frame and context of each successive phase.

 

To paint with a lens appears a paradoxical recourse for an expert of graphic composition and the infinite precision required by the field of print art, yet, bold evocations of the intrinsic beauty of life, the importance of experiment and courage of departure towards an unknown, are well delineated in the large format representations presented, the fruit of a labour wherein the artist crossed a river by feeling the stones at the riverbed.

 

Art Critic Rajath Suri