KRISTY LUCK & ALAN PRAZNIAK | RIVER BELLY

From November 24th to December 22nd, 2018.

Projet Pangée is pleased to present River Belly by Kristy Luck and Alan Prazniak. In this duo exhibition, both artists reference landscape as a mean of revisiting personal influence and memory, placing these into new imageries to heighten our understandings of them. Such subtle states are seized through the sensorial vibrancy of Luck’s palette and Prazniak’s quiet but uncertain weather conditions, encouraging us to swirl and flow between them.

Built with delicate layers of wax and oil brushstrokes, Kristy Luck’s compositions are suggestive of a strong femininity. At times, flowers, waves and tornadoes burst from the canvas, while at others we catch ourselves gliding through the cool, smooth curves of a cave or womb. Carefully building the surface to emotional colours like fire red, honey yellow, lush green and sapphire blue, Luck’s intimate and private paintings expand into a shared experience of love and attentiveness to the natural world, where emotions remain paramount to the works’ reception.

Equally as intimate, Alan Prazniak’s luminous, fuzzy fields invite us into a constructed world of fantasy. Neither dawn nor dusk, Prazniak’s world is narrated through omnipresent tricksters, who order mountains to spill lava from their river beds and force multiple moons, suns and orbs to appear all at once, wielding their magic for endless possibilities. Not unlike drifting in and out of a dream, the foggy landscapes become a place where the juxtaposition of whimsical natural elements with memories of childhood places makes tangible our most deep-set desires.

Opening on Saturday November 24th, 2018, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.