Monique Mouton: Shaping Paint Practice
Monique Mouton Untitled 2009
Monique Mouton is a young Vancouver-trained, Los Angeles–based artist whose intriguing paintings are gathering merited attention. Following inclusion in the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition “Enacting Abstraction” this past spring and placement in “Working Title,” a painting show curated by abstractionist Elizabeth McIntosh for Diaz Contemporary last year, Mouton is opening her first commercial solo show at Blanket this week. The show, titled “New Shapes,” offers more iterations of the style for which Mouton has become known: thin layers of oil paint on irregular, eccentrically shaped panels, an approach that collides old-school modernism with newer art tendencies to folly, fallacy and failure. Textures and brushstrokes from the panels’ gesso bases are accentuated, emphasizing the human presence and process behind oft-idealized shapes and hues. The techniques in Mouton’s work also underline intersections between sculpture and painting. Though it’s not entirely clear where Mouton might be going with her practice, hers is, increasingly, one to watch—or one to simply experience, depending on your aesthetic inclination. (235 Alexander St, Vancouver BC)
Monique Mouton Untitled 2009
Monique Mouton Untitled 2009
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