Jeanie Riddle Tenor

Jeanie Riddle Tenor

Jeanie RiddleTenor

September 7 to 29, 2012
Vernissage: Thursday September 6 at 6 pm
Artist’s Talk: Friday, September 7 at 7 pm

The McClure Gallery is pleased to open its fall season with a solo exhibition of recent works by Montreal artist Jeanie Riddle. Working with ideas from the everyday or domestic in a striking and fearless way, Riddle makes use of formal painting, plywood, MDF, latex house paint, confetti, and tissue paper. For ‘Tenor’, Riddle presents a series of large-scale paintings in a space designed, transformed and constructed by the artist. The exhibition includes three in-situ sculptures as well as paintings within these confines.

Jeanie Riddle’s paintings and architecture break along planes of parallel lines, both conflating and upending ideas of space and place. The artist writes of her work in alluringly cryptic words: “Possibly, and probably meeting in layers, in color, in cleavage, direction and fractured form. This total architecture is described by the number of directions, sense of space, size of construction and the viewer within this space. The angles between the paintings and architectural form and the degree of perfection of the cleavage are also important to the space. They perform better than random”. The in-situ works in this exhibition reflect a keen and poetic understanding of the interface between two and three-dimensional form. They are spawned in the quotidian where a sense of alterity defines their impact.

Jeanie Riddle lives and works in Montreal where she completed a M.F.A. in Painting from Concordia University in 2005. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and she received a Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2012. She is Director of the Parisian Laundry Gallery of Montreal.