Painter Laurie Papou joins Tuesday Night Talks with Audain Art Museum, January 12
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Audain Art Museum presents Laurie Papou as part of Tuesday Night Talks on January 12 at 8 pm via Zoom; pregistration required
Vancouver painter Laurie Papou is the featured artist as Whistler’s Audain Art Gallery continues the second season of its popular online Tuesday Night Talks for 2021.
Hosted by the museum’s director and chief curator,Dr. Curtis Collins, the talks allow viewers to learn about key works in the Audain’s permanent collection directly from the artists who made them. Participants need to register for the live Zoom discussion, and can submit advance questions as part of the interactive format.
Papou has made her name large-scale paintings of nude human figures in natural settings.
She will be discussing a 2000 oil-on-wood panel She saw her fallen clothes as a charity, an homage to the missing trees that was part of the “Vanity Suite” installation of works. Those pieces allude to the loss of coastal forests, but also present a defiant female image in the face of and challenge the male gaze.
Papou, whose art is featured in public and private collections across Canada, has turned to simple geometric forms in evoking the complex relationships between humanity and nature. In 2015’s “Perfect Geometry” she painted large-scale cross-sections of trees felled in Stanley Park by a 2006 windstorm, alongside the enlarged irises of the artist and her family.
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