AIH Studios is excited to begin a new online, social media focused project: Artists You Need To Know About. We’ll be sharing images and information about different and diverse artists, and some of their lovely and engaging images.
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Con Brio (1&2), diptych, 2008
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Con Brio, diptych, 2008, right panel
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Con Brio, diptych, 2008, left panel
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Night Studio #15, 2008
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Night Studio #18, 2008
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Night Studio #14 - #17, 2009
Adèle Duck was born in Windsor, Ontario, where she maintains a studio and was one of the defining instructors at the University of Windsor School of Visual Arts. Her biography, from her 2010 solo show at the Art Gallery of Windsor offers more insight: “Adèle Duck’s practice is informed by her mastery of diverse media and processes including printmaking, drawing and painting, as well as the conventions of both abstract and figurative art. Each work is a fascinating combination: of marks both painterly and direct; flowing washes and glazes layered over defined shapes; and deep fields of saturated colour shot through by sharp, kinetic black and white stripes. Translucent “skins” of pigment recede, offering indefinite glimpses of the body. All these elements converge to create a sensual effect that is magnified in Duck’s recent large-scale canvases. Neither predetermined nor wholly intuitive, her works play out a wanderlust that is hard to categorize and best to just experience.
Duck’s compositions are pure, unfiltered communications, inviting a sort of play between the work and viewer. The evident effort and sheer amount of visual information in her works provoke appreciation of her ability, and invites individual interpretation of symbolic elements. The complexity of Duck’s imagery never offers final or obvious readings.”
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Series '16 (1), 2016
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Series '16 (2), 2016
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Sillhouette, 2003
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Ab Intra, 2002
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Seated Figure, 2000
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Femme II, 2002
Many more images of Adèle Duck’s art, which melds the figure and form (even in the purely abstract works, a sense of the physicality of mark making is very bodily) can be enjoyed here (the CCCA Archive is a wonderful space to visit, for Canadian artists). Her extensive biography and exhibition record can be seen here.