Mary Laucks returns to the ArtSpring lobby with her exhibition, Depth Perception. Mary brings an experimentalist’s perspective to her painting process from the years she worked as a research scientist. Since the Renaissance, painters have used size and contrast (small, low contrast areas are read as more distant) to imitate depth on a flat surface. In […]
Jungle: Tangling with Complexity is the name of Mary Laucks’ latest exhibit of abstract and non-representational paintings in the ArtSpring lobby. Laucks uses acrylic paint and media combined with scraping and gouging to create complex surfaces on a variety of supports. She creates visual complexity by layering contrasting, and sometimes discordant, colours and whimsically marking each […]
Optical Disruptions is an exhibit of Mary Laucks' latest paintings in the ArtSpring lobby during the month of October. The paintings are colourful and non-representational. Some of the paintings create the illusion of three-dimensionality with layered hard-edge shapes, other create depth with texture and whimsical small marks. The paintings are all responses to the question: […]
Rosetta Open Monday to Friday 9:00am - 5:oopm and during performances. Several pieces in Mary Laucks’ show of new work in the ArtSpring lobby have been made using a new technique that makes the paintings appear ceramic. A series of highly textured figurative paintings textured abstract paintings, and a large op-art piece is also included in […]
Lobby exhibit open Monday to Friday 9:30am – 4:30pm, and during performances. These new works by Mary Laucks bring together different strands of her latest explorations in abstraction. In a series of smaller paintings and two large paintings, she returns again to the abstraction of a human figure in motion. Another strand of this work […]
Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10am-1pm, October 5-28, and before evening concerts. New abstract works on paper from 2020 and 2021 by Mary Laucks. The paintings in this exhibit are the results of a painting process I have been developing over the last few years. I became interested in how gestural, partly random marks laid down (mostly with palette […]