Nadine Beauharnois
These are humble objects. They sag and bend; some may appear
to be injured or to have pieces missing. Bodylike appendages
tentatively reach or suggestively thrust. Each of these objects
can be seen as being in a state of movement or transformation,
fluctuating between painting and sculpture, or stasis and action,
or decay and growth. Often, a sculpture will begin as my response
to a memory associated with a visual stimulus: a richly patterned
textile or a jagged cliff plastered with seagrass. The act of seeing
is a point of departure from which I examine gesture and texture
as vehicles for emotion. Consider this work a makeshift cast
of characters haltingly lurching along, seeking humor in the
awkward, and at times painful, nature of human experience.