Emily Noelle Lambert “Idée Fixe”
Denny Gallery
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Emily Noelle Lambert makes intuitive, vibrant paintings and sculptures that draw from diverse art historical movements, cultures, and styles. The exhibition will feature an environment of paintings and sculptures in dialogue with each other, exploring dimensional and pictorial space.
Lambert’s paintings encompass referential and non-objective forms of abstraction as well as figuration. The paintings are rich in color and texture and engender loose, non-linear narratives. Often Lambert attaches wooden sculptural appendages to the paintings, allowing the painted images to extend beyond the rectilinear constraints on the stretchers in playful and unexpected ways.
Lambert’s sculptures are essentially intuitive and sensitive responses to her materials, mostly found or discarded wood, foam, steel, and other objects. The objects are often stacked, suggesting totemic forms. She paints the sculptural forms both as a painting surface and as a gestural shorthand for her intervention in the materials. Her most recent sculptural work has developed with the help of her brother, Peter Lambert, a blacksmith. These recent sculptures are made from wood found in a barn in New Hampshire and completed in West Virginia where her brother lives.
The title of the exhibition, Idée Fixe, is a synonym for “fetish,” an object imbued with special power. It is a French phrase defined as a desire, obsession or fixation of the mind, and is a starting point for how Lambert considers this new body of work.
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Schedule
from October 17, 2015 to November 15, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-10-17 from 18:00 to 20:00