Curated by Andi Campognone

An evocative exhibition featuring the work of 21 California-based women artists whose practices are rooted in mastery of materials, symbolism, visual language and emotional resonance.

FEATURED ARTISTS

ANDREA BERSAGLIERI   KIMBERLY BROOKS   E.TYLER BURTON   REBECCA CAMPBELL   VICTORIA CASSINOVA   BARBARA KOLO   ELLEN FRIEDLANDER   ANNIE MARINI-GENZON   CHRISTINA MCPHEE   NAIDA OSLINE   CAROL PAQUET    JOY RAY   LEZLEY SAAR   DEBRA SCACCO   HEIDI SCHWEGLER   DIANE SILVER   JANE SZABO   MARIE THIBEAULT   SUSAN FELDMAN-TUCKER   NICOLA VRUWINK   LIBERTY WORTH

OPEN STUDIO Tuesday, June 17, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Two Coats of Paint will be hosting LA artist Marie Thibeault for her second residency. Marie has spent years immersed in the world of color and geometry, vividly translating the rigid language of architecture, the logic of technical data, and the unpredictable realm of human emotion onto the canvas. She explores the intersection of science and imagination in visual stories of environmental instability that incorporate references to scientific diagrams, predictive models, cartographic references, geological graphics, weather charts, and photographs. Although she employs abstraction to clear and substantial effect, she considers herself primarily a landscape painter and counts among her strongest influences Paul Cezanne, drawing especially on the dynamic horizontal planes of his work.

Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present our summer invitational, California Gold, an exhibition that celebrates Californian history, iconography, and culture. The exhibition will be on view from June 20 through July 25, 2024. The gallery will host a reception for the artists on Thursday, June 20, from 5 to 7 pm.

California Gold invites artists with ties to California to engage with the Golden State, expressing a diverse set of viewpoints and relationships. From the Gold Rush to Hollywood opulence to tech booms and busts, California Gold speaks to the state’s status as a cultural center for the United States and beyond, with its rich landscapes entrenched in influential history. The show pays special homage to the contemporary renaissance of San Francisco’s post-pandemic art scene, celebrating the city as a site of artistic optimism and renewal.  

Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present Polyphonic, a group exhibition of recent works by Minku Kim, Nicole Mueller, and Marie Thibeault. The show will be on view from May 2 through June 13, 2024. The gallery will host a reception for the artists on Thursday, May 2, from 5 to 7 PM.

Taken from the Greek, polyphony means “many sounds,” used in musicology to describe music in which two or more distinct melodies are performed synchronously. Seizing this choral term for the visual arts, Polyphonicunites three contemporary abstract artists—Minku Kim, Nicole Mueller, and Marie Thibeault—to showcase the simultaneously disparate and intersecting dialogues put forth by abstract art, where arrangements of geometry and gesture speak to, and collide at, unique intervals of visual form and discursive intention. The exhibition examines each artists’ work individually and as parts of a orchestral whole, encouraging spectators to link and consider their dynamic relations, paradoxes, and reciprocities. Their concerns are both formal and social: Nicole Mueller’s paintings explore color through prismatic blooms and bursts, placed alongside the delicate stability of Minku Kim’s Sarang series. Meanwhile, Thibeault’s works investigate the tolls of climate change through effusive detonations of color and texture. Together, their works fuse in an astonishing entanglement of beauty, discord, and exegesis.

Panel Discussion: Saturday, March 30th, 4:30-5:45pm
Artists: Sharon Barnes, Barbara Friedman, Zachary Keeting, Marie Thibeault. Moderated by Max Presneill

As concerns and expectations of AI begin to dominate the narrative in our increasingly technologically dependent society some artists reply with the personal mark, risk taking, chance, the unknown endpoint, the illogical, the mystery…to produce a reflection of a living, very human, experience

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Nick Aguayo, Sharon Barnes, Michael Bauer, Fatemeh Burnes, Galen Cheney, Mark Dutcher, Barbara Friedman, John Goetz, Zachary Keeting, Robert Kingston, Christopher Kuhn, Annie Lapin, Michael Mancari, Ali Smith, Vian Sora, Marie Thibeault, Liliane Tomasko, Chris Trueman, Suzanne Unrein, Audrey Tulmiero Welch.

Curated by Marie Thibeault and Max Presneill.

RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK

February 15 at 6pm | Artist Talk at 6:30pm

Transient Presence is a survey of Marie Thibeault’s recent work explores the effects of environmental strain on the landscape. This special exhibition juxtaposes her large-scale paintings in the main gallery with a series of mixed media drawings in the back gallery, inviting the viewer to experience her process and the unique interrelationships of the two mediums.

Stanislaus State University Art Gallery

209.664.6948 | art_gallery@csustan.edu

Paintings & Sculpture by Five California Artists: Jerrold Burchman, Elizabeth Chandler, Marie Thibeault, Holly Wong, Jack Zajac.

10% of exhibition sales will be donated to Non-profit, CoolxDad, through the end of year. Please bring an unwrapped toy for their Color Box gift drive initiative!

Festive cocktails will be generously provided by Houston ­founded, zero-proof spirits company, CUTABOVE.

As an ongoing celebration of ocean stewardship, AltaSea’s “ Blue Hour” art exhibit–curated by Kim Abeles–will be open to the public free of charge until October 28th. The exhibit features art by over twenty artists–both local and international–installed throughout the Berth 57 warehouse on the AltaSea campus. Many of the featured artists incorporate environmentalism or other forms of advocacy in their art, and the Blue Hour exhibit includes paintings, ceramics, videos, sound art, photography, glass, and large-scale installation pieces.

The exhibit is open every day except Sundays from now until October 28th. Opening hours are noon to 4 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. The exhibit’s closing reception will be held on Saturday the 28th starting at 2 p.m. 

Axis Gallery is pleased to present Desire Paths, a two-person exhibition of contemporary paintings by Marie Thibeault & Patrick Brien, curated by Mirabel Wigon. These works examine abstracted notions of the landscape in response to the artists’ regions and lived experiences, both seen and unseen.

Desire Paths features a series of works which is quintessentially Californian, as they respond to the tradition of painting regionally. The works in question reject notions that abstraction is purely the realm of the non-objective. Visual cues of intersecting signs, both iconographic and material, can speak to the longing and search for ways to create meaning and see our world anew. With playful abandon each artist strives to harness the languages of painting to create a new pathway into the unknown.

Abstract art thrives in Los Angeles - whether minimal, geometric, or material; there is always someone making abstractions. Abstract Los Angeles: Four Generations attempts to document a line of inheritance passing from parent to child, teacher to students, older to younger.

Assembled by three observers and participants of the Los Angeles art scene: Alain Rogier, Laddie John Dill, and Katie Kirk; Generations invites viewers to explore the continued dialog between artists over a period that spans roughly 80 years.

Liv Aanrud Lisa Adams Nick Aguayo Peter Alexander Charles Arnoldi Billy Al Bengston Lisa Bowman Hans Burkhardt Fatemeh Burnes Daniela Campins Andres Cortes Ariel Dill Laddie John Dill Tomory Dodge Jill Gefen Yvette Gellis Rema Ghuloum Iva Gueorguieva Christine Garam Han Lynn Hanson Nasim Hantehzadeh Fiona Hilton Nick Hunt Forrest Kirk Katie Kirk Sandra Lauterbach Charity Malin Constance Mallinson Jacob Melchi Christina Mesiti Aryana Minai Andy Moses Ed Moses Jorge Mujica Hagop Najarian Margaret Nielsen Claudia Parducci Alicia Piller Rebecca Rich John Robertson Steven Roden Alain Rogier Sharon Ryan Hideo Sakata Christian Sampson Stephanie Sherwood Pamela Smith Hudson Marie Thibeault Ann Thornycroft Gagik Vardanyan Cheyann Washington Todd Williamson

As colors, shapes, and forms appear in flux, the illusion of space persists throughout the lyrical work of Marie Thibeault. Organized by the Long Beach Museum of Art, Conveyance: Marie Thibeault debuts the artist’s newly commissioned large-scale oil paintings. Living and working in Southern California, Thibeault is constantly informed by the changing landscapes and the environment surrounding her. Visual elements observed in the natural world are interpreted onto the canvas, intrinsically transforming the exterior into a metaphorical landscape. Accompanied by mixed-media works on paper, the exhibition poetically reflects on the harbors of San Pedro and Long Beach, providing viewers a meditative space for contemplation of oneself within the natural world.

Launch LA is proud to present By Water By Fire, a new exhibition of work by California artist Marie Thibeault. Thibeault examines the power of natural forces pitted against the vulnerability of architectural structures. In this ongoing conflict between man and nature, both our natural and built environments exist under the strain of environmental collapse.

Within this group of paintings, Thibeault explores the consuming qualities of fire and water, both increasingly destructive forces affecting our precarious ecosystems. Although fragmentary, such appropriated imagery expresses ongoing environmental events such as floods and wildfires. As a reference to the industrial landscape surrounding the ports of Los Angeles, the inclusion of these locations impacted by trauma or extreme transformation express themes of flux, change and environmental instability. Color is both symbolic and associative and clearly the most expressive element in the work. The paintings are the result of a sustained contest between structural references and their exposure to intense color fields, that creates both a linearity and an atmospheric presence in the work.

Ultimately, Thibeault arrives at a sense of balance and stasis, in order to allow the viewer a space in which to hold and to contemplate the intense changes taking place in the environment, and in particular, within this place in this moment in history.

Curator James Ellsberry says “Color is not only a quantifiable measurement of light; it is also something we feel and  react to subjectively. Viewed differently by every person, it evokes raw emotion, and has cultural significance as well as practical application in all societies. In post WWII America, the boundaries of color broadened, from New York to the West Coast. Abstract Expressionism, the Bay Area Figurative Movement, and California Hard Edge Painting all saw color used in expressive ways. Color Vision pays homage to these movements. 

It features contemporary artists who use theory and personal sensibilities to express, celebrate, and help us better understand the language of color.” The artists included in the show are Caesar Alzate, Jr., Adela Andea, Brittney Diamond, Tom Dowling, Julie Easton, Connie DK Lane, William Lane, David Michael Lee, Joe Lloyd, Cynthia Lujan, Victoria MacMillan, Bret Price, Adam Sabolick, Christina Shurts, Katie Stubblefield, Maggie Tenneson, Marie Thibeault, Andrea Welton, HK Zamani, and Victor Hugo Zayas.

Curated by Constance Mallinson. Five Los Angeles -based female painters: Merion Estes, Yvette Gellis , Virginia Katz, Constance Mallinson, and Marie Thibeault upend traditional ideas of the sublime- a theme historically used by male painters to represent the domination of man’s reason over nature and “the other”- with new feminist and environmentalist perspectives.

Their large-scale paintings encourage viewers to consider the environment and humanity’s impact on it, as well as the confining categorizations that have limited and defined genders, races, and class structures throughout history.

We are opening the art season 2017 with a solo show by the internationally established artist Marie Thibeault from Los Angeles / USA, who will be showing her works in Germany for the first time. Her work captivates with vibrant color worlds that impressively highlight light, space and nature.