Lee L'Clerc


Possessing a Ph.D. in Spanish American Literature and Art History from the University of Toronto, L’Clerc states:  I have always been interested in story telling, and in the correspondence between words and images – that’s what I often try to convey through my imagery.

Yet, what’s most exciting to me is the actual process of painting and the tactile dimension that I see growing out of an idea on a flat surface that gets to be painted and re-painted as many times and as far as it can go.

The writing on the paintings, L’Clerc states, comes from various texts, “yet I set out to deliberately make any possible reading of my writing impossible so that the letters would become images in their own right.  The paintings are to be seen as an allegory of the difficulties of communication, yet paintings in which the word is a form privileged over narrative.”

Again, discussing architecture, he maintains that “these ‘basilicas’ expand on the concept of architectural figures not in the sense of representation, but as images referring only to themselves.  These aren’t images of actual buildings, but images that are related to a narrative of landmarks.  These are images of architectural presence in relation to structure and form as part of a long tradition of humanist thought appearing throughout history.” 
                
      
   



                   
     












                              
                                                                       
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