Marcia Wood Gallery is delighted to present fifteen exciting new paintings by Kim Ouellette in an exhibition entitled Closely Drawn Lines. Kim Ouellette’s new paintings of sumi ink and acrylic on canvas are thrilling compositions of dizzying patterns, shapes, textures and color. Citing an affinity with the creative process of jazz, Ouellette emphasizes improvisation through a formal language.
The space created on the canvas is both meditative and unresolved––something to which she can react, improvise with. Experimenting with different brushes and hand pressure without planning or overt intentionality Ouellette creates compositions that are characterized by complex harmony and syncopated rhythms. The artist states “Closely drawn lines also refers to narrow limitations, a tidiness. Though the draftsmanship of my lines is at times obsessive, my work wants to challenge these impulses. I want the viewer to have a moment of surprise and delight from these works: like finding something unusual in nature, not expected and moving.”
Kim Ouellette was born in Winnipeg, Canada and has lived in Atlanta since 2004. Her work has been collected and exhibited in galleries and institutions in Canada, Scotland and the U.S. since 1985. Most recently she was included in Gathered V 2022 and Gathered IV 2019 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
Kim Ouellette, Eye Twitch, 2024, sumi ink, acrylic on raw canvas, 60 x 52 inches
