Word: lemieux
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great players, the New Jersey Devils have forced a Game 7 tonight at the First Union Center (anyone else find it ironic that a Philly home arena abbreviates to the F.U. Center?) after being down 3-1. They can thank the hard work of one man, winger Claude Lemieux...
...Lemieux, visiting artist and lecturer in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department, teaches a course on silk-screening...
...Lemieux: The disadvantage in working now with mixed media would have to be how receptive people are in this country. Europe has a strong history of conceptual art. Here, people often want you to be one thing and not ten other things. Acceptance is an issue, meaning how the critic or viewer affects the critical reception. It's also difficult on pragmatic levels: in my studio, working with the materials, I have to start from level zero...
...Lemieux: In 1991, I did a portrait piece at Mario Diacono, a kind of Boston portrait and one of the first portraits. It was my face superimposed on a kind of cardboard image. It resembled one of those props at Fenway, where you stick your head through a hole and take a picture. On the left panel of this piece, the woman is pushing a pallet of bricks. In my work in 1993, I was working with actual, physical cobblestones. For the past six or seven years of my activity, I've used found images, images that were not mine...
...Lemieux: My work is conceptually oriented, influenced by conceptual art of the '70s and also minimalism. I usually have an idea, then work from that. The piece's form could become a photograph, painting or sculpture. That's why it tends to be different: forms come out of how I handle the media...