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ANNE LABoVitZ

Lives and works in Duluth MN USA
www.labovitz.com

The natural environment of the upper Midwest, specifically Minnesota boasts many state and national parks including the Boundary water
and the north shore of Lake Superior inspires this series of paintings. Canoe Area. Over the years, the landscape throughout the state has
Densely populated with majestic trees and robust plants, the area been altered from both man-made and natural blights. These paintings
are a celebration of the intense and varied beauty of the Upper Midwest
landscape and a reminder of the fragility of the eco-system. Each pain-
ting is a snapshot of a moment in time of the tree or plant. Created as a
documentation of the landscape in the present, they are immortalized
in the ever changing natural scenery. Marks are made using tree parts
such as leaves and sprigs as paintbrushes. Exact replicas of the leaves
emerge in these paintings, suspended throughout layers of thinly tinted
polymer emulsion. They exist frozen in time yet the cumulative presence
of their imagery appears dynamic. Colors and shapes evolve, creating
movement and the depiction of the miraculous change of seasons.
Many of the paintings have over 80 coats of the emulsion to achieve
the luminous quality of captured light and provide contrast and intense
depth, offering a pathway for the eye to travel. The layers along with
the breadth of hues utilized allow the viewer to feel as if gazing upon
living, growing plant life.
oDE To bLUE spRUCE, 2011 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS 72X48 IN. | 182.5X121.5 CM. 

 WILD INDIgo, 2011 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS 36X48 IN. | 91X121 CM.
 RhoDoDENDRoN, 2011 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS 36X48 IN. | 91X121 CM.
 sAgE-II, 2011 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS 36X48 IN. | 91X121 CM.

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