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Copyright the artist | | | Milroy, Lisa (1959 - ) Anglo-Canadian
Lightbulbs, 1992
Oil on canvas; 193 x 249 cm 90's
UID 102-383
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Biography
Anglo-Canadian painter born em Vancouver. After a period as a student at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (1977-8), she settled in London and studied art at St. Martin's School of Art (1978-9) and Goldsmiths' College, London. At the latter her teachers included Michael Craig-Martin and Tony Carter. Her first solo exhibition, in 1984, was of small still-life paintings depicting common objects, either singly or in sets. These were technically remarkable works drawing on the language of Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Her subsequent series of paintings of objects in groups (lightbulbs, rows, clusters, layers or grids) borrowed the language of hardware catalogues, shop display windows and formal arrangements in art and photography. Sometimes her arrangements of objects was influenced by their functional identity, so that, for example, wheels speed forward at an unstoppable visual pace. (Tyres, 1987; London, Saatchi Collection).
Exhibitions
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
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