Joani Tremblay

Stretched across a canvas and bursting with color, Joani Tremblay’s paintings explore the vastness of North American landscapes where “Some places have the power to move one deeply,” as she notes.

Tremblay refuses to normatively rank [her] influences, such that the paintings seem like phenomena that have naturally evolved. This quality, not easy to achieve, makes Tremblay’s paintings genuinely new and her show subtly provocative.

Tremblay is a generous artist, and the fruits of her painterly harvest are on display, lifting spirits through their clarity and luminosity.

"I use plants often as shapes or kind of a shorthand to introduce a form, a color or to construct space in the painting, bringing different grounds quickly like Japanese Ukiyo-e's flat perspective..."