Maggee Day
Online Viewing Room
Painting The View from My Doorstep
September 15th - October 15th
Headline Gallery is pleased to present the work of Maggee Day within our online viewing room program. Painting The View from My Doorstep exhibits a series of oil and watercolour works that depict the many variations of colour, light, and texture one can see in the space in front of them.
The doorstep is the location where Day's exploration begins. The view is pulled apart into abstracted colours and shapes while retaining some resemblance of three-dimensional space and elements within. By selecting this familiar location as the site of her study, the artist explores sensations and feelings through a lens of objectivity, embracing the mundane and everyday.
The artist makes a conscious effort to change her order of procedures and materials in an effort to highlight and celebrate moments of choice as a painter. Day's representational work captures visual information in photographs, digital sketches, and plein air painting, to translate a perceived reality - this process of translation reveals endless opportunities for Day as she layers images and oils wet-on-wet, rotates canvases, and adds texture to work. Day’s embrace of accidental movement opens up a margin of error between what the artist intends to do in contrast to the realities of art making. The application of paint follows Day's physical movement and is influenced by her emotional state.
The intimate size of Day’s watercolour works in contrast to her large scale oil pieces make for a dynamic show. Audiences are invited to enjoy Day’s work and cultivate a greater appreciation for their daily environments.
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Maggee Day B. 1993, London ON, Canada
Maggee Day is a visual artist working predominantly in the medium of oil paint. The artist studied at OCAD University in Toronto, ON where she received her BFA (2016), and completed her MFA at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC (2020). Day’s work challenges traditional conventions of representational painting by exploring new ways to utilize tools in our contemporary painting world. She combines traditional painting techniques, rendering approaches from the digital realm, and loose vandalizing brushstrokes to create complex paintings that oscillate between illusionism and autonomous abstraction. Day has exhibited across Canada and was awarded the 2018 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in painting. Day lives and works in Vancouver, on the unceded land of the Coast Salish peoples.