Symmetry implicitly recalls the bilateral layout of our bodies, the animate presence of a living subject. In The Ground, Megan Hepburn raises this kind of emergent presence, abstracting her images by simply mirroring them, binding them to a ghostless manifestation. Hepburn subjects her own already abstract paintings to this treatment, as well photos and image/text works. Her paintings read as translations of interiority, abstract renditions of subjective experience, sense, and atmosphere. The text and photo works picture the kinds of social spaces which shape communal production and play, or raise such icons of femininity as Brooke Shields and the Greek goddess, Circe.
Circe was known for her skill with herbs, drugs, and magic; The Ground carries the trace of this hidden knowledge, of the esoteric. It’s multiplicity of reference and form, it’s layering of abstraction and translation is governed by an underlying structural logic, a logic visible only as the teasing remnants of the works’ generative systems.
Bio:
Megan Hepburn was born in Vancouver, Canada. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Joseph Plaskett Award for Painting and a semi finalist in the 2010 RBC Painting Competition. She also works collectively, most recently with Vaca Sagrado del Secreta, and the Montreal Committee for Reading Texts and Objects. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and in Europe.
2011
20 pgs
8.5 x 5.5"
black and white laserprint on grey rag paper
$7
