Katherine Duclos begins every art work with a shade palette and no plan. Inserting modular LEGO bricks one after the other, the Vancouver-based artist intuitively builds every dense composition, commencing a repetitive course of wherein she introduces paint earlier than rearranging once more.
Duclos’ most up-to-date solo present, aptly titled The sunshine and shade we stock, reinforces the overarching significance of shade inside the artist’s apply. She created her latest assortment throughout an incredible shift as she moved to a brand new residence along with her household. The neurodivergent artist held onto shade as a grounding power, creating connections between the precise hues and lights she would miss in her earlier residence.
A statement from the Vancouver Artwork Gallery reads:
Instances of transition and upheaval are notably troublesome for autistic households, and Katherine’s must order her world turned extra intense as her residence turned extra chaotic and the long run appeared unclear. To raised put together herself for the adjustments, she centered on regulatory work that enabled her to really feel a way of management and order amidst the chaos.
Having disabilities with spatial processing and rotating pictures causes Duclos to run into some obstacles with the diagrams and directions that accompany the normal LEGO equipment. “I by no means loved Lego till my son handed me 4 flat items caught collectively when he was 5 and mentioned, ‘I believed you’d like these colours subsequent to one another.’ That was my mild bulb second,” she says. Made to hold at any orientation, every vibrant amalgamation encourages motion and fluctuation regardless of the stiff, blocky nature of the fabric.
Duclos is creating work in preparation for a forthcoming solo exhibition in January subsequent yr. Preserve tabs on her work through Instagram and the artist’s website.
