From Thursday 1st June, Dominique Leoni will be the latest artist to feature their work in the Ryde ARCH Window Gallery.
Dominique was one of the nine women artists that made up Curios art-house-life’s exhibition for last year’s Ventnor Fringe.
She’s returning with ‘Glimmer and Glitch’ for Ryde ARCH Window Gallery – this is new work fuelled by her experience here, the artists she interacted with and the visitors she met during Ventnor Fringe 2022.
Glimmer, Glitch and Chaos
Dominique Leoni is a mixed media artist, predominantly producing works on paper, often combining painting and drawing with collaged elements.
Her work is a meditative exploration of the interrelationships between spontaneous, incidental and considered mark making, with an intention to invoke contemplation in the viewer. Abstract connection, of layers and various elements, is a concept Dominique returns to, often hinting at oscillating, vibratory or directional movement with shifting layers, grids and linework.
Glimmer and Glitch is a series of works which are part of an ongoing broader theme where Dominique constructs compositions using torn paper and tape to create spontaneous, softly floating or falling elements, each with a differing sense of direction and gravity.
The works play with positive and negative space, using interwoven linework to give the impression of a glimmering textile as a connective backdrop for the suspended torn shapes. The diverse colours and metallic finishes in the linework subtly alter the colour and tone of each piece, as the viewing angle changes.
Cosmic Chaos 1, 2 echo the drifting elements seen in the Glimmer and Glitch series. Dominique has painted both works in gouache, contrasting a matt velvet quality with the frenetic application of reflective Florentine gold liquid leaf.
These works embody the solace Dominique feels in a state of organised chaos, creating a balance between the ordered, considered, spontaneous and incidental.
Where and when
Glimmer, Glitch & Chaos by Dominique Leoni can be seen at ARCH Window Gallery, Ryde High Street (1st to 30th June 2023), accessible daily for free.
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