Artist in Residence Mailey Horner – Artist Talk
Artist in Residence Mailey Horner – Artist Talk
We are excited to welcome Mailey Horner as our Artist in Residence from June 12 – July 10. Join Horner this Thursday, June 19, for an artist talk in the Casa Meeting Room at 7pm to learn more about her practice.
Throughout her residency at Casa, Mailey seeks to expand her current painting practice with a new body of works that incorporate sculptural elements in wood and ceramics, investigating land as a medium and collaborator within artistic creation. While in Alberta, Mailey has been researching the possibilities for reciprocal exchange in terms of mark-making with/ upon the land, investigating earth pigments, soil and microbial action upon paintings, and the physical marks we leave upon the land.
Artist Statement:
My painting practice examines the interplay between abstraction and figuration, reducing the world to its most essential traces, images, and archetypes. I take stylistic inspiration from folk art, and thematic inspiration from the domestic sphere, fables, and the loose quality of memory. I use a loose style of paint handling and items plucked out of the domestic, to be framed in an imaginary, colourized landscape that I come to intuitively. Throughout this process, the paint often establishes its agency when the image becomes through an externalization of my inner most archetypal, cultural, and imaginary figures. Fundamentally, my practice revolves around the questions of how an image can have pictorial agency and how paint can be used to establish narratives and tap into personal and cultural mythologies. Various tensions I explore in my work include those of narrative agency and intuition, human-animal or interspecies relations, and the dichotomy between ‘domestic craft’ and ‘fine art.’
Artist Talk:
Thursday, June 19, 7 – 8 pm
Meeting Room, Casa
Date:June 19th, 2025
Time:7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fee:FREE
Location:Casa - Meeting Room
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