Claire Milbrath
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Claire Milbrath's "Study (Skagit Valley)" features vibrant, lush colors with broad horizontal bands of red, pink, and green fields leading to rustic farm buildings set against distant snow-capped mountains. The painting's Naïve style employs simple, bold shapes and a flat perspective, evoking childlike wonder and simplicity. The seemingly serene landscape subtly conveys an emotional and spiritual connection to nature through its vivid and expressive palette. Milbrath's work here nods to the coloristic traditions, merging them with personal themes of devotion and obsession, typical of her artistic narrative. ...
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Claire Milbrath (b.1989, based in Victoria, BC) is a self-taught artist working with painting, sewing, ceramics, and drawing. Adopting an artistic style reminiscent of the Naïve painters, Milbrath incorporates large swaths of lush colour and dense patterning to construct her compositional space, renewing the colouristic tradition with vignettes relating to obsession, emotions, and spiritual devotion.
Pangée (Montréal, QC), established in 2020, is a contemporary art gallery with a critical curatorial approach that embraces diverse expressions of art and materiality and encourages dialogue between practices. Pangée currently represents ten Canadian artists and interweaves international collaborations throughout its programming with emerging and mid-career artists. Pangée operates its gallery space and artist residency in a historic building, overlooking Mont-Royal Park. ...