Ruptured Landscapes: Elegy for a Fragile World - An Exhibition of Paintings by Eva McCauley

Ruptured Landscapes: Elegy for a Fragile World
An Exhibition of Paintings by Eva McCauley
Aug. 1st - Aug. 24, 2024
ARTSPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, N.S.
Ruptured Landscapes: Elegy for a Fragile World
August 1 - 24, 2024
ARTSPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
Ruptured Landscapes is a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Nova Scotian artist Eva McCauley, exploring the relationship between people and our fragile environment, a world threatened by systematic disintegration and devastation. Her paintings explore and speak to climate change, particularly on oceans and shorelines: the sea level is rising, waters are warming, storms are intensifying, lives and communities are at risk. Conjured partly from memory, partly from photographs, the figures in the paintings uneasily inhabit places that are explored in the past and present, with a focus on their relationship to bodies of water.
In Ruptured Landscapes colours are used that are deliberately oppositional to mirror the intensity of feeling that comes with living in a time of environmental crisis and societal upheaval. She employs contrasting, jarring colours and strong tonal contrasts to achieve a disquieting effect to depict contemporary threats of environmental destruction but also, within these, threads of hope and determination.
Experimenting with the combination of oil painting and printmaking approaches, McCauley explores a new visual language to create visceral landscapes and seascapes inhabited by figures ruptured by forces beyond their immediate control. She fragments and obscures elements of the figurative imagery to achieve an unsettling effect. There is a loose narrative in the paintings, one that is deliberately unresolved and ambiguous, to convey the feeling of uncertainty and unpredictability, with everything in flux.
Her paintings vacillate between figuration and abstraction; they explore the interplay between the representational and abstract.
The theme of this new body of work, Ruptured Landscapes is particularly relevant right now, because of the acute seriousness of the climate crisis.
McCauley is exploring this theme-our relationship to our endangered environment-in a way that is searching and honest, yet not without hope, discovering and contributing new insights and realizations to the present urgent discourse.
About the Artist
Eva McCauley is known for highly charged, vivid paintings that seamlessly merge abstraction with figuration. Her paintings are enigmatic and evocative psychological takes on the traditional landscape genre.
She is both a painter and printmaker, known for her atmospheric, expressive paintings of sky, water and shifting landscapes that incorporate human figures, exploring the passage of time and the transient and ephemeral nature of the spiritual and physical world. As a figurative artist she is fascinated with the human condition, and the fragility of our existence.
McCauley lives in L’sitkuk/Bear River, Nova Scotia, within the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people.
Many thanks to the trad ensemble NUA (www.trionua.com), for the music.
More info: www.evamccauley.com
The artist acknowledges the financial support of Arts Nova Scotia.

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