NEWSLETTER
January 22 through February 22, 2025
Artist’s Reception at The Courthouse Gallery, Saturday, January 25th 4:00 - 6:00 PM
SUNDAY ARTS Gallery Tour and Art-Making for all ages, Sunday, January 26th 1:00 to 4:00 PM
Lake George, N.Y. - The Eye of the River is artist Lola Lefrançois' first solo exhibition in the United States. Lefrançois, who was born in 1997 in Saint-Agrève, France, received her MFA at the Art Studio, the City College of New York, CUNY, New York City, NY.
Lefrançois presents a new body of work in The Eye of The River, featuring textile and landscape painting. She is inspired by the romanticized portrayal of nature in classical Western landscape painting, creating an alluring and attractive landscape that draws the viewer in. By reframing these pastoral scenes and 18th-century still life, she creates fragmented and decaying landscapes that expand into the gallery space. Lefrançois' landscapes are filled with hidden details; ferns conceal broken wings, rabbits stare through the dark, and a red river flows endlessly from the ground. Her landscapes are strange yet familiar, inviting viewers to lose themselves in an illusory sense of peace and calm. Here, the boundaries blur between pleasure and harm, beauty and destruction, challenging us to question how these notions coexist.
Lefrançois’ landscapes are deeply connected to her experience growing up in Auroville, India. Auroville is an experimental township founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa ("the Mother") and designed by architect Roger Anger. Inspired by the utopian model of human harmony and peace she grew up with, her landscapes explore the alluring facade of a perfect place that ultimately reveals humanity's capacity for violence.
The Lake George Arts Project Courthouse exhibitions and programs are funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature, the Town and Village of Lake George, 518 Profiles, The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust, The Touba Foundation, and LGAP members.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, on Lower Amherst Street in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions, our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12:00 – 5:00 pm, Saturday 12:00- 4:00 PM.
If you would like to visit exhibitions outside of gallery hours or request a tour for a group, please contact June Waters, Director of Exhibitions, at june@lakegeorgearts.org.
Image: Detail, Rainbow Lorikeet, 160 x 60 inches, Oil paint and acrylic on fabric
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