Marcy Friesen, Catch a Breeze, 2023, inkjet print, 50.8 x 66 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver.
Marcy Friesen, Sunkissed, from The Daydreamer series, 2023, inkjet print, 50.8 x 66 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver.
Marcy Friesen, Sisters, 2023, inkjet print, 160 x 106.7 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver.
Marcy Friesen, Catch a Breeze, 2023, inkjet print, 50.8 x 66 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver.
Marcy Friesen, Sunkissed, from The Daydreamer series, 2023, inkjet print, 50.8 x 66 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver.
Marcy Friesen, Sisters, 2023, inkjet print, 160 x 106.7 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver.
Daydreamer
Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 18, 5 – 7 pm
Daydreamer is an exhibition of new works by artist Marcy Friesen featuring photography, ephemera, poems, and audio recordings that explore her streams of consciousness.
In this body of work, Friesen invites the viewer to drift seamlessly between wakefulness and dreaming on a journey of the spirit captured by her camera lens. Scenes of the peaceful, endless prairie sky evoke the endless, lazy days of childhood summers. Here, thoughts can drift and consciousness ebbs and flows offering a sensory evocation of the breeze and grass that feature both land and body. Her lens-based works simultaneously emanate a sense of place and no place, of personal and universal.
Friesen states, “it all started with a prayer…then I heard…bead your lips…so I beaded my lips…then I heard…bead your face…so I beaded my face..then I beaded my hands.. I beaded my feet…skin beading….the process is soothing…I love the feel…I love the process…and the look….”
