Issue 2: embodied

Artist statement: My relationship with my body is a theme I have resisted until recently. Feelings of shame and alienation permeate my sense of my own physicality, but when I bring my painter's eye to the task of rendering my own form, my critical mind disengages. I am able to see myself, to see my body in terms that I can accept: colour, form, light and shadow. In this way, I am painting myself into the world.

Artist Bio: Laurie M. Landry is a Deaf Canadian contemporary artist. Her work focuses on contemporary portraiture of marginalized subjects such as those who are Deaf or living with a disability.  In her figurative art, she is currently exploring the corporeality of heterogeneous bodies.  She is particularly intrigued by the ways in which the hands and bodies can communicate an idea without speaking. Landry has participated in guided artist residencies across Canada and her work has been shown in art galleries across Canada. She has also curated a group show featuring figurative works by contemporary female artists exploring themes of youth and aging bodies. She is currently exhibiting in Toronto.