Harmonies in Motion – Marli Thibodeau

Gallery Sitka announces the exhibition “Harmonies in Motion” by contemporary artist Marli Thibodeau.  The public is invited to the free opening reception on Friday, July 26 from 4:30-6:30pm; Thibodeau will be in attendance. The show will be on display through August 9.

Artist Marli Thibodeau immerses herself in the study of the landscape around her as well as the inner landscape of self-discovery. Her paintings do not reference recognizable form, and the purposeful omission of exact references are key elements in her work. Thibodeau’s techniques include opaque and transparent layers which represent the ongoing dialog between painter and painting. By questioning what is here now, present within, she creates intense personal moments on the canvas.

Thibodeau explains, “I perceive my painting practice as a visual dance, with my mark-making as gestures and my color choices as emotions. This approach requires me to remain open to possibility rather than having a set outcome in mind.”

Thibodeau, a teacher of Azul Conscious Movement (a path of personal transformation), finds that movement reveals our inner state, a reflection of our interior world. Thibodeau says, “I believe that everyone has a unique way of expressing the experience of who they are, and I’ve discovered that mine is through un-choreographed visual and movement art. As I paint, I am continuously responding to what is here in the moment – to the instinctual connection of what is rising on the inside and how it is expressed in relation to what is on the canvas.”

Thibodeau maintains a year-round studio in Rockland, Maine and in 2015 she, with Karen Divine, conceived the Being Set Free project, a global collaboration of artists.

Additional information can be found at Gallery Sitka.