Towards is pleased to present Tree Museum, an exhibition of new work by Maya Beaudry.
Within her practice, Beaudry explores memory and place, and the ways in which these elements are inextricably linked. Her work examines the often porous boundaries between interiority and exteriority, entropy and growth, and their impact on our relationship to the environments that surround us.
In recent years, Beaudry has been documenting the subsequent cycles of deconstruction and construction within her hometown of Vancouver. Through her works, buildings are understood as living sites of memory, in which the ever-changing architectural environment is not only a physical transformation, but a spiritual one, often echoing patterns of human life.
The works within Tree Museum consider the relationship between body, materials, and the built environment. Abstracted forms are interwoven with architectural elements. Bright swathes of colour radiate out and seep into one another. The works appear in a constant state of transformation, continuously shifting between abstraction and representation, image and object, becoming and unbecoming, all at once.
Tree Museum marks a progression in Beaudry’s practice. Starting with Flower Painting, and culminating in Skeleton, the artist charts her expanded way of working – washes of ink are applied to material and layers are built up. This surface can then be stuffed and sewn, and then finally cut away – creating a dynamic interplay between positive and negative space.
Throughout Beaudry’s work a metamorphosis occurs. Memory, material, and place are interwoven in a way that creates something wholly new. No longer rooted in what once was, these works are ultimately about what is to become.
