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of social codes with an emphasis on psychological and emotional content. Fundamentally interdisciplinary in content and form, Lemieux's work is a continual exploration and explication of our cultural constructs and how objects that reflect the self define the self within the culture. In her review of
Lemieux's major retrospective "The Strange Life of Objects," Elizabeth Michelman explains that, " addressing her content-laden material systematically, not sentimentally, Lemieux places objects and images in predicaments that are highly structured and memorable. In both two- and three-dimensional formats, she appropriates and wittily recontextualizes furnishings, texts and photographs rescued from history, popular culture and personal records."
162:, she works to narrow the gap between "art" and "life". Lemieux's works resist the traps of a "signature style", and she has referred to her shows looking more like group shows rather than a single artist's. Her work surprises us, challenges her audience to keep up, and resists the conformity of the brand. As stated by Peggy Phelan, "For Lemieux, the art object offers her thoughts and feelings a way to travel . . . Art is her way of responding, both publicly and intimately, to the ongoing predicament of our lives".
177:, Harvard University, Lemieux explored the territory between object, mediated memory, personal experience and cultural history that has informed her practice for three decades. Lemieux's objects and imagery derive directly from the world as it exists, not from the recesses of a private imagination that must search itself to produce the substance of invented images. With representative examples of her work in over 50 public collections, Lemieux has been the focus of two recent exhibitions organized by the
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United States 2016 elections, viewers could not help but feel their current worries and the tensions reflected in
Lemieux's work. Lemieux remarked that what she creates are "duets," taking objects from different places and times and blending them together, leaving her 2017 exhibit, "hair-raising polarity between peril and play."
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Lemieux works from a repertoire of real objects and images from films and books featuring reproductions of historical photographs from the forties and fifties, which she calls her "landscape". Her practice reflects a deep commitment to content and well as process, incorporating intellectual analyses
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In 2017, awarded with the Maud Morgan Prize
Lemieux had the space to exhibit her work at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In an article about the exhibition, Lemieux remarks that she did not intend for her work to come out as political commentary, but due to the current political climate after the
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Lemieux has also revised her works as the Global
Correspondent reported, "The Day after the election last November, Lemieux e-emailed the Whitney Museum of America Art and instructed them to upend her piece 'Left Right Left Right." The raised fists in 30 photolithography now point downward." As
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Annette Rose
Lemieux was born in Norfolk, Virginia. Her father Joseph was in the Marines, and the family lived in a house close to the base. When Lemieux's father was called overseas, her mother, Margaret, moved with their two daughters β Annette and Suzette β to her hometown of Torrington,
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