This, together with a remarkable technical virtuosity, separates him out. He successfully eludes the overtures of taxonomy by dilating on his own lived experience, gleaning what he has learned from abstraction and leavening it with an intuitive rendering of the essence of things seen. A gifted abstractionist in a former life, he is an artist in loving fealty to the ground plane of representation and the rule of natural law. The furious markings of Marc-Antoine Nadeau are those of an artist intent on seizing all that comes under his purview that is deemed worthy and rendering what he sees incandescent and instantly recognizable – and unavoidably human. The sea has many voices,Ĭonvoy on the North Atlantic 1944 (2013) mixed media on wood (12'' x 15'') The more delicate algae and the sea anemone.Īnd the gear of foreign dead men. The pools where it offers to our curiosity The starfish, the horseshoe crab, the whale's backbone Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses The sea is the land's edge also, the granite The river is within us, the sea is all about us “River that must turn full after I stop dying”
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