White Works / Études en blanc
Michèle LaRose – 2012
Known for her strong use of colour, LaRose’s White Works achieve the same musical energy of her earlier paintings.
In the State of Flux Gallery, Michèle LaRose (Kingston, ON) presents a series of new paintings in a non-representational idiom experimenting with the use of a palette restricted primarily to the colour of white. After years of working with the National Museums of Canada and National Archives and as a management consultant, LaRose turned full-time to her painting in 2002. Known for her strong use of colour, LaRose’s White Works achieve the same musical energy of her earlier paintings, at the same time that drawing surfaces as a significant player in the compositions.
About the Artist
Michele LaRose—
Michèle LaRose is a painter based in Kingston, Ontario. She studied fine art in Québec City, Montréal and Brockville. She has a B.A. (Hons) in Art History from Queen`s University in Kingston and a Certificate in Fine Arts from St. Lawrence College. Michèle worked for many years with the federal government in the cultural field, before moving to the private sector. In 2002 she turned to painting. Michèle has focused primarily on painting, with forays into printmaking and book illustration. Her focus is abstraction and colour, the nature of which she plumbs for new insights. She is intrigued by the interaction of colour and form and the spontaneous and intuitive leaps that occur. Of equal interest is the function of the brain, which seeks to decipher any image into recognizable shapes, and how this reveals itself no matter how un-representational the paintings are. Michèle has exhibited extensively since 1994.