Landry's training in Design and career as a 3D Architecture Visualization Specialist inform the way she observes, organizes, Marion Landry is a francophone visual artist originally from Montreal. Through a non-figurative language her paintings explore themes of atmospheric phenomena, colour temperature, environmental shifts as well as illusions of time, light, and space. Currently residing on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations in Vancouver, BC. Landry's training in Design and career as a 3D Architecture Visualization Specialist inform the way she observes, organizes, and translates the pictorial plane. She obtained her BFA (2016) and an MFA (2023) from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and has participated in exhibitions across Canada and internationally since 1999. In 2022 and 2023, she was awarded the University Women's Club of Vancouver Scholarship as well as the ECU x Griffin Residency Awards (July-Aug 2023).

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My practice is grounded in a phenomenological approach, which emphasizes an embodied experience through the process of painting. By incorporating the concept of the expanded field of painting into my practice, I create site-adjusted installations that utilize light, temperature, and traditional painting techniques to create immersive experiences. The geometrical compositions of my paintings draw upon iconic optical strategies, such as chromatic vibrations, hard-edged forms, and geometrical composition, positioning my work in dialogue with, but not defined by, the tenets of Modernist abstract. These echoes aim to open possibilities for exploring and interrogating the potentialities of abstraction today.