Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Bri Vermeer

Everybody's Lookin' [for the Meaning of All Of This «JOYBOY»] | Café São, de Lorimier, Montréal, QC

Painting
2019
Oil and brass eyelets on canvas
70x93"
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“My experience is that my family functions first and foremost as a unit of grief and remembrance. We are “​verloren hoop”​ : the advance guard. A lost, forlorn heap. My work seeks to make monuments of sentimental items. This knitted, patchwork blanket — crafted many years ago by my Oma Vermeer-Honingh— holds memories, experience, and age within its many knots. Omnipresent in my mother’s van, this blanket serves as a safety measure on long drives to visit family in mid-north Ontario and beyond. I began taking photos on my solo travels to document my own travels. The context and location of each painting is provided by the title, as a form of recordkeeping. My large scale paintings often situate it within an unknown and ambiguously rendered environment to serve as a reminder that it is not necessarily the place that provides meaning, but the memory of the space you bring with you. ”

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Everybody's Lookin' [for the Meaning of All Of This «JOYBOY»] | Café São, de Lorimier, Montréal, QC
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Bri Vermeer

Painter and printmaker

“Bri's current work focuses on the intersections of memory, disability, family textiles, and movement through both the built and natural environment. She happily switches between the intuitive process...” [More]