Bri Vermeer
Liminal Threads
Painting
Work created throughout and for the historic COVID-!9 Responsize Art course at OCAD University Fall 2020.
“The concept of “home” is explored in these works— specifically, what constitutes a home? Is it four walls and a roof? Or can it be expanded to the landscaped corner outside your apartment building, to the coffee shop across the street you frequent daily, to the park two hundred metres away that you visited in order to meet with one or two people safely, to the rooftop sundeck at your apartment building, or the back entrance to the building that you used in order to avoid the throngs of delivery drivers with food or parcels? What exactly creates our homes is significantly less limited and precise than the Work-From-Home crowd would have usbelieve. These liminal spaces presented in this series are connected by an otherwise invisible thread—an ambiguous, lone figure...the shadow of the idea of socialization...these spaces are rendered in a deep Prussian blue that itself refers back to the omnipresent blue light emitted by our digital screens.”
Work by
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]