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Lucie Raymond and Lia Keech - What Lies Beneath
July 6 to August 7
Vernissage: July 9, from 6:30 to 8 pm
Building on Through Our Eyes, our first mother-daughter collaboration, What Lies Beneath explores how two people can live through the same moments and carry different experiences of them.
Together, we revisited five phases of our relationship and, at times, discovered just how differently many of the same moments had been experienced. In looking back, we found new understanding in moments we thought we already knew.
At the centre of the exhibition, a suspended installation of layered translucent panels, acrylic pours and thread traces the evolving relationship between us through five life phases. A series of companion works offers fragments of memory, grounding the installation in the people, places and moments that shaped our lives.
This work is not an attempt to reconcile the past or arrive at a single interpretation of it. Instead, it reflects on how understanding evolves through time, distance and reflection and on what remains as we move through life's many changes.
Biographies
Lucie Raymond is a Franco-Ontarian visual artist working in mixed media. Her practice moves between fragility and resilience, memory and material, where perception shifts through layers of making. She develops collaborative work rooted in relationship, transformation and lived experience.
Lia Keech is a Franco-Ontarian emerging artist and industrial designer. Her practice bridges design and making through an attention to material, form and function. Working across craft-based processes and conceptual design, she brings a sensitivity to structure and construction within collaborative work rooted in observation, experimentation and transformation.
Don Monet, Kelly Rendek, Luminita Serbanescu and Sarah Wayne - Limen
April 14 to June 28
An exhibition of artwork presented by four artists from the City of Ottawa Artist Studio Program. This group of artists, within their separate practices, are all working at a place where edges meet. “Liminal” refers to the border between one thing and another. In carpentry the limen refers to the threshold of the door. In art it can refer to anywhere an edge is found – Between states of colour, of media, of plasticity or even intentionality.
Biographies
Don Monet focuses on a post-modern landscape. His work explores the liminal space between photography and acrylic paint; he creates sequences of fractured photos which are then unified through traditional landscape techniques.
Kelly Rendek focuses on the liminal space between memory and place, incorporating abstraction and colour theory. Over the last several years, the shape of the quadrilateral has emerged as a constant theme in her work, and as a basis for abstracting elements of landscape.
Luminita Serbanescu creates paintings that seem to occupy the liminal space found between waking and a dream. A dream of universe, a dream of flying. She describes her style as “luminism” In Romanian, her name Luminita means “little light”.
Sarah Wayne paints in the liminal space between abstraction and realism. Her focus for this show is dream-like abstracted botanicals and landscapes in mixed media.
Artwork details (clockwise from left): Luminita Serbanescu, Dance me to the end of time, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 91.5 x 61cm; Sarah Wayne, Botanica I, 2026, mixed media, 20 x 27.5 cm; Kelly Rendek, Topophilia #1, 2024, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 41 x 51 cm; Don Monet, Moonrise: Barrett Chute, 2025, acrylic on birch panel, 61 x 61 cm; courtesy of the artists.
