Individual Residencies
2019 | Lynn Imperatore
Blue. Yonder. Blue. Wonder.
Blue, in hue and metaphor, discloses shifting meanings—sadness, sacredness, calm, obscenity etc.—along with colouring perceptions of atmospheres that expand our view onto mystery. Using old ordnance survey maps, I obscure their delineations under vivid blue—while they seem an apt choice of substrate for addressing the disruptions and displacements borne by accruing loss. I am charting blue within my own practice — and in other art, art history, and texts — wandering around/wondering about what might lay beyond the borders of more familiar mappings.
Lynn Imperatore is an artist-researcher whose work engages questions of how art-as-process can enhance and expand our understandings of perception. Her practice-led PhD examined drawing’s capacity to apprehend and articulate the unexpected edges of what can comprise the ‘visible’. She is co-founder/co-editor of HATCH/Drawing Research Project, has lectured and written extensively about drawing and perception and has exhibited widely. A native New Yorker, Lynn now resides in Bristol, UK.