I’m a Canadian abstract/ contemporary artist working with paint, mixed media, photography and found objects.
The fodder for my art-making: a love of abstract expressionism and colour field painting and a fascination with the vastness of time and the marvel that we exist.
There are two ways to live: as if nothing is a miracle, or as if everything is a miracle. (after Albert Einstein)
NEWS & EXHIBITIONS
- Ongoing in the studio: This Is How It Goes: By Change and By Chance. An 800-day project. Idea: August 3, 2024, marked Day 400 of my project to model the passage of time and how natural change and complete chance cumulatively affect a life. For 400 days, starting July 1, 2023, I rolled a die on a “life” (a 36 X 36 inch, ever-changing work on paper) and removed a piece from where the die landed. Pushing the idea: The stand-in life has held up well. So, on August 4, 2024, the now de facto 800-day project began. New end date: September 8, 2025. Process: Keep up the daily die-casting for another 400 days. Where the die lands, mark an X and cut out a small piece roughly proportional to the number cast (1-6). Date the piece and file it. Meantime, regularly modify the work’s surface by adding paint, collage and drawing according to whim, mood and necessary adaptation to sustain the slowly transforming life. Updates at: instagram.com/georgina.montgomery.art
The 400-day mark. Now on to 400 more. This Is How It Goes: By Change and By Chance
- Art Residency, Joya AiR, Almeria, Spain, June 2024. Idea: To create a means of visually characterizing the ephemeral nature of a person’s time in a new place/in any place. Process: Record my 2-week stay by daily hand-stitching a kind of calendar/journal on semi-transparent fabric (46 X 70 inches). Take the piece out of the studio and onto the surrounding properties and landscape to set against the backdrop of the markers of geologic time and past human settlement and enterprise. More images and videos at: instagram.com/georgina.montgomery.art
- Self-directed art project, Wales, Sept/Oct 2024. Idea: To explore further the idea of visually characterizing the ephemeral nature of a person’s time in a place. Process: Record my 3-week stay by daily hand-stitching a kind of calendar/journal on semi-transparent fabric (c. 4 X 5 feet). Activate the piece by taking it out of the studio and into the landscape, townscapes and ocean to set against the backdrop of the markers of geologic time and past human settlement and enterprise. More images and videos at: instagram.com/georgina.montgomery.art
