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Edith Beaucage: ‘Chill Bivouac Rhymes’ at CB1 Gallery

By John Seed

July 16, 2015

Edith Beaucage: "Chill Bivouac Rhymes" at CB1 Gallery

Artist Edith Beaucage recently invited to meet me at CB1 Gallery’s new downtown space to walk me around her exhibition Chill Bivouac Rhymes. The show, which features both paintings and free-standing elements, has a rough storyline about a group of teenagers at a rave concert. By the way, if you don’t know what a bivouac is — as I didn’t prior to the show — it is a temporary encampment.

Keeping in mind Roland Barthe’s idea that the best stories are those which are open to widely varying interpretations, Beaucage’s sweet and sweepingly painted characters meet, flirt and wander in a loosely brushed Rococo paradise that opens up myriad narrative possibilities. “It’s in California in a way,” Edith explained to me as we entered the gallery, “there are woods, there is water, there is swimming: actually it’s kind of a mix of Quebec and California.”

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