Alma Louise Visscher
odradek, Handmade charcoal ink on paper, 15 x 18 inches; framed, 2021.
evenfall, Watercolour paint, handmade charcoal ink on paper, 15.75 x 20 inches, 2021.
falling lines, Watercolour paint on paper, 15.25 x 18.5 inches, 2021.
but try and see, Watercolour paint, handmade charcoal ink on paper, 17.25 x 21.25 inche, 2020.
folds and faults, Watercolour paint, handmade charcoal ink on paper, 15 x 19 inches, 2021
Alma Louise Visscher is a white settler living and working in amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 Territory. She creates fabric-based installations, soft sculptures, and drawings that consider material culture and the parameters of abstraction through a feminist lens. Her work has been shown throughout North America, as well in Iceland and Germany: Sweet Lorraine Gallery (Brooklyn), Kimura Gallery (Alaska), and included in the 2020 Canadian Biennial of Fibre Art (Idea Exchange, Cambridge ON) as well as in Future Station, the 2015 Biennial of Alberta Art (Art Gallery of Alberta). She is a recipient of the 2020 Edmonton Artist Trust Award.
About the Works
My work connects to the history of abstract painting and considers the inexplicable, but also contains fragments of what we touch on a daily basis, of the everyday, the utilitarian, and the wearable. I am curious to explore this intersection of materiality and the unknowable, the ecology of places, and the things that hold us, care for us, and comfort us. These drawings are made, in part, with handmade ink that my collaborator Taryn Kneteman and I made together, and are intertwined with conversations we had while drawing and making together around various tables and through various dimensions.