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MARIE-PIERRE
PHILIPPE LOHEZIC
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Born in Paris, France,
Marie-Pierre graduated in
Biochemistry from the University
of Orsay. Her passion, however,
was Art. She attended night
classes at École des Beaux-Arts,
in Paris, where she learned
sketching, drawing, watercolor
and oil painting. Mother of
three girls, she followed her
husband wherever his employment
lead and had the unique
opportunity of exploring various
countries in Asia, such as
China, Vietnam, Korea, Burma,
Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand,
Singapore and Malaysia. The
immersion in such different
cultures, so fully rich and
diverse, had a profound
influence over her sensitivity
and allowed her to discover and
master different procedures that
she uses to express herself as
appropriate, like Chinese brush,
ceramic and porcelain painting.
Now settled in Southern
California, Marie-Pierre
continuously adds new skills to
her palette: Printmaking,
Sculpture, Bronze Casting, Stone
Carving, Wax, Wood Carving, all
contributing to her liberty to
elect the medium that will most
aptly convey her message or
reflect her feelings
Creatively inspired by the
moderns like Picasso, Buffet,
Cézanne, Rodin and Archipenko,
Marie-Pierre is attracted to
cubism and abstract art, but may
also elect to be figurative
according to the emotion she
wants to portray or the mood of
the moment.
Marie-Pierre is less interested
in becoming proficient in one
technique than to discover what
that technique can do for her
art. Her versatility is actually
her way of expressing her
spontaneity. Creating is the
spur of a moment, even with a
slower media, such as Stone
carving. She is at a loss when
she is unable to produce a
result rapidly, because what
initially inspired her may
escape her if she fails to grab
it. Her art is to capture the
instant or to snatch the
movement or to seize the mood
and these are her major themes:
express the instant, the motion,
and the emotion.
Colors play an important part in
her paintings, as they are
instrumental in exposing
contrasting moods and provide a
sense of dimension and movement.
They are the implements of
choice for two-dimensional
oeuvres, although they may also
provide an added element in a
multi-dimensional composition.
Other media, such as stone
carving, afford the freedom to
express duration and change, and
are particularly apt to
rendering metamorphosis, which
is an intriguing theme in her
art. Life is a motion that is
constantly veered and altered by
external forces and
transformation occurs as a
result. Three-dimensional media
confer the means to expose these
transmutations.
Action is a succession of
snapshots and Marie-Pierre also
likes to catch that progression
and combine it in a
metamorphosis of the object. One
figure in motion results in
another shape and the
transformation is intriguing and
potentially surprising, thus
interesting. Evolution or
genesis, the magic is in the
juxtaposition of the original
and final states.
Extending the concept of
metamorphosis, the woman body is
a source of endless
inspirations, for a woman
generates life and alters her
body in the process. The woman
body is so rich that it can be
depicted in myriads of ways
according to the perspective of
the artist and her feelings at
the time, and that body is the
envelope sheltering the
multi-faceted being inside.
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