Opening: "Léni Paquet-Morante: Extract / Abstract"

"Léni Paquet-Morante: Extract / Abstract"
Landscape & the Architecture of Memory

Saturday, July 19, 2025 - Sunday, November 9, 2025

"Extract / Abstract" features recent works by Leni Paquet-Morante (born 1962, Temiscamingue, Quebec, Canada; active Hamilton, NJ) that reimagine landscape painting. Working across various media, including acrylic painting, ink drawing, and monoprints, the artist prioritizes abstraction through her use of bold colors, impressionistic mark-making, and unusual crops. Fascinated by tide pools, streams, and other shallow water systems characteristic of the Northeast, Paquet-Morante extracts basic and salient elements from nature and emphasizes the effects of patterned light and atmosphere to bring forward the complex beauty of everyday scenery. Deconstructing and rearranging the physical landscape, these works showcase her interest in capturing multiple perspectives as well as the relationship of her practice to vision, illustration, and memory.

Guest curated by Michael Quituisaca, Graduate Student, Department of Art & Archaeology

Learn more about this exhibition: https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/3857

Art@Bainbridge Hours:
Monday–Saturday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Art@Bainbridge is made possible through the generous support of the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Gene Locks, Class of 1959, and Sueyun Locks; and Ivy Beth Lewis.

Image: "Winter Sky on a Shallow," 2021. Acrylic on canvas. Collection of the artist.

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