Karen LaFleur is a Techspressionist moving image artist. Her artwork explores the interplay between interior and exterior worlds with a focus on adaptability. For the exhibition Mariniana, LaFleur creates a trilogy of moving image works that imagine the connections between ocean waterbodies. Part one envisions a vertical water column, part two looks at eddies along water boundaries, and part three is a bird-eye view of our global ocean current system. In collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist Lukas Taenzer, through the Rhode Island Art League Synergy Project, LaFleur fills her moving image works with invented sea-creatures and swirling water movements. She imagines Taenzer’s scientific studies in how the coastal and open ocean intermingle and mix with one another by following ocean salinity, temperature, and current signals.

Music composed and performed by Nancy Tucker.

Karen LaFleur lives on Cape Cod, MA
 

Renata Janiszewska, a Canadian multidisciplinary artist, brings her luminous digital paintings to life in Mariniana: The Interrupted Wave. She also composes and performs all of her soundtracks. Her moving image works serve as visual representations of ocean mythology, and also engage viewers in an emotional and intellectual dialogue about the ocean’s power and mystery. These works not only embody the principles of Techspressionism, but can also be said to influence its advancement and growth as an artistic approach.

Janiszewska lives in Lion’s Head, Canada.