Lyne Lapointe

The 1980s gave rise to a generation of artists who ignored the boundaries of discipline and place, creating works that were difficult to define and difficult to miss. Lyne Lapointe was one of the most remarkable. Her meeting with Martha Fleming produced a collaboration striking in both innovation and longevity and between 1982 and 1995 the duo created on-site urban installations around the world.With la Tache aveugle (Blind Spot) Lapointe resurfaces with a new body of work. In a burst of interdisciplinary activity, she hearkens back to Renaissance ideals with drawings, paintings and collage that reveal a universe oscillating between art and science.

Steve Baker is professor of contemporary visual culture at the University of Central-Lancashire (U.K.). Christine Ross is head of the Art History Department at McGill University.