Current #5

About Current #5

This contemporary abstract painting features colourful geometric patterns.

For several decades, the dynamic acrylic paintings of Yvonne Lammerich have attracted the attention of both critics and art collectors internationally. This series of abstract paintings called ‘Current’ explores shape and vivid colour— expressed in bold geometric patterns that appear to have palpable energy. Lines, squares, circles, and triangles are rendered in bright red, blue, gold, green, and burgundy. One of a series that when grouped together make a powerful visual statement.

"I think not only of colour but of the more encompassing idea of light. I think not only of paint but of its materiality as matter. I think not only of structure but of its origin in pattern." Yvonne Lammerich

"Lammerich has always been interested in patterns, but patterns understood through the sieve of a colour-sensibility and syntax that conserves its freshness, its originality and its dynamism." James Campbell, Writer and Curator

Yvonne Lammerich was born in Germany in 1946. She emigrated with her family to Canada in 1959. Lammerich attended the Ontario College of Art and also received a master’s in art history from Concordia University in Quebec.
She furthered her studies and acquired a PhD from the Université du Québec à Montréal. While pursuing her own art, she also taught at York University, OCAD University, the University of Lethbridge, and Zayed University in Dubai.
Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and is held in numerous private and public collections.