Spectral Ground
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Silver Spring, 2025, Oil on canvas 48x46 inches
Cumulus,2025, Oil on canvas, 34 x 30 inches
Venture, 2023, Oil on canvas, 60 × 58 inches
Stanza,2026, Oil on canvas, 48x46 inches
Aquifer, 2025, Oil on canvas 34 x 30 inches
Watch Duty, 2025, Oil on canvas 34 x 30 inches
Spectral Ground, 2026, oil on canvas, 34 x 30 inches
Marie Thibeault’s paintings investigate the capacity of a still image to hold multiple pictorial spaces at once. Her work registers memory, sensation, and premonition through layered compositions in which architecture, infrastructure, and landscape appear under pressure.
In Spectral Ground, signs of the built environment intersect with fragile natural phenomena: atmosphere, water, fire, and erosion. These elements do not resolve into a stable landscape. Instead, they produce a threshold space where natural and constructed worlds overlap, dissolve, and reform. Thibeault’s atmospheric fields of color hold this complexity together, giving visual form to environmental precarity and deep time.
Marie Thibeault I Artist Statement
My work investigates painting’s capacity to hold multiple pictorial spaces within a still, silent frame. I am drawn to its ability to register memory, sensation, and premonition, while sparking reverberations in the imagination and body. At the core of my practice is an inquiry into landscapes under pressure from climate change. Signs of infrastructure and architecture serve as framing devices, juxtaposed with fragile natural phenomena: atmosphere, water, fire, and erosion. Within this interplay, the painted surface becomes a threshold for transformation, a site where natural and built environments intersect, dissolve, and reform.
The resulting works convey flux and instability, yet are unified within atmospheric fields of color that lend cohesion to complexity. Painting, in this sense, becomes a metaphor for deep time and environmental precarity. Ultimately, I paint to bear witness, cultivate empathy, and illuminate our interdependence with the landscape.