Lorrie Fredette
Lorrie Fredette creates site-specific installations, sculptures and drawings inspired by medical and environmental stories. She gravitates toward the iconography and material sensibility of the Post-minimal Art Movement. Largely inspired by the unconventional working methods of Eva Hesse, whose interest in latex was sought for its pliability and immediacy, Fredette’s choice material, wax (paraffin), assumes a similar role.
I’m drawn to the late artist Eva Hesse’s suggestion that if something is meaningful it might be worth repeating. I’m interested in taking the same form to what I deem the edge and stopping there before it spills over. It’s not possible to think that the making or the telling of the same thing over and over again hasn’t been exaggerated. I see it as a visual folklore. — Lorrie Fredette
Entirely monochromatic, Fredette’s unusual presentations appear like organic masses floating effortlessly, reminding us that the whole is often more consequential than the sum of the individual parts. The slow meandering experience of her work is beautiful and comforting to comprehend.
Looking up at the thousands of small beeswax pods suspended by filigree thread from a constructed grid, the inclination is to stand in stillness and witness the cream-colored shapes shifting slowing in the air currents, tapping quietly together. The heady scent of wax envelops the viewer. If the task of art is to arrest the attention of a populous moving ever faster, Fredette is succeeding with this body of work that touches upon science, history, a deep engagement with materials, what we remember and what we forget. –Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachusetts