Anima Mundi

MSP Terminal 1, Gallery C6
April 2023 - April 2024

Artist Statement
The way light describes space, time of day, and structure becomes an allegory for the balance between unity and perceived dichotomies. It is this balance between the singular and the whole that can lead to questions of the nature of perception and reality, objectivity versus subjectivity, and the physical and metaphysical. The paintings do not attempt to depict a scene, but rather harken to a moment of understanding an experience that transcends the sense of self, bringing one closer to understanding their relation to the world in which we live.

Artist Bio
Paul LaJeunesse received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from Bowling Green State University in 2006. The same year, he received the Elizabeth Greenshields grant, and in 2007 he received a Fulbright grant to create landscape paintings in Iceland. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has created five public murals. His artwork investigates the relationship among individual memories of time, space, and place as a way in which we assign meaning to experiences and construct our sense of identity.