David Garneau : Peripheral PaintingsTools Dawn, Leslie. David Garneau : Peripheral Paintings. Regina, Saskatchewan: Rosemont Art Gallery, 2002.
Abstract (English)"For me, these paintings contain innumerable possibilities. They are: perceptual experiments; a play between figure and ground, between forms and content, irony and beauty; a comment on censorship and the degrees of the forbidden; an attempt to put non-objective art in dialogue with representation; a play on Arthur Danto’s aesthetics; a challenge and embrace of semiotic theories of art; a bit of perversity, indulging in beauty while denying it; a way of revealing and concealing personal content; an attempt to reach the metaphysical through the material..." -- Artist's website.
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