Published: September 19, 2024 Laurier Library in collaboration with the Robert Langen Art Gallery presents the 2024-2025 LIFT series featuring local artists Fatima Garzan, Kat Hernden and James Nye. Located on floors 4-6 of the Laurier Library the LIFT series is a community outreach program which highlights the creative talents of artists from the Region of Waterloo. This year’s exhibition is entitled Shapes of Serenity: A Journey into Geometric Abstraction and features three artists who incorporate the use of colours, shapes, and textures to explore the sense of peace and balance. Thoughtful and witty these unique creative approaches invite viewers to contemplate the importance of harmony, structure, and pattern. The geometric abstraction movement is based on the deconstruction of accepted visuals for the use of flat lines, circles, rectangles, and grids as the primary elements to form non-illusionistic spaces. Popularized in the early twentieth century by Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Josef Albers these bold compositions become iconic in pushing the boundaries of traditional artistic norms.“Together artists Fatima Garzan, Kat Hernden and James Nye express their unique approaches to geometric abstraction in distinctive and experimental manners. Allowing viewers to think differently about how shape and form intersect” says Suzanne Luke, University Art Curator of the Robert Langen Art Gallery.The Laurier Library / RLAG will host an exhibition reception with the artists on Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. This event is open to the public and admission is free. Works are on display until June 30 ,2025 during Laurier Library building hours Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, email RLAG@wlu.ca.