Artist statement

My art practice reflects my interest in the mechanics of imagery (how images work) as well as my fascination with the visual complexity of nature.  

My work is shaped by the interaction between the two mediums of photography and painting and my creative process involves a kind of back and forth between these two mediums. My practice is equally informed by the influence that both painting and photography have had on the use of imagery and representation in art.

In my work I use images to articulate a visual experience of the world as a kind of physical s ensation. For me, certain types of visual experience can evoke an almost tactile response. In most of my work I attempt to bring about this kind of sensation partly by depicting my subject matter life-size. It is important to me that my paintings provoke an awareness of the viewer's physical relationship to the image; a life-size scale refers to the body as central to the experience of perception and underscores "looking" as a kind of physical experience. Ultimately, my paintings are concerned with "the act of looking" and what it feels like to look out at the world.

In my recent work I have been depicting images of trees and sky. I am attracted by the relative simplicity of these two elements; as quotidian elements of the natural world, they are not really landscape nor do they suggest a specifically urban or rural "scene".   My goal with these works is to try to infuse seemingly arbitrary images of slightly banal subject matter with a certain resonance--one that would suggest transient moments of contemplation induced by an acute awareness of the presence of the natural world.

CV

Education

1991 MFA Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
1986 Diploma Visual Arts, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, Colombie Britannique

Selected solos exhibitions

2004 Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec.
2002 Maison de la Culture Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec.
1998 Eastern Edge Gallery, St-Jean, Terre-Neuve.
1997 Galerie D'Art D'Outremont, Montréal, Québec.
1996 Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nouvelle Écosse.
1995 Galerie Occurrence, Montréal, Québec.

Selected group exhibition

2006 Navigations Picturales , Maison de la Culture Marie-Uguay, Montréal.
2005 Un groupe de sept, L'Ambassade du Canada, Washington, D.C.
2005 ArtView 2005 , The City Museum, Washington, D.C.
2004 Les Femmeuses . Longueuil, Québec
2003 La peinture figurative contemporaine, Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec.
2003 Vues du paysage, Hedwidge Asselin commissaire, Galerie McClure, Montréal, Québec

Grants (selection)

2004 Bourse de Voyage, Conseil des Arts du Canada.
2000 Bourse de Recherche et Création, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.
1999 Bourse de Création/Production, Conseil des Arts du Canada.
1998 Bourse de Création/Production, Conseil des Arts du Canada.
1998 Bourse de Voyage, Conseil des Arts du Canada.
1997 Soutien a la Pratique Artistique, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.

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