Lisa Tognon

Lisa Tognon graduated from l’Université du Québec à Montréal with a BFA and a Major in Printmaking. In 1998, she won the Loto-Québec Annual Print Competition and the Prix d’excellence of the Biennale L’Art et le Papier III, presented by Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron. The same year, she was awarded the Prix Jacques-Cartier des Arts by the City of Lyon, France, on the occasion of the International Miniature Print Competition.

During the summer of 2009 she presented “Passages”, a solo exhibition, at La Maison des arts de Laval. A catalogue was published for the occasion with texts by René Viau, curator of the exhibition and Dorota Kozinska, art critic. “Passages” was presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and at the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke.

Lisa Tognon is an artist with tremendous potential. Highly original, her works show a solid pictural discipline and an impressive mastery of the printmaking techniques. The quality and uniqueness of her work place her in the elite group of Quebec’s printmakers.

Henry Wanton Jones

Henry Wanton Jones

Henry Wanton Jones

Education

  • 1947-50 Fine Arts, Sir George Williams University
  • 1950-53 School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, on scholarship
  • 1951-53 Student of Arthur Lismer, Jacques de Tonnancour, Gordon Webber, Eldon Grier.

Teaching

  • 1960-67 Drawing, School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • 1961-63 Children’s Art, with Arthur Lismer and Audrey Taylor
  • 1970 Graphic Arts, University of Quebec
  • 1973-75 Sculpture, McGill University
  • 1967-83 Associate Professor, Drawing & Sculpture, Sir George Williams University

Solo Exhibitions

  • 1953 Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
  • 1955 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • 1957 Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
  • 1961 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • 1962 Penthouse Gallery, Montreal
  • 1969 Waddington Gallery, Montreal [sculpture]
  • Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto [sculpture]
  • 1972 Retrospective, Sir George Williams University
  • 1980 Galerie Excentrique, Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts
  • 1981 Galerie Pierre Larin, Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts
  • 1982 Kastel Gallery, Westmount
  • 1994 Kastel Gallery, Westmount
  • 1997 Kastel Gallery, Westmount
  • 1999 Gallery Gevik, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 1950 Les Rebelles, Montréal
  • 1953, 1957 Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montréal
  • 1954 Sainte-Adele Art Centre
  • 1954 Garret Studio, Montréal
  • 1955 Canadian Ceramics of 1955, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • First Canadian Art Biennale, National Gallery of Canada
  • 1955-67 Canadian Group of Painters Annual Exhibitions
  • 1956 Panorama of Montreal Painters, Ile Sainte-Helene
  • Canadian Painting and Sculpture, University of Sherbrooke
  • 1957 35 Important Painters, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • Ceramics, Sculptures, Enamels etc., University of Montreal
  • 1958 Women’s Committee Art Expo, Monrteal Museum of Fine Arts [also ’60, 61′, 62′, 64′]
  • 1958-59 Restaurant Helene de Champlain, Ile Sainte-Helene
  • Annual Sales of Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
  • 1959 Young Monteal Painters, travelled in Ontario
  • 1960 Four Canadians, Art Gallery of Ontario
  • 1961 Annual Exhibition, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • 1963-65 Youth Exhibition, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • 1964 Ronal Conservatory of Art Exhibition, Ottawa & Montreal
  • Hotel de Ville d’Arvida
  • 1965 Canadian Embassy Exhbition, New York
  • 1966 Black & White, Studio 23
  • 1966-67 Canadian Artistry, National Gallery of Canada [travelled]
  • 1967 Sculpture ’67, Toronto
  • Salon du Printemps Laureates: 1908-1965, Monteal Museum of Fine Arts
  • 1970 Twenty Years of Quebec Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal & Museum Rodin, Paris
  • 1972-81 Fine Arts Faculty Shows, Sir George Williams University
  • 1981 Natures Mortes, Galerie L’Art Francais, Monteal
  • 1984 50th Anniversary/ 50 Artists, Galerie L’Art Francais, Montreal
  • The Landscape in Quebecois Painting, Galerie L’Art Francais, Montreal
  • 1985 La Galerie L’Art Francais Presente…, Sherbrooke
  • 1986 Inaugural Exhibition, Galerie L’Art Francais, Sherbrooke
  • 1990 Collector’s Choice, Kastel Gallery, Westmount
  • 1991 20th Century Canadian Art, Galerie Michel Bigue
  • Artists of Quebec, Gallery 78, Fredericton, N.B.
  • 1991-93 Spring Collection, Galerie Yvon Desgagnes, Baie-Saint-Paul
  • 1992 Quebecois Sculpture: 1946-61, Musee du Quebec
  • 1993 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Kastel Gallery
  • 1997 Tout Petit Formats, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin
  • 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Gallery Gevik, Toronto

Commissions & Awards

  • Elected to the Canadian Group of Painters, 1956
  • Show Award, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1956
  • Prix de Poterie, Expo International, Brussels, 1958
  • Honourable Mention, 78th Salon du Printemps, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1961
  • First Prize, Canadian Group of Painters Exhibition, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1963
  • Canada Council Grants, 68-69, 72-73 [sculpture]
  • Thomas More Purchase Award, 1973 [sculpture]
  • Centaure: a sculpture for G Sheppard’s film, “Eliza’s Horoscope’
  • Love/L’Amour: a 38 foot sculpture commissioned by the Minister of Public Works, erected at Place du Portage, Hull, Quebec

Selected Collections

  • Musee du Quebec
  • Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Musee d’Art de Joliette
  • Ministry of Public Works, Hull, Quebec
  • Confederation Center Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, PEI
  • McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Onterio
  • Bundy Art Gallery, Waitsfield, Vermont
  • Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
  • Concordia University, Montreal
  • University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B.
  • The Thomas More Institute, Montreal
  • Loto-Quebec, Montreal
  • DuPont Canada Inc., Mississauga, Ontario

Pierre Bouchard

Pierre Bouchard

Pierre Bouchard explore sur canevas standards des thèmes classiques comme la nature, les oiseaux, les poissons, les fruits ou le hockey. Conservateur dans les sujets mais moderne dans le traitement, il peint des images épurées, aux couleurs dégoulinantes, augmentées de mots tracés à l’aérosol et au pochoir. Le résultat relève du documentaire, de l’affiche publicitaire. Un contenu léger que d’autres qualifieraient de décoratif.

De l’autre côté du miroir, il y a Newjoecool, une autre identité grâce à laquelle le peintre s’exprime. Issu de la découverte du graffiti en 2008 et poussé par l’envie de s’exprimer avec ce langage, Newjoecool joue à sa façon avec les codes de ce courant artistique.

Pierre Bouchard, graffiti,

Pierre Bouchard, graffiti,

(sorry, english version will follow soon)

Maude Hallé

MAUDE HALLE

Ma démarche artistique

Qu’est-ce qui me pousse à créer? Autrefois, j’aurais dit que c’était les images dans les magazines de mode et les affiches publicitaires qui m’inspiraient pour créer, mais aujourd’hui, je dirais plutôt que ce sont les images qui m’entourent au quotidien qui animent mon esprit créatif. Que ce soit l’effet de la lumière sur un sac de plastique qui vole au vent ou encore la trace laissée par ma tasse de café sur la table; n’importe quel petit moment du quotidien peut m’amener à créer.

Bien qu’avec les années, j’ai touché à plusieurs disciplines, certains thèmes reviennent régulièrement dans ma pratique, soit : l’art contemporain, la quête d’identité, le langage, l’autoportrait, l’obsession, le principe d’addition et de soustraction, la trace laissée par les choses et la limite entre le figuratif et l’abstraction.

L’art, pour moi, est une façon d’exprimer mon intériorité, mes angoisses et mes réflexions qui sont probablement partagées par un grand nombre de personnes. Bien que je m’intéresse de plus en plus à développer une dimension conceptuelle à mon travail, le résultat esthétique demeure très important pour moi. Mon souhait ultime serait que mon art soit accessible à tous et parvienne à toucher le spectateur sans même qu’il ait besoin de s’informer sur ma démarche au préalable. Je considère qu’une bonne œuvre communique par elle-même.

Mes études

2007-2012 : Études secondaires au Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie

2013-2016 : Études collégiales au College Dawson en Arts Visuels

2017- : Baccalauréat à l’Université du Québec à Montréal en Arts Visuels et Médiatiques

(sorry, in english as soon as possible)

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Michel Lancelot

Lancelot, Michel
Biography: Born March 5th, 1945 in Angers, France. He has lived in Quebec since 1967.

Education:
Graduated from Montreal School of Fine Arts in 1974 with major in engraving. The same year, he took charge of the Pavillon of Engraving at «Terre des Hommes», on the site of the former 1967 World Expo. At the same time, he hosted the first retrospective show of the prints of Albert Dumouchel, considered as being the father of Quebec’s engraving. Michel Lancelot has spent his entire life teaching fine arts in various schools. He is now a full-time member of Atelier Circulaire, the most important printer’s studio in Montreal.

Collections:
National Bank – A.A.P.P. Inc. – GPC Concordia – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – F.T.Q. – Institut de Recherche Clinique de Montreal – Everest Group – Loto-Quebec – Pouliot Mercure

JOURNAL METRO

L’Express d’Outremont
4 décembre 2012
Une inscription, un graphe dans les formes de la temporalité : telle pourrait être une caractérisation de l’œuvre de Michel Lancelot. Cela tient d’abord à la maîtrise éclairée de différentes techniques : aquatinte, lithographie, eau-forte, pratiques qui s’entrecroisent, qui s’éclairent et fournissent d’inépuisables possibles.

L’artiste fût aussi enseignant, et cette profession qui exprime entre autres la volonté d’être un passeur, de transmettre un savoir qui est surtout un héritage, confère aussi une texture particulière à la recherche artistique.

Le versant intuitif, la spontanéité du geste doit se décomposer pour être saisie; à la limite, il faut revenir à l’aube des apprentissages pour les re-connaître. Une temporalité qui est aussi conservation et valorisation, car Michel Lancelot investit dans ses récents travaux des cartes géographiques tirées de vieux almanachs, des gravures d’Hokusai extirpées de beaux livres sur l’art, des trouvailles en grand format aux couleurs surannées.

Ces supports sur lesquels s’effectue le travail sont choisis non seulement pour les qualités inhérentes à la matière, mais aussi et surtout pour la beauté des gravures, du dessin, des coloris et des moments de l’histoire qu’ils représentent. L’intervention n’est jamais passéiste; il s’agit plutôt d’un hommage, une façon de créer un dialogue entre l’artiste et cette matière venue du passé.

Michel Lancelot pose sur cela des formes végétales, animales et humanoïdes qui forment des compositions où l’équilibre et la cohérence sont constants. Il y a parfois émergence d’un petit théâtre. Parfois aussi quelques traits dessinent-ils un visage, ébauchent un sourire narquois, tracent un œil malicieux, toutefois la figuration ne porte pas un message.

Sous l’encre noire comme sous les carmins, citrons ou azur, il est possible de distinguer les fonds ouvragés; les formes créées par l’artiste ouvrent là-dessus des fenêtres à ces anciennes harmonies. Ce sont les signes d’une appréciation très sentie envers des qualités de savoir-faire du passé. Par ailleurs, une vie bien réelle et une ironie bienveillante imprègnent ce travail, et cela laisse l’impression d’une sorte d’allégresse, d’une célébration esthétique épurée de tout contenu doctrinal.

Voici une mince inscription dans le corps même de la démarche de l’artiste : une recherche heureusement sans fin poussée toujours plus avant par une passion pour les techniques de gravure, de dessin, de peinture. Un dialogue médiatisé par des créatures et des créations que l’on reconnaît immédiatement; elles composent le délicat paraphe de Michel Lancelot dans l’histoire de l’art.

Douglas Miller

 

Douglas Miller

Through an intuitive process of accumulating and scattering lines, digressions in narratives, and often-abandoning subjects, drawing is a dynamic and fundamental part of myself. A part that is both embedded in history and continually changing. I work in the same way that an author revises text, constructs sentences, edits words, deconstructs sentences, and rubs out ideas. The objective of correction fascinates me.

 

Education

2007 ­2009 University of Louisville, Bachelor of Fine Arts 2009 Louisville, Kentucky

1993 ­1995 Ringling College of Art and Design Sarasota, Florida Grants/Awards

2015 Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Kentucky Arts Council Young Harris College Visiting Artist Honorarium

2014 Mazin Juried Exhibition Best in Show Award Kentucky Derby Museum Artist­in­Residence Honorarium

2013 L.E.O. Reader’s Choice Award “Best Visual Artist”

2011 L.E.O. Readers’ Choice Award “Best Visual Artist”

201 0L.E.O. Readers’ Choice Award “Best Visual Artist” 2009Bill Fischer Working Artist Grant, University of Louisville Allen R. Hite Scholarship, Dean’s List

2008 American Artist: Drawing Magazine Honorable Mention, Krempp Gallery 15th Annual Juried Competition Award of High Honor, Unusual Animals Exhibition Awarded Best in Show, Dean’s List Selected Exhibitions

2015 ­ Plan for an Undoing: New Drawings by Douglas Miller The Green Building Gallery. Louisville, Kentucky. ­ Vignettes M.A. Doran Gallery. Tulsa, Oklahoma. ­ Wild Things Lexington Living Arts & Science Center Museum. Lexington, Kentucky ­ New Times Three: New Artists, New Works, New Year Blue Spiral 1 Gallery. Asheville, North Carolina.

2014 ­ Mazin Juried Exhibtion Patio Gallery. Louisville, Kentucky ­ KINGDOM: Animals in Contemporary Art Manifest Gallery. Cincinnati, Ohio ­ Revolver Antler Gallery. Portland, Oregon ­ Impressions: Art of the Race Kentucky Derby Museum. Louisville, Kentucky

2013 ­ Troublesome Houses: An Art Tribute to Will Oldham PUBLIC Gallery. Louisville, Kentucky ­ By the Numbers PUBLIC Gallery. Louisville, Kentucky ­ Title still to be Determined (Lecture) University of Louisville, Hite Art Institute. Louisville, Kentucky ­ Title to be Determined at a Later Date (Lecture and exhibit) Melvin Peterson Gallery, University of Evansville. Evansville, Indiana

2012 ­ ReAnimation: Turning Toys into Art Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. Louisville, Kentucky ­ Bewilderinger The Green Building Gallery. Louisville, Kentucky ­ Wild at Heart: Keep Wildlife in the Wild Thinkspace Art Gallery. Los Angeles, CA ­ Douglas Miller: Old and New Drawings Patio Gallery. Louisville, Kentucky

2011 ­ Dig for Fire C.A.V.E. Gallery. Venice, California ­ L Likes Animals Quills Gallery. Louisville, Kentucky

2010 ­ Louisville Visual Art Association

2010 Art Auction LVAA Water Tower Gallery. Louisville, Kentucky ­ Douglas Miller: Drawings from The Nos Quills Gallery. Louisville, Kentucky

2009 ­ BFA Thesis Exhibition Hite Galleries, University of Louisville ­ International Drawing Annual: Selections from the 2008 INDA Exhibition Manifest Gallery. Cincinnati, Ohio

2008 ­ Animal Nature/Human Nature The 930 Art Center. Louisville, Kentucky ­ 21c Museum Dia de los Muertos 21c Museum Hotel. Louisville, Kentucky ­ Unusual Animals The 930 Art Center. Louisville, Kentucky ­ International Drawing Annual:

Collections

Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, CellarDoor Chocolates, Oohology Media + Design Lab, Corporate Office, University of Louisville, Speed School of Engineering, Forest Giant Corporate Office, the Larry Shapin and Ladonna Nicolas Collection, the John and Cynthia Norton Collection. Private Collections in Kentucky, California, Virginia, Florida, Washington, Alaska, New York, Texas and Illinois.

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James Kerr Scorpion Dagger

James Kerr Scorpion Dagger

James Kerr is a digital artist based in Montreal. He is best known for his animated GIF project Scorpion Dagger. In this project James mixes his own illustrations with cut outs from various paintings from art history. In the process he creates a new world to comment and satirize our modern age and pop culture in general.

This project has began to spill out from the internet into the real world. James’ animated GIF’s have been shown in art galleries in the US, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, and England.

He regularly does commissioned art. Various clients have included The New York Times, Gucci, Adult Swim, and Perrier.

Most recently his art caught the eye of renowned film director Jim Jarmusch. James was commissioned to create animated sequences for Mr. Jarmusch’s new documentary “Gimme Danger” about the band Iggy and Stooges.

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Aaron Tanner

Aaron Tanner

Celebrating over 10 years of blue-collar, creative clarity.

Melodic Virtue is a small, hard-working independent publisher with a strong history of award-winning work in the music industry. Originally started in 2004 as a graphic design studio by Aaron Tanner, we’re known for telling our clients’ authentic and unusual stories visually, and now do so through limited-run coffee table books to engage fans of music.

Tanner has been creating memorable design work for well-known acts for over 15 years. A musician and life-long fan of music and the arts, Tanner’s design work has won numerous national awards and has been recognized by several prestigious international design publications. He also volunteers at universities to help mentor future designers.

FEATURES: 1000 Dog Portraits: From the People Who Love Them (Rockport), 1000 Supreme CD Designs (Page One), Art Dogs: 100 Postcards (Rockport), BeerAdvocate Magazine, Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Packaging (Grip), Cool Beer Labels (Print), éTapes Magazine, Design: Logo – An Exploration of Marvelous Marks… (Rockport), Dirty Fingernails (Rockport), Disc Makers Magazine, Interactive Design 2 (Graphis), Introducing: Designs For Making A First Impression (Gestalten), Los Logos 4 (Gestalten), Oh Beautiful Beer: The Evolution of Craft Beer and Design (Countryman Press), Paste Magazine, Promotion Design 2 (Graphis), Tres Logos (Gestalten)

AWARDS: AAF National ADDY Awards Silver 2016, AAF National ADDY Awards Gold 2013, AAF District 6 ADDY Awards Gold 2015, AAF District 6 ADDY Awards Gold 2013, AAF District 6 ADDY Awards Gold 2001, AAF Evansville ADDY Awards Best In Show 2013, AAF Evansville ADDY Awards Best In Show 2001, AAF Evansville ADDY Awards Gold 2015, AIGA Louisville Gold 2008, Evansville Design Group Awards Best In Show 2012, Evansville Design Group Awards Silver 2015, Evansville Design Group Awards Silver 2013

Maude Cournoyer

Maude Cournoyer

Born Sorel-Tracy 1985-

Bacc. interdisciplinaires UQAC (2007-2010)

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Ozias Leduc

Ozias Leduc

1864 – 1955

“Art teaches, informs. It uncovers the soul. No doubt it also has the power to sort the chaos of the unconscious into an orderly cosmos. It leads from disorder, suffering and unbalance to stability, harmony and joy.”
(Ozias Leduc, in a letter to Paul-Émile Borduas, 1943)

The Quebec painter Ozias Leduc is known both for his religious and secular works. In his church paintings, he transforms traditional iconography through a Symbolist interpretation. His genre portraits, still lifes, and landscapes are characterized by a warm, intimate quality, sensual lighting, and controlled brushwork. Leduc taught Paul-Émile Borduas and influenced Jean-Paul Riopelle.

Leduc began working in 1883 as a statue painter at the T. Carli studio in Montreal. He apprenticed in church mural painting with the Italian artist and set designer Luigi Capello in Montreal and with the painter and sculptor Adolphe Rho in Yamamiche, Quebec. Beginning in 1891, Leduc participated in numerous exhibitions at the Art Association of Montreal, in Ottawa, and in Toronto. After a seven-month stay in Paris in 1897, he developed a growing preoccupation with landscape and with allegorical compositions.

Among Ozias Leduc’s 150 church murals are those in his own parish church of Saint-Hilaire (1896-1900), the Chapel of the Bishop’s Palace, Sherbrooke (1922), and Notre-Dame-de-la-Présentation, Shawinigan-Sud (1942). He also decorated church interiors in Nova Scotia and the eastern United States. His secular works include Boy with Bread (1892-99) and Green Apples (1914-15).

Ozias Leduc
Collection of the Library and Archives, National Gallery of Canada.

Birth name

Ozias Leduc

Born

Born in Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, 08 October 1864

Died

Died in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, 15 June 1955

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