Artist Statement
My repertoire includes site specific projects, painting, drawing, and installation, based upon non-linear thinking. My art practice reflects this approach in my use of materials.
I feel that an important aspect in my work is a sensitivity to issues of gender and multiculturalism. Preparing exhibitions for ethnically diverse communities in Montreal has helped me to develop critical artistic skills. One facet of my philosophy is that one's life experience is also a part of one's art. My concern is to expand visual, conceptual, and temporal vocabulary in a continuum, rather than in opposition to modern and post-modern principles.
I stress the importance of inherent language, semantics, symbolism, and meaning, through the combination, juxtaposition and relationship between elements, which enables work to become alive visually.
I feel that an important aspect in my work is a sensitivity to issues of gender and multiculturalism. Preparing exhibitions for ethnically diverse communities in Montreal has helped me to develop critical artistic skills. One facet of my philosophy is that one's life experience is also a part of one's art. My concern is to expand visual, conceptual, and temporal vocabulary in a continuum, rather than in opposition to modern and post-modern principles.
I stress the importance of inherent language, semantics, symbolism, and meaning, through the combination, juxtaposition and relationship between elements, which enables work to become alive visually.
Recent Exhibitions: Maison de la Culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, 2013
Centaur Theatre, Montreal, 2013
Selected curated exhibitions
- L'été libre de l'art contemporain, Galerie de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (1990)
- Saskatchewan Symbiotics in the Visual Arts / Symbiose des arts visuels de la Saskatchewan, Maison de la Culture de la Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal in collaboration with Canada Council Art Bank / le Conseil des arts du Canada banque des oeuvres d'art (1992)
- Propositions sur Papier / Propositions on Paper (1994) & Héritage / Inheritance (1996) Centre Interculturel Strathearn (Montréal Arts Intercultural)
- Ligne, Point, Surface, 20 ans de dessin, Line, Point, Surface, 20 years of Drawing, with Russell T. Gordon, Concordia University, at Belgo Arts Contemporains, Montreal (1998)
Selected Publications
- Nuts and Bolts: Overcoming Obstacles in Creating Exhibitions, Muse, Canadian Museum Association, 2009
Museopathy, review, Muse, Canadian Museum Association (2005) - Cycling in Montréal / Le Vélo à Montréal, Chateau Ramezay Museum, Beaver Canadian History Magazine, Canadian Cyclist (2004)
- The Governor's Garden/le Jardin du gouverneur, Continuité (2004)
- Buying Canadian Art, The New Canadian Magazine (2003)
- Ligne, Point, Surface, 20 Years of Drawing / Line, Point, Surface, 20 ans de Dessin, in collaboration with Russell T. Gordon, exhibition catalogue, Concordia University (1998)
- Heritage / Inheritance, exhibition publication, Strathearn Intercultural Centre (1996)
- Douglas Buis, Fragmented Identity (1994) Vie des Arts
- Les Pays-Bas- cinquante ans aprés Mondrian (1995) Vie des Arts
- Trevor Goring, l'homme du forêt (1996) Vie des Arts
- Vachement Fafard (1997) Vie des Arts
- Britain's Millennium Museum Projects (1999) Vie des Arts
- Raymond Dupuis (1993) Espace-Sculpture
- Eva Brandyl, Faust les sortileges (1994) Espace-Sculpture
- Douglas Buis, Home and Oasis (1995) Espace-Sculpture
- Holland Museums and Sculpture (1995) Espace-Sculpture
- de la sculpture en Belgique (1996) Espace-Sculpture
- Big Rock Candy Mountain, NYC (1996) Espace-Sculpture
- Alphabets (2003) Art Focus
- Seymour Segal: The Power of Painting (2002) Art Focus
- Cloning and Metamorphosis (2001) Art Focus
- Photo Focus (1999) Art Focus
- The Tightrope between Art and Reality (1992) ETC. MT'L.
- Lois Andison: The Body as Glass; When Rolland Met Lan Ding (1993) ETC. MT'L.
- Artist-run Centres: Strengths, Assessments, Perspectives (1993) ETC. MT'L.
Research
- Contemporary Aboriginal Indigenous Art in Australia and Canada (2010-2012)
- Research in communications and development and promotion of artists and The Board of Montreal Museum Directors (Research and Development for the Montreal Museum Pass)
- Synthesis publication: Muse, Canadian Museum Association (1994)
Buying Canadian Art (excerpt)
Although the Canadian art market may appear comparatively restricted in terms of global considerations, Montreal is the city to which many dealers of art galleries look for both cutting edge art and blue chip investments. Investment art from Montreal is distributed to galleries in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria, and to corporate and private collectors, as well as public institutions. While Toronto leads the art market in transactions, as it does in business generally, the savoir faire of making and showcasing of art is at its best in Montreal. Toronto cutting edge art finds a devoted public in galleries around the Yorkville, Queens Quay Power Plant, Distillery District and Richmond areas.
In the international contemporary art market, Vancouver based photographer Jeff Wall figures among the top 50 artists collected internationally. Artists from the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Switzerland dominate that market. The Canadian art market, which extends from artist-run centres to commercial galleries, does business both nationally and internationally. Clients may find galleries on line, on location, by their established reputation or personal referral. This introduction to buying art in Canada focuses on art as investment, and intends to serve as a how-to-guide for shopping for Canadian artwork, for those with a taste for an immediate placement in terms of value and long term investment. It is directed at a public interested in art and art museum attractions.
The contemporary art market attracts amateurs, merchants, private and public collectors, investors and speculators to art fairs and auction houses such as Christies and Sothebys in Toronto. and Heffel in Vancouver and Montreal. Collecting art is an art unto itself, and depends on many factors, reflecting the tastes of the collector. As a financial investment, good contemporary art which, when chosen wisely, will reflect an increased return on value over time. While your occasion for buying art might not be now, or everyday, there are numerous venues to appreciate Canadian art in Montreal.
In the international contemporary art market, Vancouver based photographer Jeff Wall figures among the top 50 artists collected internationally. Artists from the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Switzerland dominate that market. The Canadian art market, which extends from artist-run centres to commercial galleries, does business both nationally and internationally. Clients may find galleries on line, on location, by their established reputation or personal referral. This introduction to buying art in Canada focuses on art as investment, and intends to serve as a how-to-guide for shopping for Canadian artwork, for those with a taste for an immediate placement in terms of value and long term investment. It is directed at a public interested in art and art museum attractions.
The contemporary art market attracts amateurs, merchants, private and public collectors, investors and speculators to art fairs and auction houses such as Christies and Sothebys in Toronto. and Heffel in Vancouver and Montreal. Collecting art is an art unto itself, and depends on many factors, reflecting the tastes of the collector. As a financial investment, good contemporary art which, when chosen wisely, will reflect an increased return on value over time. While your occasion for buying art might not be now, or everyday, there are numerous venues to appreciate Canadian art in Montreal.