11 Saturday Feb 2023
Posted in Exhibition | Exposition, News | Nouvelles, Paintings
Every 2 years I participate in the Alumni Exhibition at the Ottawa School of Art Orleans Campus Gallery. The Exhibition featured the work of 25 artists between Jan 9 and Feb 4, 2023.
Here are pictures taken during the Jan 15 Reception.
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Tous les 2 ans je participe à l’exposition des anciens de l’École d’art d’Ottawa. Celle-ci a réuni les oeuvres de 25 artistes entre les 9 janvier et 4 février 2023.
Voici les photos prises lors du vernissage du 15 janvier.
17 Thursday Nov 2016
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Last week-end, I went to what now feels like my personal pilgrimage, my annual rendezvous with local clay artists and friends: 260 Fingers (Glebe Community Centre, Ottawa). I usually peruse the aisles, mostly chatting with colleagues, longing for work by mentors and friends Leta and Don Cormier, checking out what other artists have been doing, discovering the year’s guests, wishing I was one of them some day, except that this year I came back with 2 pieces. Part of the reason I bought pieces this year is because I have been working as a Gallery Artist/Curator/Manager and I often hear people saying ”I’ll buy from you next time, next year…”, which always feels as a missed opportunity for both the artist and the potential collector. And I realized I had been doing the same for a few years, though to be fair I haven’t had any so-called “income” in a while being a full-time artist and mother to a toddler. This year though I allowed myself to indulge in buying art pieces I will treasure, while also choosing consciously to reinvest some of my earnings into the Arts Community.
I talked to Toronto artist Chiho Tokita, whose sculptures allude to functional work. I loved the fact that she works with coils and through addition and subtraction, constructs her pieces without the use of a mold. My favourite was the one that looked like a boat, of course…
This year, one of the guests’ work by Toronto artist Jeannie Pappas, reminded me of local artist Stefan Thompson, whose work I always found a little creepy but fascinating to look at. This is what I mean.
I was also pleasantly surprised by the direction artist Susie Osler is going. I knew of her colourful work but it never resonated with me as much as her series called “Objects for the hand and heart” does now. I can’t wait to see where it will lead her. The pieces are so tactile, soft like bones and antlers can be, “spirit-like” in their white porcelain body, cold to the touch, organic in their shape and “shamanic” in nature. Loved, loved, loved.
13 Wednesday Jul 2016
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Art Gallery, contemporain, contemporary, drawing, Gail Bourgeois, Ottawa, painting, Paula Murray, porcelain, porcelaine
While distributing pamphlets downtown at the Ottawa Art Gallery I visited the exhibitions of two of my friends/colleagues were having an exhibition this summer: Gail Bourgeois and Paula Murray.
“Correspondence” – From roots to rhizomes to mycelial networks – by Gail Bourgeois
June 4 – Sept. 18, 2016
I was particularly attracted to her abstract shapes on Mylar.
“You are me” by Paula Murray
June 24 – Sept. 25, 2016
Here a my favourite pieces. Guess why…
12 Sunday Jun 2016
Finally I found time to go to the Ottawa School of Art to use their movie editing software and put this interview together. Mind you the next day there was a giant sinkhole downtown right where I passed by to go home afterwards. Being an artist is risky business. 🙂
It is now up and running on my YouTube Channel. This was done last year during the opening of my end of Artist Residency at the Ottawa School of Art.
Dawn Dale, artist, friend and mentor, was kind enough to do it and did a great job. I’ll let you be the judge of it.
03 Friday Jun 2016
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I went for the first time to studiosixtysix which stands for the actual address of the Gallery (66 Muriel Street, Otttawa). There was a vernissage for emerging artist Alana Latincic. The show title was ”the game doesn’t start until you say YES”. It had digital prints of abstracted shapes of video game consoles, a video one could influence by using a game controller and 3D printed objects reminiscent of her printed images all pertaining to her exploration of the video game culture.
In the Gallery, there are a few professional studios and art practices as well as some walls that were showing works from recent past exhibitions. I found it was an interesting concept. It took a few pictures without the flash so they’re a bit dark.
25 Monday Apr 2016
Posted in Exhibition | Exposition, Pottery | Poterie, Sale | Vente, Sculpture
Here are some pictures of the Ottawa Guild of Potters Spring Sale that was held this week-end at the Horticulture building, Lansdowne Park (Ottawa). It is a beautiful venue. Congratulations to those who won prizes at the Exhibition part of the Sale!
21 Wednesday Oct 2015
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argile noire, Artwork, black and white, black clay, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, décoration, Exhibition, Exposition, hippocampe, Interview, Laguna Frost, noir et blanc, objet d'art, oeuvre d'art, Ottawa School of Art, Paula Murray, porcelain, porcelaine, sculpture, seahorse, YouTube
After a big Fall storm, some people were brave enough to come and have a chat during the Reception for my show at the Ottawa School of Art.
Fellow ceramic artist Hilde Lambrecht got me a wonderful bottle of wine with a Seahorse on it called “Promised Land”. It was very “À propos” for this show. Thanks Hilde! Thanks as well to all of those who showed up and those who have already visited and left a note in my book, as well as those who will come prior to Wednesday (when I’ll take it down).
A big thanks to Dawn Dale as well for graciously accepting to interview me for a YouTube video.
13 Tuesday Oct 2015
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argile noire, artist residency, Artwork, École d'art d'Ottawa, black and white, black clay, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, Exhibition, Exposition, Laguna Frost, Ottawa School of Art, porcelain, porcelaine
Last week on Wednesday I set up my Artist in Residence Exhibition. Here are the pictures of the show that will be in the Lee Matasi Gallery until October 21. Reception will be this Thursday evening. Unfortunately on of my pieces broke its tail during the week-end (most likely because part of it was mended with glaze prior to the second firing and it couldn’t hold part of the weight once attached on the wall, although it was attached o the wall in 3 different points). Oh well, lesson learned. It has also been advertised on the Ottawa School of Art Website.
Artist Statement:
“Seahorses are fascinating creatures that have long captured our imagination. Part chameleons with their independent eyes and ability to camouflage, part horses with the shape of their head and long neck and part monkey with their prehensile tail, these odd fish still hold many mysteries for scientists.
Seahorses are being harvested and decimated by the millions every year. When climate change and pollution threaten the natural habitat of these coastal-living animals, they are facing yet another challenge.
When your population is driven to the point of extinction, what do you do? Do you adapt, stay and fight? Do you migrate against your own nature? Where can you seek asylum in foreign territories? ”
04 Thursday Jun 2015
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Here are some pictures my parents took when they last visited the Ceramic Centre in Giroussens (Tarn) in April 2015.They were impressed and thought of my work when seeing Eliane Monnin’s work. For me they look more like my friend’s Hilde Lambrecht.
This exhibition was called “HORS SOCLE la céramique quitte son piédestal… et suite sur socle”, which would translate like “OFF THE PEDESTAL ceramics leaves its pedestal… and the rest on the pedestal. I doesn’t make much sense in French either. 🙂
List of the artists who presented their work: Nathalie Doyen, Éliane Monnin, Jane Norbury, Rachèle Rivière et Maarten Stuer.
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Voici des photos prises par mes parents lors de leur dernière visite au Centre Céramique de Giroussens (Tarn) en avril 2015. Ils ont été impressioné et ont pensé moi pour les oeuvres d’Eliane Monnin qui à moi me font penser à celles de mon amie Hilde Lambrecht.
Cette exposition avait pour titre “HORS SOCLE la céramique quitte son piédestal… et suite sur socle”. Drôle de titre. 🙂
Liste des artistes qui présentaient leur travail : Nathalie Doyen, Éliane Monnin, Jane Norbury, Rachèle Rivière et Maarten Stuer.
23 Saturday May 2015
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Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, Entrevue, Exhibition, Exposition, Laguna Frost, Liana Voia, YouTube
This gallery contains 15 photos.
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