About 5

Bio

I grew up in the 80’s in the suburbs of Montreal, Canada. I loooooved Boy George. I was the kind of kid that watched the same movies over and over again (I still do). I come from a family of artists. Musicians on my mother side, and painters on my father's side.
Art is what I love to do.
I also like TV, animals, rock’n’roll and pizza.

Artistic process:

I take a lot of pictures. Like, a ton of pictures. Of all things that catch my attention. Some of them spark an idea for a painting.

I mostly use acrylic. I paint directly on the surface with bold colors. By focusing on shapes, the subject is reduced to its formal element and becomes abstract. I paint all the elements of one color, then all the elements of a second color, and so on and so forth. It’s like painting by numbers without a drawing to follow. By doing so, I provoke distortions, simplifications, overlaps, omissions. I enjoy the surprise of that first layer. The painting becomes its own narrative. Finally, I figure out how to balance out beauty and oddity, detailed and simplified, mastered and raw.

I think consciously about visual language when I paint; shapes, colors, textures, composition. I don't think about the meaning of the image during the process. I trust that the final painting will have enough elements, and enough space in between those elements, for the viewer to project their own thoughts and questions onto the painting.

In retrospect, I see the following themes surfacing over and over again: spectacle/spectator, relationships, strength/vulnerability, mortality/memory, time, metamorphosis, paranormal, mysterious, monsters, hybrids, mythology.

2002-2006 - Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University

2008-2011 - Creation Workshops, Les Impatients

2009-2010 - Board member, Articule

2009-2011 - Fundraising Committee member, Articule

Exhibitions

2001 - Intercollégiale juried exhibition, la Malbaie

2005 - Red, VMA Gallery Concordia

2006 - Undergraduate annual juried exhibition, Art-Mûr

2009 - Artartar, Articule

2010 - Plage des membres, Articule

2011 - Bad art, le Boui-Boui