Monk Bridge
2013
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Viaduct (day)
2013
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Viaduct (night)
2013
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Briand st.
2013
Flashe on panel
63.4 x 48.4 cm
Lac Bouchette
2013
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Frost
2014
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Around 1990, I began making paintings depicting aspects of the art world. This series titled Paintings about Art, looks at art in the same way as a still life. The paintings depict art in various locations from artists’ studios, to storage facilities, to art galleries, to personal collections, to museum exhibitions, etc. I am interested in looking at art and how it is defined by context. Dan Flavin’s fluorescent fixtures are invested with completely different meanings because of context, whether it is a hardware store or a museum. The art in its context can be either homogenous or jarring. It is this point of transformation that interests me. The paintings offer a multifaceted view of a world within the world. One painting, Crate with Dan Graham Sculpture (C.C.A.), shows a Dan Graham work during installation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. The painting depicts the piece halfway between transportation and exhibition.
As I work from my own photographs, the current series hinges on the intersection between painting and photography. The relation of photography to painting has always been a source of fascination. The photograph is also an indispensable tool for the paintings. The paintings reveal a deadpan image with a minimum of subjective editorializing. The paintings are small, approximately 20 x 30 to 50 x 70 cm. The size offers an inversion and contestation of the overstatement in so much contemporary art. They are painted on Baltic plywood panels with flashe paint, a form of vinyl gouache that has very brilliant matte colours. This physical aspect of the work is very important.
Cave Tour
2014
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Spiral Jetty
2014
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Lightning Field
2013
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Double Negative
2012
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Michel de Broin (the Quebec Triennale, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal)
2008
Flashe on panel
52 x 41.5 cm
Pink Light (Frankfurt)
2008
Flashe on panel
19 x 24 cm
Richter at Ludwig
2009
Flashe on panel
23 x 18 cm
Taubenbrunnen 1
2009
Flashe on panel
46.2 x 63.5 cm
Classroom
2007
Flashe on panel
51.5 x 34.5 cm
Dan Flavin (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa)
2007
Flashe on panel
54.5 x 42 cm
Place des Arts Metro Station
2008
Flashe on panel
49 x 61.8 cm
Museum with Orange Telephone (Budapest)
2005
Flashe on panel
15.2 x 20.3 cm
Museum with Pink Walls (Budapest)
2005
Flashe on panel
20 x 16.3 cm
Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks (NewYork)
2005
Flashe on panel
20.3 x 15.2 cm
Empire
2006
Flashe on panel
21.5 x 28.9 cm
Jean-Pierre Gaultier at MOCCA, Toronto #2
2006
Flashe on panel
30 x 22 cm
Maman #3 (Ottawa)
2006
Flashe on panel
28.8 x 22.7 cm
Maman #7
2007
Flashe on panel
25.5 x 26 cm
Hallway, Okono Building, Tokyo, #1
2007
Flashe on panel
23.8 x 18 cm
Collection, Banques Nationale
2007
Flashe on panel
68.5 x 51 cm
Gunter Forg, Frankfurt
2007
Flashe on panel
60 x 42.2 cm
Joseph Bueys(Chelsea)
2003
Flashe on panel
26 x 26 cm
Rodney Graham (MAC)
2007
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Brian Jungen Sculpture (Montreal)
2006
Flashe on panel
17.8 x 20.3 cm
Crate with Dan Graham Sculpture, CCA (Montreal)
2003
Flashe on panel
15.2 x 20.3 cm
Studio with Cat
2002
Flashe on panel
15.2 x 20.3 cm
Documentation
2003
Flashe on panel
20,3 x 15.2 cm
Frank Stella at Bernard Jacobson 2 (London)
2002
Flashe on panel
15.2 x 20.3 cm
Wood shop(Dominion Gallery)
1993
20.32 x 15.24
Gouache on Paper
Paint Table
1986
121.92 x 243.84
Oil on Canvas
In 2009 I was commissioned to do a series of 12 paintings for an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. As the Paintings About Art had focussed on art in a context, usually architecture, this was a chance to focus on the architecture. The museum had a personal connection to me. As a child, I had been had taken to see exhibitions by my aunt. I had attended the School of Art and Design of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 1972 to 1975. During the summer of 1973 I worked for the museum, moving art as they prepared for an expansion of the original building.
I am interested in how the edifice of an institution has now become a “work of art”, from the de Young Museum to the Guggenheim, Bilbao to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
The paintings were then hung throughout the museum creating a dialog with the actual space and activating transitional passages connecting the different pavilions. During this period I also made a series of ink wash drawings of the museum, Outer Space.
Avenue du Musée
2009
Flashe on panel
62.6 x 44.2 cm
Corridor (Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion)
2009
Flashe on panel
48.4 x 63.4 cm
Ducts (Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion)
2010
Flashe on panel
44.3 x 60.8
Ghost 2 (Jean-Nöel Desmarais Pavilion)
2010
Flashe on panel
63 x 45 cm
Scaffold (Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion)
2010
Flashe on panel
62.6 x 44.2 cm
Ceiling (Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion)
2010
Flashe on panel
45 x 63 cm
Staircase (Jean-Nöel Desmarais Pavilion)
2010
Flashe on panel
62.6 x 44.2 cm
Atrium (Jean-Nöel Desmarais Pavilion)
2011
Flashe on panel
62.6 x 44.2 cm
4th Floor (Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion)
2011
Flashe on panel
62.6 x 44.2 cm
Model (Jean-Nöel Desmarais Pavilion)
2010
Flashe on panel
45 x 63 cm
Revolving Door (Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion)
2011
Flashe on panel
63 x 48 cm
The Norton Staircase (Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion)
2011
Flashe on panel
63 x 63 cm
Panmorphic paintings show a simultaneous 360 degree view. The idea came from paintings of entire rooms onto plaster spheres. In 1996, I started photographing 360 degree environments for these sphere paintings. It took approximately 48 photographs to do this. I would then collage the photos to reassemble the space. The collages became very interesting as to the various ways the image could be combined. I started drawing and painting these images as two dimensional works that contain an immersive environment into a simultaneous view.
Brown Studio
2002
Flashe on board
244 x 244 cm
Brown Studio (small)
2002
Flashe on board
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Brown Studio
1996
Graphite on Paper
76 x 56 cm
Ottawa, (Snowfall)
2002
Flashe on Panel
243.84 x 243.84 cm
4060 St. Laurent
2002
Flashe on Panel
243.84 x 243.84 cm
Installation view, McLure Gallery, Westmount, 2002
Elevator
2001
Flashe on panel
30.5 x 23 cm
Les Halles
1996
Gouache on Paper
30.48 x 30.48 cm
4419 St. Urbain st. (Studio)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st. (Bathroom)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st. (Studio)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st. (Studio)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st. (Bedroom)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st. (Bedroom)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st. (Living Room)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st. (Living Room)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st. (Spare Room)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st. (Spare Room)
1993
Gouache on plaster
15.24 cm diameter
4419 St. Urbain st.
1993
Mixed Media
152.4 x 121.92 x 30.48 cm
Catalogue 11, 2020, 120 x 120 cm.
Exhibition Galerie Bellemare/Lambert, 2018