Agnes Baillon Art

Nicholas Crombach (BFA, 2012) is an artist working in Kingston Ontario. Crombach has been awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. His solo exhibition, Behind Elegantly Carved Wooden Doors, was presented at Art Mûr...

"This indoor figurative pop art table top sculpture is made from resin. Playful, colourful and imaginative, Viktor Mitic’s latest series of unique sculptures appear to merge pop art...

Text by Nancy Webb It’s Saturday night and Karine Payette is in her studio. We meander into a conversation about the dog she used to have and her soft spot for German shepherds, an intensely obedient and loyal breed in a deceivingly wolf-like package. Payette’s most recent series of photographs, sculptures and video work seem to speak directly to this preoccupation with the multifaceted nature of human-animal relationships—the dialogues of control, intimacy, violence and domestication that subtly take place on an interspecies level. Her workspace is part laboratory, part prop closet—a bowl of fur sits not far from her computer. Somehow in this bright, open, chemical-clean scented room, Payette conjures wildness. We are taken to a strange place, the borderlands of interspecies mingling. At one extreme of the animal-human dynamics scale is the stalwart compliance of a professionally trained German shepherd who responds to commands with robotic precision. Here, power is comfortably held by an off-screen voice, animality pacified by a set of linguistic prompts. At the other end of the scale is a sculpture of a human figure clad in red, sharing a languorous kiss with a wolf. The story of Little Red Riding Hood is immediately called to mind, except that here our hooded protagonist seems to have bailed on grandmother’s orders, instead opting for a forest floor make-out with her canine stalker. This taboo mise-en-scène is a brazen inquiry into the boundaries we maintain with our animal counterparts. Its scale and three-dimensionality contribute to a feeling of immersion that the artist has been courting with her work for the past several years. It feels as though you’ve just walked in on something: you are implicated and your discomfort is like an invisible mist that coats these inanimate beings. Elsewhere in Payette’s suite of anthropomorphic works, the demarcation between species grows even fainter. A photographic series depicts the slow encroachment of fur, scales and feathers on human skin—a striking process of contamination facilitated by touch. The fusion of flesh, charcoal cat fur and a pale silky dress...

Working in a range of materials— wood, epoxy, metal, and found materials— Walter Robinson hand-fabricates and assembles objects, signage and tableaux that investigate the mechanics o...

Divyendu Anand - Piscine, 2023 Patinated Bronze, Oxidised Bronze over Stone Composite Granite Base Edition 1 of 5 H 33 x W 24 x D 14 inches Growing up with the thoughts of altruism,...

Divyendu Anand - Conch Shell - The Sound of Infinity Edition : 6/9 Metal Skin Over Composite of Stone Glass and Polyester Resin Granite H 18 x W 10.5 x D 13 inches, 2021 Growing up ...

Divyendu Anand - Primodial Awareness Edition 3 of 9 Oxidised Bronze over Stone Composite Granite Base H 30 x W 24 x D 24 inches Growing up with the thoughts of altruism, idealism an...

Divyendu Anand - The Zen Tree, Edition 9 / 9 Oxidised Bronze over Stone Composite Granite Base H 34 x W 13.5 x D 9.5 inches, 2021 Growing up with the thoughts of altruism, idealism ...

S. K. Sahajahan - Untitled - 54 x 72 inches, 2018 Mixed Media on Canvas Sahajahan’s work explores his physical surroundings through figurative contexts. Utilizing texture and and t...

S. K. Sahajahan - Untitled - 54 x 60 inches, 2018 Mixed Media on Canvas Sahajahan’s work explores his physical surroundings through figurative contexts. Utilizing texture and and t...

S. K. Sahajahan - Untitled - 42 x 72 inches, 2018 Mixed Media on Canvas Sahajahan’s work explores his physical surroundings through figurative contexts. Utilizing texture and and t...

Enrique Gomez de Molina’s sculptures are fascinating, humorous and unsettling. He uses the parts of once living animals that he purchases online and from vendors and farmers. But unl...