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Moth Excursion
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Worlds Unseen
Natasha Chaykowski
It’s strange to look at a high definition photograph of red blood cells. They appear otherworldly and supple, formal and punctuated: so different...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
South from high school study
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shadow
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Black and White Arena
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Le Poséidon
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa combines photography and painting in his production. In 2018, he defended a doctoral thesis at UQAM where he questioned the role of digital devic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
As listening III
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s paintings in Between the Notes share a faithfulness to a soft colour palette of sky blues, mauves, peaches, roses and whites, reminiscent of a pastel-coloured youth...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Confluence I
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s paintings in Between the Notes share a faithfulness to a soft colour palette of sky blues, mauves, peaches, roses and whites, reminiscent of a pastel-coloured youth...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Building on Tupper
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled #3
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Counterintuitive
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Moat, Green Water and Rope
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Le trou
By Eric Lamontagne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Interaction with one of Lamontagne’s works is, simply put, a surreal experience. By using one of several points of entrance, viewers are permitted to experience multiple views of com...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Some Thoughts
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Œillet 04 (diptych)
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa uses his immediate surroundings as his subject matter. Gobaa presents recognizable flora in a disembodied context, and the result is at once familiar and jarring. As of la...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Œillet 02
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa uses his immediate surroundings as his subject matter. Gobaa presents recognizable flora in a disembodied context, and the result is at once familiar and jarring. As of la...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tilleul 03
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa uses his immediate surroundings as his subject matter. Gobaa presents recognizable flora in a disembodied context, and the result is at once familiar and jarring. As of la...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Strangely Prescient
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else?
Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north.
An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made.
Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent.
Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Leave It Be
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else?
Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north.
An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made.
Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent.
Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper, a rusted stove—is juxtaposed with the soft glow of a yellow circle. This continues Houston’s ongoing use of colour to question the particulars of perception.
Heritage of All, White with Greed and Iron, and The Spaces we Breath, Houston’s titles read like lines of a haiku. Composed as prose, they are also confrontational, mapping out the cultural and environmental impacts of the extraction of resources in the Arctic. We witness scenes of violent decay, and yet simply carry on, like Business As Usual. In What Nations Come and Go a pale purple oval nearly fills the frame, revealing only in the very far right a simple cabin in front of a rocky incline. A similar imposing cloud of colour, this time blue, dominates the landscape in Mapped, Claimed, and Evaluated.
The north is just as much an idea as it is a place, and is one that looms large in the Canadian imagination. There are few better examples than Glenn Gould...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Scorch
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else?
Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north.
An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made.
Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent.
Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Exquisite Resting Place
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
y painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from l...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Vapour II
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s dabs & systems explores the connections, similarities and differences between the handmade and the digital. Taken from the foundation of the artist’s practice of ex...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Echoes I
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s dabs & systems explores the connections, similarities and differences between the handmade and the digital. Taken from the foundation of the artist’s practice of ex...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
System IV
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s dabs & systems explores the connections, similarities and differences between the handmade and the digital. Taken from the foundation of the artist’s practice of ex...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
System I
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s dabs & systems explores the connections, similarities and differences between the handmade and the digital. Taken from the foundation of the artist’s practice of ex...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Large Ragged Gloves (Triptych)
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The themes visited in this show stem from a desire to extend the vocabulary of my painting while forming a metaphor for the chaos of contemporary life.
The title, Escalade, has differing and complimentary functions in English and French. Continuing to paint, over a lengthening career, the medium poses more questions than answers. The title is a reference to my attempt to overcome these difficulties through the expansion of my painting language. The title also refers to the escalation of crises in the world at large. It is the larger picture in which I am a small person trying to make my way.
In a concrete sense, the title also refers to a strategy I have taken in a number of these paintings. That is, to re-examine very small paintings...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Other
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The themes visited in this show stem from a desire to extend the vocabulary of my painting while forming a metaphor for the chaos of contemporary life.
The title, Escalade, has differing and complimentary functions in English and French. Continuing to paint, over a lengthening career, the medium poses more questions than answers. The title is a reference to my attempt to overcome these difficulties through the expansion of my painting language. The title also refers to the escalation of crises in the world at large. It is the larger picture in which I am a small person trying to make my way.
In a concrete sense, the title also refers to a strategy I have taken in a number of these paintings. That is, to re-examine very small paintings...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scream
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The themes visited in this show stem from a desire to extend the vocabulary of my painting while forming a metaphor for the chaos of contemporary life.
The title, Escalade, has differing and complimentary functions in English and French. Continuing to paint, over a lengthening career, the medium poses more questions than answers. The title is a reference to my attempt to overcome these difficulties through the expansion of my painting language. The title also refers to the escalation of crises in the world at large. It is the larger picture in which I am a small person trying to make my way.
In a concrete sense, the title also refers to a strategy I have taken in a number of these paintings. That is, to re-examine very small paintings...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Longing
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Talking Hills
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Straining to Hear
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
It’s Really Very Easy
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A shout of joy
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Nobel's new works, overlapping shapes, rhythm and movement interact with grid systems to give both order and fluidity. The gridded images offer a sense of expansion towards or int...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Acrylic
Venus&Venus
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa combines photography and painting in his production. In 2018, he defended a doctoral thesis at UQAM where he questioned the role of digital devices in the artistical creat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Venus&Venus
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa combines photography and painting in his production. In 2018, he defended a doctoral thesis at UQAM where he questioned the role of digital devices in the artistical creat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Outskirts
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Vomiting Figure
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Ropes, Fire and Trees
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Talking to Ourselves
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mesmerized
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Double sous le soleil
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa combines photography and painting in his production. In 2018, he defended a doctoral thesis at UQAM where he questioned the role of digital devices in the artistical creat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Renne
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa combines photography and painting in his production. In 2018, he defended a doctoral thesis at UQAM where he questioned the role of digital devic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New notes
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s paintings in Between the Notes share a faithfulness to a soft colour palette of sky blues, mauves, peaches, roses and whites, reminiscent of a pastel-coloured youth...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Soft Break
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s paintings in Between the Notes share a faithfulness to a soft colour palette of sky blues, mauves, peaches, roses and whites, reminiscent of a pastel-coloured youth...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
As listening I
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s paintings in Between the Notes share a faithfulness to a soft colour palette of sky blues, mauves, peaches, roses and whites, reminiscent of a pastel-coloured youth...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
As listening II
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s paintings in Between the Notes share a faithfulness to a soft colour palette of sky blues, mauves, peaches, roses and whites, reminiscent of a pastel-coloured youth...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Breaks in the light
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Christine’s work, precise grid systems give both order and fluidity. Evoking a vast plane of vision and possibility, the field of horizontal and vertical lines are a foundation fo...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Night vision
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Christine’s work, precise grid systems give both order and fluidity. Evoking a vast plane of vision and possibility, the field of horizontal and vertical lines are a foundation fo...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Swaying notes
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Christine’s work, precise grid systems give both order and fluidity. Evoking a vast plane of vision and possibility, the field of horizontal and vertical lines are a foundation fo...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Post
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Median
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Molson Park
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Island
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Near and Far
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Bottle Garden
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Blue Skies Forever
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Bending Roads and Targets
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Small Yellow City
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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