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Item Ships From: Montreal
The Greening
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
The Long View
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
I Wonder Will We Really Remember
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the digital age, we collectively photograph everything all of the time. But how much does anyone remember from a scene or a moment when looking at a digital photo? Someone could g...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
for intérieur – sang 2
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Patrick Beaulieu’s multi-disciplined practice creates finely tuned and subtle gestures that aim to re-focus our attention on the physical world that we see and experience. In convers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Trinity
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Following his first post-secondary degree in Fine Arts in 1994, he trained as a cabinet-maker and completed an apprenticeship in antique restoration. He was co-founder of a successfu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Something More Than This
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the digital age, we collectively photograph everything all of the time. But how much does anyone remember from a scene or a moment when looking at a digital photo? Someone could g...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Word World
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Collage of photographs and Pantone color swatches on paper
Suspended in a Sunbeam, is a series of mixed-media works that span Jessica Houston’s decade-long engagement with the Canad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Nothing of This Remains
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
It is within the locality of the dream where we are at once sentient of ourselves within a multitude of reflections. The momentary awareness of self reveals transitions between those...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Metal
Étendue: Hommage à Charles Gagnon
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
It is within the locality of the dream where we are at once sentient of ourselves within a multitude of reflections. The momentary awareness of self reveals transitions between those...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Enamel
Mer de Tazmanie, Australie
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Transitions
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Episodic / Épisodique consists of the continuation of my most recent photographic production, which explores the possibilities of representing the abstract contemplative sensation wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Entre nous V
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Twilit Smoke
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
C Print
Looking forward
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Collage of photographs and Pantone color swatches on paper
Suspended in a Sunbeam, is a series of mixed-media works that span Jessica Houston’s decade-long engagement with the Canad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
This Wayward Floating Body
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Ocean Pacifique, NZ
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Ingrained
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Milford sound, NZ
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
The Darker Stage of Dusk
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
C Print
Quiet Monument
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King’s photographs draw from memories of landscapes, and reference film, art and literature. Her images are cinematic and striking, seemingly rea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Yesterday’s Faded
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Episodic / Épisodique consists of the continuation of my most recent photographic production, which explores the possibilities of representing the abstract contemplative sensation wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Keeping An Eye on Things
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a relic of Sir John Frankl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Signs of disorientation
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
During the summer of 2017 and 2018, Patrick Beaulieu realized the performative excursion EL PERDIDO. Travelling with the geographer Alexis Pernet on board a 1977 Dodge camper van, th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Golden Haze
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A viewer standing in front of the work of Henri Venne might feel simultaneously at home and confused. A seamless merging of photographic and painterly elements, Venne's images at onc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Shipwreck
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Signs of disorientation
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
During the summer of 2017 and 2018, Patrick Beaulieu realized the performative excursion EL PERDIDO. Travelling with the geographer Alexis Pernet on board a 1977 Dodge camper van, th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Waiting for the Colour of Spring
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A viewer standing in front of the work of Henri Venne might feel simultaneously at home and confused. A seamless merging of photographic and painterly elements, Venne's images at onc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
VHF Iceland
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Elevation 2
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the digital age, we collectively photograph everything all of the time. But how much does anyone remember from a scene or a moment when looking at a digital photo? Someone could g...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Signs of disorientation
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
During the summer of 2017 and 2018, Patrick Beaulieu realized the performative excursion EL PERDIDO. Travelling with the geographer Alexis Pernet on board a 1977 Dodge camper van, th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
World Beyond the Water
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Amber Berson
Canadian photographer Holly King’s Mangrove series is an investigation into the artist’s own subconscious. The photographs border on the uncanny, although never uncomfortably so. Instead, her preternatural compositions engage the viewer’s curiosity – the viewer is not sure how to approach, and yet is drawn to do so. At times the images are reflective, occasionally disquieting and always thought provoking. The twisted roots of the mangrove forests that form the base of this series provide an entry point for an investigation into the shadowy parts of the artist’s imagination.
The differences between what we know to be real and what we perceive as real are often slight. The work of Holly King stems from an attempt to prevail over the uncharted territory of both her imagination and that which is perceived as true. In her creations, King endeavours to understand her subconscious mindscape as manifested through photographs recalling actual landscapes.
This new series, stemming from earlier pieces also focused on roots, reflects King’s interest in drawing, in the linear subject and in geometric abstraction. It is a move away from previous series – despite the photographic medium in which King works, her oeuvre has contained a certain painterly quality. These new photographs tend to melt into themselves, drawing the viewer in and letting the imagination drift. The Mangrove series causes the viewer to approach with at a slower pace, to investigate deeply into the darker nooks and crannies and to attempt to find reason within a work that so clearly plays with our understanding of real and imaginary.
Nothing is incidental in King’s photographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Never Know If It’s Real
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the digital age, we collectively photograph everything all of the time. But how much does anyone remember from a scene or a moment when looking at a digital photo? Someone could g...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Fjord, NZ
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
VFH NZ 3
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
With the Eye of Faith
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Crowned Seascape
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elevation 3
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the digital age, we collectively photograph everything all of the time. But how much does anyone remember from a scene or a moment when looking at a digital photo? Someone could g...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Dusking Time, Sphere
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
C Print
Horizon #4
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Horizon #3
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Horizon #1
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Nuit blanche à Chicago
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
It is the luminous colours of Michel Piquette’s works that first catch the eye. His chromatic circles that stir up vision take root in an aesthetic tradition a few decades old alread...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Aluminum
Alter / Altered
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
It is within the locality of the dream where we are at once sentient of ourselves within a multitude of reflections. The momentary awareness of self reveals transitions between those...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Metal
Still life #3
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
C Print
You Should Have Seen What I’ve Seen
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
But It Won’t Last Forever
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Henri Venne was born in Joliette in 1966 but now lives and works in Montreal. Since 1994, he has been showing his artwork, a combination of semi-abstract photography and painting, in solo and group shows throughout many galleries and museums in Quebec. Some of his most important shows include his solo exhibitions (D’)après nature (after nature) in 2004 at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Arts and still life in 2006 at Art Mûr gallery, which represents him in Montreal. He holds a masters degree from Concordia University in Fine Arts (1999) and now teaches art classes at Vanier and André Grasset Colleges, University of Montreal’s Department of Cultural Activities and also at Art Neuf Cultural Center. His work is now part of many collections, namely the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Arts, the Canada Council Art Bank, la Collection Prêt d’oeuvres d’art du Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec, of Loto-Québec and Fasken Martineau-Dumoulin (Montreal) and also in private collections. Henri Venne has been awarded grants by both the Canada Art Council and the Quebec Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
The Place Of Many Fish
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a relic of Sir John Frankl...
Category
2010s Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Crossing The Line
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a relic of Sir John Frankl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mean Weather
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a relic of Sir John Frankl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nuit blanche à Tokyo
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Michel Piquette: chromatic cities
By Anaïs Castro
It is the luminous colours of Michel Piquette’s works that first catch the eye. His chromatic circles...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Aluminum
The Sun Shines Cold
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Plasma 5
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Informed by microbiology, Laurent Lamarche’s sculptural installations and photographic production look like living unidentified microorganisms. Its narrative is ambiguous, constantly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Montreal - Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital Pigment
Untitled
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In a series of portraits documenting the body in nature, Isaac’s model dons a fantastical mask — one side overgrown with fledgling greenery while the other half conjures a ghost of t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Untitled
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In a series of portraits documenting the body in nature, Isaac’s model dons a fantastical mask — one side overgrown with fledgling greenery while the other half conjures a ghost of t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Untitled
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In a series of portraits documenting the body in nature, Isaac’s model dons a fantastical mask — one side overgrown with fledgling greenery while the other half conjures a ghost of t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Untitled
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In a series of portraits documenting the body in nature, Isaac’s model dons a fantastical mask — one side overgrown with fledgling greenery while the other half conjures a ghost of t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
The Faraway Nearby
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Capacity to Self-Organize
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
Taking Possession
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
A Life of Its Own
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jessica Houston has traveled from pole to pole—using photography, painting, oral histories and objects—to evoke natureculture entanglements. Her multimedia projects often include sit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Photography
Materials
Digital
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