Erika Adams

Erika Adams, born in Seattle, Washington, is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in printmaking. She earned a BA in both Art and Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz, an MFA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and studied at the Tamarind Institute where she became a Master Printer. Now an Associate Professor of Art at Concordia University in Monreal, Adams’s work has been shown at numerous national and international exhibitions. She was an artist in residence at the Hall Farm Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Frans Masereel Center in Belgium, Penland School of Craft and Djerassi, AIR Serenbe, Atelier Imago in New Brunswick and NSCAD in Nova Scotia. Her studio practice focuses on locating the self within a larger context, particularly in relation to place, family and community. Her work explores how meaning is embedded in form and text and is inspired by insect societies, flocks of birds, wrestlers, poetry and everyday interactions.  

St-Laurent

2017 | 55 x 82 cm | Relief prints on panels | 2 prints

francis bacon

Francis Bacon was born in 1909 in Dublin, Ireland. He grew up both in Ireland and the United Kingdom where he spent most of his adult life. Widely renowned for his portraits and depictions of the human figure, Bacon is undoubtedly one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. Both classical and modern influences converge in his paintings which present visceral depictions of physicality combined with a powerful, often angst-ridden, psychological component.

His work, received with both unease and acclaim in the early forties, would later be purchased by many major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Gallery in London. In 1954, Bacon shared the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale with artists Lucian Freud and Ben Nicholson. By the 1970’s and 1980’s major exhibitions and retrospectives of Bacon’s work were being presented in France, Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, Japan, the USA and the USSR. Francis Bacon died in 1992 while on a visit to Madrid, Spain.

Julius baltazar

Born in Paris in 1949, Julius Baltazar was noticed in his youth by Salvador Dali who took the budding artist under his wing and encouraged him to pursue his artistic career.

The works of Julius Baltazar, a mix of printmaking and painting, usually feature elements of intaglio printing, ink drawing and Arlequin pencil. A deep interest in literature led the artist to illustrate over three hundred works of poetry. The artist's work is featured in many important public collections in Canada, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan and France.

hans beLLmer

Hans Bellmer was born in Kattowitz, then part of the German empire, on the 13rd of March 1902. The artist is best known for creating life-sized sculptures of erotic dolls. Historians also consider him a surrealist photographer.

His dolls are a statement on the cult of the female body, a popular theme in Nazi Germany. However, his response was to cut up, mutilate and present the dolls in unconventional poses. The Nazis declared his work as «degenerate» and he was forced to leave the country. He relocates to Paris where his work is accepted especially by the surrealists who appreciate the themes of sexuality and feminine beauty.

Bellmer spends the rest of his life in Paris and replaces doll making with etchings and erotic drawings. He also explores printmaking, photography and painting while retaining the theme of explicit sexuality, especially in young women.

Louis-pierre bougie

Louis-Pierre Bougie was born in Trois Rivieres in 1946 and studied in France at l'Atelier Champfleury and also with Lacourière and Frélaut.

He actively participates in the development of printmaking in Quebec by opening up his private Montreal studio to visitors around the world. He is also a founding member of l'Atelier Circulaire in Montreal. His work is part of many public and private collections in France and Canada and he has won many prizes for his talent as a printmaker.

Untitled 4

1994 | 37 x 106 cm | Chine collé, aquatint and burin

Untitled 17

2008 | 54 x 101 cm | Aquatint

Untitled 18

2008 | 54 x 101 cm | Aquatint

guillaume brisson-darveau

Guillaume Brisson-Darveau lives in Montreal and holds a Master's degree in Visual Arts from Laval University (Quebec, Canada)  He also began a Ph.D. program in Arts Studies and Practices last year at the UQAM (Montreal, Canada). His work was presented in Canada, Germany, Chile, Switzerland, Scotland, Spain and Japan.  Notably as part of the exhibition Dobles de proximidad at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (2018, Chile), Art Souterrain (2017, Canada), the NEoN Digital Arts Festival (2016, Scotland) and through his collaborations at nachtspeicher23 (2018, Germany), Diagonale (2013, Canada) and Arprim (2012, Canada). He was involved in numerous artist residencies in Canada and abroad, such as Atelier Mondial (Switzerland, 2018), Est-Nord-Est (2016, Canada) and the Banff Center (2015, Canada). His work has received support by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec in the last years.

Jean-Michel Cropsal

Jean Michel Cropsal was born in Morocco and there he spent his childhood. In France he studied and works for the theatre: sets and costumes. He came to Canada in 1975 and continues his work for the theatre and dance. He also designed and made clothes. Throughout these years he continuously drew, painted and engraved. He held solo exhibitions and participated in group events in various places and numerous galleries in Canada, Morocco and France. For 20 years, he has been a member of the Atelier Circulaire.

Sans titre

2017 | 27 x 38 cm | Aquatint, etching and drypoint | 7 prints

 Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí is a painter, printmaker and sculptor of Spanish nationality, who was born in 1904 and died in 1989. He is one of the best known representatives of surrealism, to which he became associated in the 1920s, on the advice of Joan Miró. After an American period, during World War II, he returned to Spain in 1949 and remained there until his death. Excluded from the surrealist movement, he moved closer to Catholicism and developed an approach he called "corpuscular mysticism". The recurring themes in his work include sexuality, dreams, religion and his wife Gala, who was his muse for a long time.

CYNTHIA DINAN-Michell

Cynthia Dinan-Mitchell holds a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from Concordia University (2002) and a Master's degree in Visual Arts from Laval University (2007). She has exhibited her work throughout Canada in a variety of galleries and artists’ centres, including Montreal, Quebec and Jonquières. 

pierre durette

Pierre Durette received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2006. As a student, his print media work earned him the Grand Prix Albert Dumouchel in 2004 and he was the winner of the Projet Insertion contest at Atelier Graff in 2005.

The artist’s works have been included in many exhibitions in Quebec and Ontario, most notably at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and at The Power Plant in Toronto. Recipient of the Marcel Bellerive grant for excellence, Pierre Durette received a project grant from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec in 2009. Originally from Causapscal in the Gaspé region.

Max Ernst

Max Ernst is a painter, printmaker, collagist and sculptor, who was born in Brühl in 1891 and who died in Paris in 1976. He was first associated with the dadaist and surrealist movements, from 1919 to 1938, a period during which he befriended writers like Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard and André Breton, as well as artists like Joan Miró and Alberto Giacometti. He moved to the United States during World War II, where he lived until 1953. There he continued his work as an artist, particularly devoting himself to dripping, which heralded the work of Jackson Pollock. He returned to finish his life in France, where he devoted himself more to engraving, notably with Georges Visat in Paris, as well as at the Pierre Chave workshop in Vence.

1975 | 55 x 42 cm | Aquatint, etching and lithography | Editor Georges Visat

Catherine Farish

Catherine Farish is originally from London, England. She received a diploma from l'École des Beaux Arts de Montréal as well as a bachelor of fine arts from Concordia in 1983. To complete her studies in etching, she went to Paris and was a student at l'atelier Le Blanc.

The artist has had over 25 solo shows abd has also been part of numerous collective shows across North America, Europe and Asia. Her works are also part of numerous collections in Canada and the United States.

Marc Garneau

Born in Thetford Mines in 1956, Marc Garneau has been practising printmaking and painting for more than 40 years in Montreal, where he lives and works. His work has been featured in about 60 solo exhibitions and is included in important public collections, including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la Biennale du dessin, de l’estampe et du papier matière du Québec. 

Untitled 1

2019 | 38 x 29 cm | Carborundum and drypoint

Untitled 2

2019 | 38 x 29 cm | Carborundum and drypoint

John Heward

John Heward was born on July 31, 1934 in Montreal and died in the same city on November 6, 2018. A graduate of Bishops University, winner of the 2012 Paul-Émile Borduas Award, Heward participated in numerous group exhibitions during his career in Canada and the United States, in addition to having the honour of solo exhibitions in Paris, Atlanta, Calgary and Toronto.

lucie jolicoeur côté

In 1991, after having explored painting and drawing, Lucie Jolicoeur Côté turned towards etching. Enamoured by l'eau-forte, she studied the techniqueat the Saidye Bronfman center in Montreal as well as in Urbino, Italy.

Lucie Jolicoeur Coté is a member of Atelier Circulaire and ARPRIM. Her works are shown in Canada and internationally and are part of numerous collections.

harold klunder

Born in the Netherlands in 1943 Harold Klunder immigrated to Canada in 1952. After studying at the Central Technical School in Toronto, his first solo exhibition in 1976 launched a painting career that has stemmed over three decades.

Worked on over a period of several years, Harold Klunder’s paintings use a rich visual vocabulary to touch upon notions of duration and transformation, of biology, autobiography, history and myth. At the core of every work, according to the artist, is the necessity to address the human experience. In recent years Klunder has created a large body of work centered around the theme of the self-portrait.

Widely exhibited throughout Canada, Harold Klunder’s works are also part of many major collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Jean-pierre larocque

Born in Montreal in 1953, Jean-Pierre Larocque studied drawing and printmaking at the Université du Québec à Montréal before pursuing studies in ceramics at Concordia University and the Alfred University of New York, from which he received an MFA in 1988.

While living and teaching for over ten years in the United States, the artist travelled repeatedly to Europe and Asia. Having shown his work extensively in North America as well as being included in many public and private collections, Larocque was selected to present a major solo exhibition in 2006 to inaugurate the new contemporary gallery of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics in Toronto. Jean-Pierre Larocque lives and works in Montreal.

Tome II

2006 | 50 x 65cm | Eau-forte and aquatint | 25 prints | Editor Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir

Hélène Latulippe

Hélène Latulippe is a Canadian artist based in Montréal. She has studied industrial design and in 2012, she has received a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal. She focuses primarily on visual arts since. She has also studied in France and Italy.

She has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions in venues that include Calgary, Toronto, UK, and Norway.  She has attended residencies in Norway, Montreal and Banff Center, as an independent resident in Leighton Colony Artists Studios, as part of the  Programme du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Résidences d’artistes et d’écrivains québécois au Banff Centre.

 She received grants from “Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec” and from McGill University in Montreal. She is prize-winner of “La 9e biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières” 2015 for the quality of her work and Artist of the Year 2014, City of Montreal – Lachine district.

Her work is all ready collected and includes Air Canada, Banque Nationale du Canada, Concordia University and private collectors like lawyers, architects and designers offices.

Traces

2012 | Triptych, 76 x 228 cm | Drypoint

René Laubies

René Laubiès was born in Saigon in 1924 where he spent most of his childhood. In 1949, following his law studies in Morocco, he settled in Paris. Faithful to his painting practice since his adolescence, his work was well recognized and became in demand in the 1950's.

Living a nomadic lifestyle for over 30 years he travelled to Greece, Iran and Turkey. He also split his life between Paris and India where most of his creations have seen the day. His works have been influenced by oriental philosophies and are bright minimalistic abstractions. He passed away in India in 2006.

Roy Lichtenstein

Emmanuel Radnitzky, better known as Man Ray, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He is most well known for his avant-garde photography, in which he cast many well know figures of his time such as Kiki de Montparnasse. Although he is known for his photos, he also worked in other mediums and considered himself a painter. He was a major contributor to the Dadaist and surrealist movements.

He appropriated the photogram, a type of photo made without the use of a camera, and renamed them «rayographs». In 1920, he collaborated with Marcel Duchamp on his kinetic sculptures in New York. In that same year he also founded, along with Katherine Dreier, the Société Anonyme, which was an itinerant collection later to become the first museum of modern art in the US.

In 1925, along with Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso, Man Ray was part of the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre in Paris.

The artist passed away on the 29th of September 1997 in Manhattan.

Roberto Matta

Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren was born in Santiago Chile on the 11th of November 1911. He is known as one of the most influencial Chilean artists in the abstract expressionist and surreal movements.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile before leaving school behind to settle in Paris in 1933. During his travels in Europe, he spent time along side Arschile Gorky, René Magritte, Salvador Dali, André Breton and Le Corbusier. He first studies architecture at the

His early work consists of «inscapes», paintings that were inspired by Freud’s idea that the psychic landscape exists in three dimentions. Later on, his work reflects the political reality of the 40’s and 50’s. Notably, there is the apparition of machinery and distressed figures.

Roberto Sebastián Matta passed away on November 23rd 2002 in Italy.

Oeuvre l’instant

1977 | 65 x 50 cm | Aquatint and eau-forte

Nid de Noeds

1979 | 66 x 52 cm | Aquatint and eau-forte

Jean mcewen

Jean McEwen was born in Montreal in 1923 and died in the same city in 1999. Encouraged by Paul-Émile Borduas, McEwen perfected his painting and printmaking in Paris and Montreal, under the influence of artists like Jackson Polock, Mark Rothko and Jean-Paul Riopelle. His work has been exhibited in many cities, including Montreal, Toronto, New York, Paris and London. Some of his works are included in important public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada. McEwen won the 1998 Prix Paul-Émile Borduas.

Martin Müller-Reinhart

Martin Müller-Reinhart was born in Soleure, Switzerland in 1954. Since 1977 he has worked and lived in Paris. He uses painting, etching and sculptural elements interchangeably to create visual spaces composed mostly of lines and flat surfaces, creating a meeting place of elements.

Amongst his works are large scale installations shown in churches and large public spaces. These installations create meditative and sobre environments. His most notable installations are in the chapel Saint Louis de la Salpetrière in Paris (1989) and the church of Gesù in Montreal (2009).

 Johny Ngbwa

Johny Hycinte Ngbwa was born in Cameroon in 1995. He moved to Italy in 2005. He became interested in art from an early age and then enrolled in 2009 at the State Institute of Art of Forlì, where he obtained the Master of Arts diploma and the baccalaureate in pictorial decoration and restoration.

Since 2014 he has been attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino where he graduated in graphic art and in 2020 he obtained a specialist diploma in edition and illustration for graphic art. He now works as a teacher at MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research).

Sentieri VII

2021 | 200 x 277 cm | Xylography | 5 prints

Sentieri IV

2021 | 140 x 200 cm | Xylography | 10 prints

Sentieri III

2021 | 140 x 200 cm | Xylography | 1 print

Sentieri II

2021 | 140 x 200 cm | Xylography | 2 prints

Sentieri

2021 | 140 x 200 cm | Xylography | 10 prints

stella pace

Concrete has for a long time been the material of choice for Stella Pace. The artist created her work by multiplying the imagery until the charged surfaces acquire psychological attributes.

Her sculptures and etchings are created by a process of accumulations. Concrete is layered in vigorous fashion and the result is an organic and improvised textural work

ED PIEN

Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1958, Ed Pien immigrated to Canada at the age of eleven. He received a Master of Fine Arts from York University in Toronto in 1984. His work has been the focus of numerous national and international exhibitions in such notable institutions as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Drawing Center in New York, the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City and the Goethe Institute in Berlin.

Ed Pien’s artwork draws on sources both Eastern and Western. Exploring the convergence of history, beliefs and mythology, his drawing based practice has often included intricate large scale installations that the viewer must enter and wander through. The artist’s work is included in many major collections including the National Galleryof Canada, the Museo de Arte y diseno Contemporaneo, Costa Rica and the Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona. Ed Pien lives and works in Toronto.

Man Ray

Emmanuel Radnitzky, better known as Man Ray, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He is most well known for his avant-garde photography, in which he cast many well know figures of his time such as Kiki de Montparnasse. Although he is known for his photos, he also worked in other mediums and considered himself a painter. He was a major contributor to the Dadaist and surrealist movements.

He appropriated the photogram, a type of photo made without the use of a camera, and renamed them «rayographs». In 1920, he collaborated with Marcel Duchamp on his kinetic sculptures in New York. In that same year he also founded, along with Katherine Dreier, the Société Anonyme, which was an itinerant collection later to become the first museum of modern art in the US.

In 1925, along with Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso, Man Ray was part of the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre in Paris.

 Stephanie Russ

Born in Montreal, Stephanie Russ completed a BFA in studio art from Concordia University in 1990 and an MFA from the University of Alberta in 1994.  Working primarily in print media and drawing she has had several solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in international biennales and triennials in countries such as the US, Serbia, Poland, Germany, Bosnia, Egypt, Japan, Belgium, France and Canada. She has been awarded several professional development and techniques grants, and recently won the prix Francine Turcotte. She was artist in residence at Atelier Circulaire in 2007 as well as at Presse Papier in 2019.  She is currently a sessional instructor at Concordia University in Montreal teaching lithography, screen printing and digital print.

Francine simonin

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1936, Francine Simonin has been working and living in Montreal since 1968. Her career spans four decades and she has had over 200 solo exhibits. She has also received many prizes and awards.

In 2004, the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec and the Monique and Robert Parizeau foundation gave her a prize to acknowledge and reward her contribution to the history of printmaking in Quebec. Her works are part of numerous public collections in Canada and Switzerland as well as many private collections around the world.

 Dorothea Tanning

American painter, engraver, sculptor and writer, Dorothea Tanning was born in Galesburg (Illinois) in 1910 and died in New York in 2012. Settled in the latter city from the 1930s, she was first associated with the surrealist movement, which led her to settle in France in 1953. She then reoriented her work, notably around the exploration of female fantasies, and devoted herself more to engraving, with Georges Visat and Pierre Chave, in particular . She returned to the United States in the late 1970s and continued her work there, publishing, among other things, poetry until her death at the age of 101.

 Marcelo Troche

Né à Montevideo (Uruguay) en 1971, Marcelo a vécu à Madrid et à Grenoble avant que sa famille s’installe à Montréal (Canada). Il passe maintenant son temps entre Montréal et Mérida, au Yucatan au Mexique, où il possède son propre sanctuaire de photographie.

Après avoir obtenu son diplôme en photographie au Cégep du Vieux Montréal, il a été recruté par l'un des meilleurs laboratoires de photographie noir et blanc, où il a développé un grand intérêt pour la photographie en noir et blanc et les techniques de laboratoire. Sa créativité et son talent l'ont amené à explorer la photographie publicitaire et éditoriale, passant du film à la photographie numérique, sans toutefois perdre sa passion pour le développement photographique en laboratoire et la photographie en noir et blanc.

En 2015, Marcelo va étudié à New York le « Tintype » et commence à maîtriser la technique tout en poursuivant sa carrière dans la publicité.

Il y a deux ans, en 2017, une vascularite cérébrale a brutalement frappé Marcelo. Après une longue hospitalisation, de nombreuses tentatives de traitement et une longue convalescence, il dut faire le deuil de sa carrière professionnelle. Mais cela a fait que Marcelo a décidé se consacrer à ce qu’il aime vraiment dans la photographie: le « tintype ». Il a trouvé dans cette technique un moyen de célébrer la beauté de ce qui semble repousser à première vue.

Raoul Ubac

Raoul Ubac was born on the 31st of August 1910 in Cologne. He spent most of his youth in Germany and eventually moves to Paris where he studies at the Sorbonne. In Paris, he meets Camille Bryen, Otto Freudlich and Andrée Breton and joins the Surrealist movement.

Ubac experiments with photography, notably with solarisation and petrification. In 1933 his experiments are exposed in a Parisian gallery.

He is also known for his drawings, his prints, his gouaches, his paintings, his reliefs, and his stained glass.

The artist passed away on March 24th in 1985.

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was born in Lisbon, Portugal on the 13th of June 1908. Early on, she developed an interest in drawing and painting and was enrolled in the city’s Academia de Belas-Arteswhere she was to study until her teenage years. Afterwards, she studied painting with Fernand Léger, sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle and etching with Stanley William Hayter, all masters in their respective fields.

By the time she was 22, she was exhibiting her work in Paris. Her compositions, largely influenced by Cézanne, are complex, dense and evoke the spatial ambiguities of cubism. Her work in the 40’s and 50’s reflects the essence of Post-war Paris. The artist portrays the city in profile and from bird’s eye views, often creating mazes and masses of people.

She becomes a French citizen in 1956. She is also the first woman to receive the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1966 and in 1979 is named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Vieira da Silva died in Paris on the 6thof March 1992.

Wang Suo Yuan

Wang Suo Yuan was born in China and has lived in France since 2002. Introduced to photography by his father, he also worked in jewelry and graphics, before turning to the fine arts. Trained in printmaking at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Versailles, then at the Contrepoint studio in Paris (ex-Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter), he chose from 2006 to initiate personal research on the variations of the line, to develop his own mode of expression. Recipient of several a wards, he has presented his work to the public in numerous solo and group exhibitions as well as biennials and international fairs, in France, China, Spain, Japan, the United States, South Korea, Belgium, Romania, Canada, and in Germany, notably at the Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières.

Inner Landscape III - I - II - IV - V

Red line - composition 3

2016 | 56 x 76 cm | Eau-forte and embossing of an inked thread

A simply story

2019 | 56 x 76 cm | Woodcut

Le parfum de la nuit

2017 | 65 x 50 cm | Eau-forte, aquatint and soft varnish

Zao Wou-Ki

Zao Wou-Ki is a Chinese painter and engraver, naturalized French, who was born in Beijing in 1920 and died in Nyon (Switzerland) in 2013. Trained at the Hangzou School of Fine Arts, he moved to Paris in 1949 and attended the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière and befriended many French and foreign artists. While his early work consisted mostly of realistic paintings, from his discovery of Paul Klee he turned towards abstraction and then lyrical abstraction. Internationally renowned, decorated several times in France, he was the object of a renewed attention in his country of origin from the 1980s.