Artists by LAST NAMe : i, j, k AND l.

Carmen Isasi

Carmen Isasi, a Spanish visual artist, lives and works in Madrid, where she develops an artistic practice that combines painting, printmaking, and installations. A graduate of the Fine Arts program at the Complutense University of Madrid, she explores the relationships between collective memory and identity, drawing inspiration from both Spanish art history and contemporary issues. Since the early 2010s, she has exhibited her work regularly in Spain and internationally, attracting a diverse audience. Recognized for her subtle use of color and the finesse of her compositions, she continues to enrich the Iberian art scene and beyond.

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.

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.

Artists BY LAST NAME : m, n, o AND P.

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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).