Ray Ellenwood is a Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto. He is a long time friend to both Pierre Gauvreau and Janine Carreau, as well as the author of numerous volumes of translation of French Canadian literature, including the Automatist manifesto, Refus global. He won the Canada Council Translation Prize for his translation of Entrails, a book of dramatic objects by the surrationalist poet and brother of Pierre Gauvreau, Claude Gauvreau. Ellenwood is also the author of Egregore: The Montreal Automatist Movement, and co-author of The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960. In [...]
I was born in Vancouver, Canada to a British father and Cuban mother. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design where I majored in Photography. I also studied Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University. In fall of 2004 I began a 13 month adventure travelling around Cuba and taking workshops at the Superior Institute of Art in Havana. Sometimes you have to be far away from everything you thought was important, to realize what really matters in life. Returning to Canada I moved to Toronto to explore what [...]
Link to Obituary Statement by Ray Ellenwood link to Montreal Gazette Article on Pierre Gauvreau link to The Globe and Mail Article on Pierre Gauvreau Artist Bio Pierre Gauvreau was born in Montréal on the 23 August 1922. In 1941, while a student at Montréal’s École des beaux-arts, Pierre discovered French modernism through magazines. This discovery influenced his work and attracted the attention of Paul-Émile Borduas who invited Gauvreau to join the radical young artists and intellectuals who met informally in Borduas’s studio. Like them, Gauvreau and his poet brother, Claude, became interested in [...]
Tom Carter’s work studies the urban environment – a fascinating cross section of society where people in very different situations must interact. His work remind us that cities may be where loneliness is felt most acutely. His art explores themes of isolation versus inclusion – how we fit into the world and society. His subjects tend to be set in other eras which, besides satisfying his historical interest, reveal elements that are timeless – truths that do not change. Although there might be cold and turbulence in his work, all the settings have a sanctuary, [...]
Artist Bio While pursuing her own career as a painter and photographer, Janine Carreau combined energies with her husband Pierre Gauvreau from the early 1970s until his death in April of this year. Their recent individual and collaborative works will be shown in the Art = Liberation Exhibition. Janine Carreau’s early works tended to mix media, combining photography and painting. More recently, she has been concentrating more on painterly abstractions, unapologetically bold in colour and gesture, often inspired by an international and multilingual selection of painters, writers, musicians, celebrities. She has been highly inventive in [...]
In 1977 Katherine Surridge received a BFA (painting) from the University of Victoria and completed a Master’s residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. She has also studied Video at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. Her work has been exhibited throughout Canada and the United States and can be found in many corporate and public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, BC Provincial Collection, Burnaby Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Nova Corporation and The Toronto Dominion Bank.
Originally from Northern Alberta and now based in New York City, Lehmann creates montages that re-negotiate the conventional process of developing photographs in the darkroom. He begins by layering different images on top of one another then turns the lights on, breaking a fundamental rule of working in a light-controlled environment. Lehmann has to move quickly to stop the process, by doing so, the compositions that arise are both vivid and surreal, capturing what is often dismissed right in front of our eyes.
Karl Stittgen has never been afraid of making mistakes: the artist made many of them when he first taught himself to craft handmade jewellery. He saw accidental beauty in each imperfection and turned them into one-of-a-kind works of art. Each piece reflects the rough nature of the materials, and over time his imperfections became part of an intentional design, garnering him many awards, a devoted following, and an international reputation.
