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{{short description|Canadian artist, painter and engraver (born 1964)}} |
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| caption = Jean Gaudreau in his studio in 2015 |
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|5|27|mf=yes}} |
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| birth_place = [[Quebec City]], [[Quebec]] |
| birth_place = [[Quebec City]], [[Quebec]] |
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| education = Georges Gogardi<br>Michel Labbé |
| education = Georges Gogardi<br>Michel Labbé |
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| alma_mater = [[Laval University]] |
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| known_for = Painting |
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| movement = [[Automatistes|Automatisme]]<br>[[Abstract Art]] |
| movement = [[Automatistes|Automatisme]]<br>[[Abstract Art]] |
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| awards = ''[[Le Moulin à images]]''<br>Cirque du Soleil |
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Gaudreau was born in [[Quebec City|Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.]] At the age of 10, he was offered the chance to study drawing at the ''Séminaire des Pères Maristes''.<ref>"[http://www.spmaristes.qc.ca/seminaire/historique/ Séminaire des Pères Maristes]" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926012014/http://www.spmaristes.qc.ca/seminaire/historique/|date=September 26, 2013}} </ref> As a child, he learned the "old fashioned way," the ''Mezzotint,'' as well as the importance of [[geometry]] in drawing. |
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⚫ | When he was twelve years old, Gaudreau painted genre art scenes in Quebec's old port.<ref>Jean Gaudreau, interview with Michaël Lachance, 2016</ref> His first subjects were the [[stevedore]]s, the boats, the docks, the river, and in the background, the buildings on Quebec City's [[headland]], the [[cap Diamant]]. He outlined, in the manner of the countryside [[landscape painter]]s,<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/paysages-ruraux|title=Paysages ruraux|last1=Domon|first1=Gérard|last2=Ruiz|first2=Julie|publisher=PUM|year=2015|isbn=9782760634817|location=Montréal, Québec|language=fr}}</ref> the contours of the old buildings. |
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Gaudreau was born in [[Quebec City]]. At 10 years old, his mother, Claudia Tremblay, a [[Plastic arts|plastic art]] teacher, musician, and painter, entrusted her son to Sister Alice Pruneau<ref>named the "nun-artist" unique in the History of art in Quebec and maybe even in Canada, Sister [http://www.soeursdubonpasteur.ca/ Alice Pruneau] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012142842/http://soeursdubonpasteur.ca/|date=October 12, 2016}} (Sister Sainte-Alice-de-Blois), follows the teachings of [[Jean Paul Lemieux]] at l'[[École des beaux-arts de Québec]] (School for Fine Arts) between 1940 and 1945. The paintings she created until the end of the 1960s, her "Modern Arts " period, are the witness of her natural virtuosity. Sister Alice uses art as a language and cannot help but draw. Her artworks are spiritual exercises, eloquent witnesses of her intellectual and spiritual approach. Amélie Leclerc, Responsable du patrimoine, [http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=160969&type=bien#.WOe881M1--s Maison généralice]{{dead link|date=May 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} </ref> to teach him the basics of drawing at the ''Séminaire des Pères Maristes''<ref>"[http://www.spmaristes.qc.ca/seminaire/historique/ Séminaire des Pères Maristes]" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926012014/http://www.spmaristes.qc.ca/seminaire/historique/ |date=September 26, 2013 }} </ref> in Quebec City. As a child, he learned the "old fashioned way," the ''Mezzotint,'' as well as the importance of [[geometry]] in drawing. Pruneau taught him the rules of [[Perspective (graphical)|perspective]] and [[vanishing point]]s as well as the [[Golden triangle (mathematics)|Golden Triangle]]. |
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⚫ | As a teenager, Gaudreau regularly visited [[Jean Paul Lemieux]], who taught him the importance of drawing in the practice of painting. At 17 years old, Jean Gaudreau presented his first solo exhibition in an art gallery.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde|last=Robert|first=Guy|publisher=Éditions Malibu|year=1990|location=Québec|pages=9|language=fr}}</ref> |
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=== Early Life (1974–1985) === |
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⚫ | When he was twelve years old, Gaudreau painted genre art scenes in Quebec's old port.<ref>Jean Gaudreau, interview with Michaël Lachance, 2016</ref> His first subjects were the [[stevedore]]s, the boats, the docks, the river, and in the background, the buildings on Quebec City's [[headland]], the [[cap Diamant]]. He outlined, in the manner of the countryside [[landscape painter]]s,<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/paysages-ruraux|title=Paysages ruraux|last1=Domon|first1=Gérard|last2=Ruiz|first2=Julie|publisher=PUM|year=2015|isbn=9782760634817|location=Montréal, Québec|language=fr}}</ref> the contours of the old buildings. |
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⚫ | Gaudreau later started experimenting with [[copper]] with the help of remains from the South turret of the Château Frontenac.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Champagne|first=Marjorie|date=July 2, 2014|title=Jean Gaudreau : confidences en atelier|url=http://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/1918/jean-gaudreau-confidences-en-atelier|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116174755/http://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/1918/jean-gaudreau-confidences-en-atelier|archive-date=January 16, 2017|access-date=January 14, 2017|website=lafabriqueculturelle.tv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Goutier|first=Claire|date=September 16, 2016|title=L'ancienne toiture du Château Frontenac comme offrande artistique|url=http://bazzart.biz/lancienne-toiture-du-chateau-frontenac-comme-offrande-artistique/|journal=Bazzart}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Genest|first=Catherine|date=June 19, 2014|title=ERVUIC : La deuxième vie du cuivre verdi|url=https://voir.ca/arts-visuels/2014/06/19/jean-gaudreau-ervuic-la-deuxieme-vie-du-cuivre-verdi/|journal=Voir}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Martin|first=Johanne|date=February 9, 2016|title=Jean Gaudreau, artiste multidisciplinaire|url=http://www.magazineprestige.com/news/post/soulignons-lexcellence/en-page-couverture-jean-gaudreau-artiste-multidisciplinaire/3186|journal=Prestige|issn=1205-6707}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Desloges|first=Josiane|date=June 27, 2014|title=Jean Gaudreau : de pigments et de cuivre|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts/expositions/201406/26/01-4779240-jean-gaudreau-de-pigments-et-de-cuivre.php|journal=Le Soleil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nadeau|first=Pierre O.|date=September 22, 2012|title=Le cuivre du Château Frontenac sur les toiles de Jean Gaudreau|url=http://www.journaldequebec.com/2012/09/22/le-cuivre-du-chateau-frontenac-sur-les-toiles-de-jean-gaudreau|journal=Journal de Québec}}</ref> |
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=== Education at Isle-aux-Coudres === |
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=== Later Career === |
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⚫ | Gaudreau started experimenting with copper with the help of remains from the South turret of the Château Frontenac.<ref>{{Cite web |
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"By using a material out of the past—the copper—transforming it into a contemporary character, the artist explores what could be described as the point of metamorphosis of the medium, trying to answer questions such as 'What happens when these remains begin a new life?"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zÿlbeck |title=Jean Gaudreau, Au cœur de nos vies |publisher=MC Communication |year=2015 |location=Québec |pages=3–4}}</ref> |
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According to Robert Bernier, "Chance encounters and the very spirit of his artistic production have led Gaudreau to associate, for many years, dance and performance art to his painting. Both by the themes he tackles and in the conception of the many events he put together, the body has become a central element of his work."<ref>{{Cite book|title=La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960|last=Bernier|first=Robert|publisher=Les éditions de l'homme|date=October 2002|isbn=2-7619-1566-6|location=Montréal, Québec|pages=218–219|language=fr}}</ref> |
According to Robert Bernier, "Chance encounters and the very spirit of his artistic production have led Gaudreau to associate, for many years, dance and performance art to his painting. Both by the themes he tackles and in the conception of the many events he put together, the body has become a central element of his work."<ref>{{Cite book|title=La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960|last=Bernier|first=Robert|publisher=Les éditions de l'homme|date=October 2002|isbn=2-7619-1566-6|location=Montréal, Québec|pages=218–219|language=fr}}</ref> |
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Nathalie Côté has said "he is without a doubt, a singular figure of the Quebec visual arts world."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Côté|first=Nathalie|date=September 19, 1998|title=La Transcendance des taches : Coup de fougue|url=https://voir.ca/arts-visuels/1998/11/19/la-transcendance-des-taches-coup-de-fougue/|journal=Voir|language=fr}}</ref> |
Nathalie Côté has said "he is without a doubt, a singular figure of the Quebec visual arts world."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Côté|first=Nathalie|date=September 19, 1998|title=La Transcendance des taches : Coup de fougue|url=https://voir.ca/arts-visuels/1998/11/19/la-transcendance-des-taches-coup-de-fougue/|journal=Voir|language=fr}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Juliette Laurent said, "The brush strokes recall Riopelle, Pollock, Stella, Klimt and Ferron; some traces evoke the Automatists and the flights dear to the lyrical abstracts." Admittedly, the artist avails himself of a postmodernism that tends to integrate all streams as bare witnesses the presence of figurative and non-figurative elements, women with lascivious faces, sinuous lines and the juxtaposition of vibrant hues and gilding. The predominant gestural as well as the intentionally less than finished and more primary aspect of his painting constitute trials at forging a personal style."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Laurent|first=Juliette|year=1995|title=Jean Gaudreau ou la fougue de peindre|url=http://www.erudit.org/culture/va1081917/va1140387/53409ac.pdf|journal=Vie des Arts|series=39|volume=161|pages=52–53|via=érudit}}</ref> |
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⚫ | In 2008, Gaudreau was presented as one of the figures of Quebec's [[contemporary art]] scene by [[Robert Lepage]] during the celebrations for the [[400th anniversary of Quebec City|400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec City]]. In his animated film ''[[:fr:Le Moulin à images|Le Moulin à images]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|last=ICI.Radio-Canada.ca|first=Zone Arts-|title=Le Moulin à images : un rendez-vous spectaculaire avec l'histoire|url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1107781/moulin-images-spectacle-histoire-quebec-anniversaire-archives|access-date=2022-09-03|website=Radio-Canada.ca|date=June 19, 2018 |language=fr-ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Perron|first=Alexandra|date=September 9, 2009|title=La couleur de Jean Gaudreau sur les silos de la Bunge|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts/expositions/200909/08/01-899789-la-couleur-de-jean-gaudreau-sur-les-silos-de-la-bunge.php|journal=La Presse}}</ref> Lepage projected images of artworks by Gaudreau next to works from [[Jean Paul Lemieux]], Martin Bureau, [[Jean-Paul Riopelle]], and [[Alfred Pellan]], among others, on grain silos located in [[Anse au Foulon]] in Quebec City's old port. |
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⚫ | Juliette Laurent said, "The brush strokes recall Riopelle, Pollock, Stella, Klimt and Ferron; some traces evoke the Automatists and the flights dear to the lyrical abstracts |
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⚫ | In 2008, Gaudreau was presented as one of the figures of Quebec's [[contemporary art]] scene by [[Robert Lepage]] during the celebrations for the [[400th anniversary of Quebec City|400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec City]]. In his animated film ''[[:fr: |
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==Video documents== |
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* Belco, J: ''Jean Gaudreau – Environnement de création'', 2010 |
* Belco, J: ''Jean Gaudreau – Environnement de création'', 2010 |
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* Lacerte, Louis: ''Jean Gaudreau – Moulin à images'', 2014 |
* Lacerte, Louis: ''Jean Gaudreau – Moulin à images'', 2014 |
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* Roberge, Josiane: ''Court métrage – Tambours flambeaux'', 201 |
* Roberge, Josiane: ''Court métrage – Tambours flambeaux'', 201 |
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==Private and public collections== |
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* ''Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent'' |
* ''Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent'' |
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* ''Cirque du Soleil'' |
* ''Cirque du Soleil'' |
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* [[Banque Toronto-Dominion|TD Bank]] |
* [[Banque Toronto-Dominion|TD Bank]] |
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* Premier Tech |
* Premier Tech |
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* [[Musée Laurier|Laurier Museum]] |
* [[Musée Laurier|Laurier Museum]] |
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==References== |
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==Bibliography== |
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* {{Cite book|title=Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde|last=Robert|first=Guy|publisher=Éditions Malibu|year=1990|series=Catalogue on the 1979–1990 retrospective|location=Quebec|pages=9|language=fr}} |
* {{Cite book|title=Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde|last=Robert|first=Guy|publisher=Éditions Malibu|year=1990|series=Catalogue on the 1979–1990 retrospective|location=Quebec|pages=9|language=fr}} |
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* {{Cite book|title=Le pied au plancher / Feet on the Floor|last=Bélanger|first=Jacques|publisher=MC Communications|others=Photography, Simon Clark|year=2009|isbn=978-2-9806728-1-1|location=Quebec|language=fr, en|translator-last=Ratcliffe|translator-first=Abigail}} |
* {{Cite book|title=Le pied au plancher / Feet on the Floor|last=Bélanger|first=Jacques|publisher=MC Communications|others=Photography, Simon Clark|year=2009|isbn=978-2-9806728-1-1|location=Quebec|language=fr, en|translator-last=Ratcliffe|translator-first=Abigail}} |
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Jean Gaudreau | |
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Born | |
Education | Georges Gogardi Michel Labbé |
Alma mater | Laval University |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Automatisme Abstract Art |
Awards | Le Moulin à images Cirque du Soleil |
Jean Gaudreau (born May 27, 1964) is a Canadian artist, painter, and engraver.
Biography
[edit]Gaudreau was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. At the age of 10, he was offered the chance to study drawing at the Séminaire des Pères Maristes.[1] As a child, he learned the "old fashioned way," the Mezzotint, as well as the importance of geometry in drawing.
When he was twelve years old, Gaudreau painted genre art scenes in Quebec's old port.[2] His first subjects were the stevedores, the boats, the docks, the river, and in the background, the buildings on Quebec City's headland, the cap Diamant. He outlined, in the manner of the countryside landscape painters,[3] the contours of the old buildings.
As a teenager, Gaudreau regularly visited Jean Paul Lemieux, who taught him the importance of drawing in the practice of painting. At 17 years old, Jean Gaudreau presented his first solo exhibition in an art gallery.[4]
Gaudreau later started experimenting with copper with the help of remains from the South turret of the Château Frontenac.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Reactions
[edit]According to Robert Bernier, "Chance encounters and the very spirit of his artistic production have led Gaudreau to associate, for many years, dance and performance art to his painting. Both by the themes he tackles and in the conception of the many events he put together, the body has become a central element of his work."[11]
Nathalie Côté has said "he is without a doubt, a singular figure of the Quebec visual arts world."[12]
Juliette Laurent said, "The brush strokes recall Riopelle, Pollock, Stella, Klimt and Ferron; some traces evoke the Automatists and the flights dear to the lyrical abstracts." Admittedly, the artist avails himself of a postmodernism that tends to integrate all streams as bare witnesses the presence of figurative and non-figurative elements, women with lascivious faces, sinuous lines and the juxtaposition of vibrant hues and gilding. The predominant gestural as well as the intentionally less than finished and more primary aspect of his painting constitute trials at forging a personal style."[13]
In 2008, Gaudreau was presented as one of the figures of Quebec's contemporary art scene by Robert Lepage during the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec City. In his animated film Le Moulin à images,[14][15] Lepage projected images of artworks by Gaudreau next to works from Jean Paul Lemieux, Martin Bureau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, and Alfred Pellan, among others, on grain silos located in Anse au Foulon in Quebec City's old port.
Video documents
[edit]- Belco, J: Jean Gaudreau – Environnement de création, 2010
- Lacerte, Louis: Jean Gaudreau – Moulin à images, 2014
- Roberge, Josiane: Balise du Temps, 2015
- Roberge, Josiane: Court métrage – Tambours flambeaux, 201
Private and public collections
[edit]- Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent
- Cirque du Soleil
- Québécor Média
- Loto-Québec
- Feel Europe Group
- Quebec City
- Laval University
- Sherbrooke University
- Groupe TVA
- Alcan
- TD Bank
- Premier Tech
- Laurier Museum
References
[edit]- ^ "Séminaire des Pères Maristes" Archived September 26, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jean Gaudreau, interview with Michaël Lachance, 2016
- ^ Domon, Gérard; Ruiz, Julie (2015). Paysages ruraux (in French). Montréal, Québec: PUM. ISBN 9782760634817.
- ^ Robert, Guy (1990). Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde (in French). Québec: Éditions Malibu. p. 9.
- ^ Champagne, Marjorie (July 2, 2014). "Jean Gaudreau : confidences en atelier". lafabriqueculturelle.tv. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- ^ Goutier, Claire (September 16, 2016). "L'ancienne toiture du Château Frontenac comme offrande artistique". Bazzart.
- ^ Genest, Catherine (June 19, 2014). "ERVUIC : La deuxième vie du cuivre verdi". Voir.
- ^ Martin, Johanne (February 9, 2016). "Jean Gaudreau, artiste multidisciplinaire". Prestige. ISSN 1205-6707.
- ^ Desloges, Josiane (June 27, 2014). "Jean Gaudreau : de pigments et de cuivre". Le Soleil.
- ^ Nadeau, Pierre O. (September 22, 2012). "Le cuivre du Château Frontenac sur les toiles de Jean Gaudreau". Journal de Québec.
- ^ Bernier, Robert (October 2002). La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960 (in French). Montréal, Québec: Les éditions de l'homme. pp. 218–219. ISBN 2-7619-1566-6.
- ^ Côté, Nathalie (September 19, 1998). "La Transcendance des taches : Coup de fougue". Voir (in French).
- ^ Laurent, Juliette (1995). "Jean Gaudreau ou la fougue de peindre" (PDF). Vie des Arts. 39. 161: 52–53 – via érudit.
- ^ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Arts- (June 19, 2018). "Le Moulin à images : un rendez-vous spectaculaire avec l'histoire". Radio-Canada.ca (in Canadian French). Retrieved September 3, 2022.
- ^ Perron, Alexandra (September 9, 2009). "La couleur de Jean Gaudreau sur les silos de la Bunge". La Presse.
Bibliography
[edit]- Robert, Guy (1990). Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde. Catalogue on the 1979–1990 retrospective (in French). Quebec: Éditions Malibu. p. 9.
- Bélanger, Jacques (2009). Le pied au plancher / Feet on the Floor (in French and English). Translated by Ratcliffe, Abigail. Photography, Simon Clark. Quebec: MC Communications. ISBN 978-2-9806728-1-1.
- Zÿlbeck (2015). Jean Gaudreau, au coeur de nos vies (in French and English). Translated by Millar, Christine. MC Communications.
- Motulsky-Falardeau, Alexandre (2014). Jean Gaudreau, ERVIUC (in French and English). Translated by Ratcliffe, Abigail. MC Communications. ISBN 978-2-9806728-2-8.
- Côté, Nathalie (2007). Jean Gaudreau : cycle de vie / Life Cycle. Cycle de vie, Parcours 1995–2007 (in French and English). Translated by Hamilton, Grant. Photography, Pierre Soulard. Quebec.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Bernier, Robert (2002). La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960. Montreal: Les éditions de l'homme. pp. 218–219. ISBN 2-7619-1566-6.
- 1964 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian artists
- 21st-century Canadian artists
- Artists from Quebec City
- Canadian engravers
- Canadian painters
- Canadian photographers
- Canadian sculptors
- Canadian male sculptors
- Université Laval alumni
- 20th-century Canadian male artists
- 21st-century Canadian male artists
- Canadian abstract artists