In Korean the word soom refers to the actions of inhaling and exhaling.  Agnese Yunjeung Yangâ€s exhibition reflects this life necessity through a series of paintings in which she embraces her oriental culture. The artist divides her time between, North America and Asia and it is this dual cultural existence that allows her to appreciate each one respectively on the basis of their dissimilarities. Through travel and distance from one social sphere to another; a clearer perspective on cultural identity is achieved. Yangâ€s transcultural inspirations allow her to practice the meditative state of soom throughout her work.

Visual Voice Art Gallery
space 421
Agnese Yunjeung Yang
Meditation in Soom
November 18th – 27th , 2010 
www.visualvoicegallery.com

 Jeremy Priceâ€s Centre Ville is a collection of paintings that display the diversity of Montrealâ€s urban fabric by capturing different neighborhoods and streets. The cityscapes in his work represent a personal portrayal of the city; a mix of childhood memories and the settings that have become his new home. The paintings are not meant to be wholesome sterile depictions of Montrealâ€s urban environment but rather show the city in an unbiased fashion, as it is experienced in its day to day form by commuters and the people who live there. In essence, Priceâ€s work captures the fleeting moments of everyday life.

 

This exhibition project stems from two ideas.

First, I revisit my previous work, including ten years spent exploring landscape, in order to address a set of recurrent formal issues arising both in my figurative and abstract paintings. In this pictorial index characteristic of my practice, I deal with the superposition of materials and with what comprises painting as such, with its material slices, or even with its gaps which accentuate the motifâ€s presence/absence.

I then place this index in the gallery space by installing the studio there, which is both an open and closed space in which objects, images, and fragmented works in the process of becoming (which comprise the spirit of the space) are accumulated. I make use of bookcases, windows, and worktables to display drawings, plaster sculptures, photographs and paintings that have a bearing on art and motifs related to the landscape and to the figure. Prefiguring works to come, I question the interaction between all such elements and the variegated ways in which they succeed in taking part in the creative process, thereby finding their way into a totality that appears eclectic.

This is an exhibition encompassing as many readings as there as avenues to explore. This work can be read as an unveiling of the components of my practice, as well as a game that toys with my imaginary.

(taken from Les Territoires press release)

La galerie les territoires 
space 527
Luc Bergeron
Table des Matières
October 21st 2nd to November 7th, 2010

Vernissage – Friday, October 22nd, 2010 -5pm

http://www.lesterritoires.org

For its inaugural exhibition as Laroche/Joncas (formely Projex-Mtl Galerie) we are very pleased to present the second solo exhibition of new paintings by New-York City based artist Yves Tessier. Yves Tessier’s previous exhibition with the gallery was in October 2009. In his ongoing chronicles of the everyday life begun in 2001, Tessier adds to this body of work new genre scenes of recent situations.

 
Humorous and personal, these paintings are the result of an elaborate process that includes life drawings from observation and the use of images appropriated from advertisements and photographs translated into drawings. Then, his use of casein on small wood panels allows him to construct narrative compositions portraying private moments where sensuality and desire play an important role.
 (taken from the Laroche/Joncas press release)

galerie Laroche/Joncas
space 212
Yves Tessier
September 11th – October 9th, 2010

www.projex-mtl.com

Richard Rossetto’s solo exhibition Inner Dialogue features highlights of his Automatic Word Drawings series, as well as a collection of his most recent three-dimensional works. Rossetto’s unique Automatic Word Drawings are created by writing words on top of each other without conscious direction or fore-thought in order to create a nearly accidental image. His intense ink drawings are filled with areas of deep blacks which dissolve into cloud shapes suggestive of figures and landscapes. As they fade into the edges of the paper words become legible, suggesting a narrative. Even though his process of drawing is based on automatism, the artist’s choice of words is not at all random. Rossetto draws his inspiration from the writings of Napoleon Hill, Antony Robbins and Brian Tracy.
 

 

 

Visual Voice Art Gallery
space 421
Richard Rossetto
Inner Dialogue
September 9th – October 2nd, 2010 
www.visualvoicegallery.com