The Young Artists series 2004- 07
selection
The series Young Artists, as well as a later iteration titled Studio Days, are paintings and drawings I worked on between 2002 and 2008 in order to delve into the anxiety surrounding subject matter in contemporary painting. For each painting or drawing I placed myself in the role of one of my own students whom I photographed at work during studio class—I played ‘medium’ picturing my hypothetical ‘self’ in one panel and my hypothetical art in the other. My naive search for naiveté had some very rewarding and sometimes humorous results—it seems the dilemma of subject matter is not restricted to youth but is, rather, inherent to the subject of youth itself.
read text written by art critic René Viau
Installation Views, Fofa Gallery, The Vitrines, Montréal, Québec, 2007
Blue Curtain (diptych), 2008
50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101.6 cm (each panel) acrylic and oil on canvas
Young Artists, Installation View, Galerie d’ art du Parc, Trois rivieres, Quebec, 2008
Flower Power (diptych), 2006
oil and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 80 inches / 128 x 203.2 cm
The Offering (diptych), 2006
oil on canvas, 64 x 94 inches / 162.56 x 238.76 cm
The Opening, 2005
oil and acrylic on canvas, 101.6 x 152.4 cm / 40 x 60 inches
Study, 2005
watercolour on paper, 76.2 x 55.88 cm / 30 x 22 inches
Study, 2005
watercolour on paper, 76.2 x 55.88 cm / 30 x 22 inches
Yellow Donkey (diptych), 2006
oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 in. x 60 inches / 101.6 x 152.4 cm