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Summertime in Paris Spectiveretro
Parisian Laundry invites you to our annual summer group exhibition. Featuring works by gallery artists and selected guests, Summertime in Paris: Spectiveretro, playfully suggests a convergence and muddling of the past, present and future. The exhibition proposes a dynamic and exciting dialogue between artworks from distinctive and developed practices. Please join Parisian Laundry in celebrating the work of Dean Baldwin, Paul Hardy, Laurie Kang, Karen Kraven, Rick Leong, Luc Paradis, Matus Racek, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Justin Stephens and Janet Werner.
Dean Baldwin’s installations are neither limited by functionality nor aesthetic disinterestedness, but work somewhere beyond these universalizing, exclusionary boundaries, fusing together a space that is both inhabitable and fantastical. He has participated in numerous national and international residencies, including stays in Venice, Dublin and Mumbai and also had the opportunity to travel to London following the reception of an award through the Canada Council International Residencies Program. He has had solo projects at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Contemporary No.9 (Toronto), Centre Clark (Montreal) and Volta 5 (Basel, Switzeralnd). Additionally Notable group exhibitions include the 2013-2014 touring MASS MoCA exhibition Oh Canada, a feature at the Art Gallery of Alberta, participation in the Sculpture Bienniale (Saint-Port de Joli), as well as the Junction Arts Festival (Tasmania) and inclusion in the 2011 Quebec Triennial.
Renowned for cheeky, critical and explosive works, BGL creates self-referential, site-specific installations that seek to re-contextualize the space of the gallery. These artworks are at once nostalgic, while simultaneously indebted to contemporary culture. For almost two decades now, the collective has presented major installations and performances and participated in innumerable group and solo exhibitions. BGL has been invited to show their work by a variety of institutions, including the first edition of the Bienal del fin del mundo (Ushuaia, Argentina), the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée d’art moderne Lille Métropole (France), Mercer Union (Toronto), Hart House (Toronto), the Havana Biennale (Cuba) and The Montreal Biennale. More recently BGL was chosen to represent Canada at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Paul Hardy's ambiguous and abstracted paintings are characterized by relentless material explorations: an exhaustive process of undoings and renewals which demonstrate an eclectic relationship to tradition. The artist’s subjectivity appears through different physical sites of investigation where the personal and art historical collide. In 2014 the artist took part in his first solo exhibition at Parisian Laundry, Et ensuite, on recommence. His work has been shown on numerous occasions in the Canadian Maritimes as well as in Montreal and is found in many private collections in Canada. Hardy recently pariticipated in the Symposium international d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and was the recipient of the thematic artist residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Islands).
Laurie Kang works in image-based sculpture and installation. Exhibition and project sites include Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Metropole, Erin Stump Projects and 8-Eleven Gallery (Toronto); Gallery 295 (Vancouver), Camera Austria (Graz), and Feldbuschwiesner (Berlin). Upcoming projects include a collaborative exhibition at The Power Plant Gallery with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich. She is an MFA candidate at Bard College.
Karen Kraven’s works set up unexpected encounters between sculptures and images, uncanny resemblances and misleading juxtapositions. Like a stage or film set that’s been frozen in time, these spaces confound and delight through the practiced strategies of a con artist. Recent solo exhibitions include Flip Flop, Front Punch at Mercer Union (Toronto), Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah at the Darling Foundry (Montreal), A Mucker and a Grinder at Parisian Laundry and As Above, So Below at Centre Clark (Montreal). Her work has also been shown at Centre Dare-Dare (Montreal), Leonard & Ellen Bina Gallery (Montreal) and Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto Mississauga). She has participated in artist’s residencies at The Banff Centre and with Reverse Pedagogy (Venice). From 2013-2016, she will have a Montreal Artist's Creation Studio at the Darling Foundry (Montreal).
Rick Leong’s painted landscapes are rooted in a bilingual vocabulary and style. Drawn from observation and influenced by classical Chinese paintings, imagery and symbols, his large-scale paintings incorporate a holistic view of the Canadian landscape and the artist's relationship to it. His thesis work was immediately acquired by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, affirming his emerging practice. In 2008, he was a finalist in the Royal Bank of Canada’s Painting Competition, touring at venues such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Power Plant (Toronto) and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver). In addition to having participated in many group exhibitions at various Canadian and international spaces, Leong has also been the subject of solo shows at Two Rivers Gallery (Prince George), Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax), the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and the McClure Gallery (Montreal).
Luc Paradis borrows imagery from the historical avant-garde but translates it into popular language. His references to the artistic canon are nonetheless humoristic. Paradis has been involved in many multidisciplinary projects in the artistic community in Montreal. His work has been exhibited in many galleries in Quebec, notably Parisian Laundry, Oeil de Poisson (Québec), the Baie St Paul Museum during the 27th symposium for contemporary art and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez (Montreal). Paradis was the subject of a solo exhibition at Parisian Laundry in 2014.
The practice of Celia Perrin Sidarous presents assemblages and carefully curated arrangements, following a logic that is at once internal and associative. Her photographs offer a considered way of looking at collected objects within the visual rhetoric of the studio. The artist has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina), the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal), the Banff Centre (Banff), FOFA Gallery (Montreal), WWTWO (Montreal), VU, centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie (Québec City) and Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography (Toronto). She has completed several artist residencies and has been the recipient of a number of grants and awards, among them the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award in 2011.
Justin Stephens paints from a tenuous position. This is not to suggest a lack of resolution nor a willingness for failure. In actuality, his work polarizes between a suspension of disbelief and a search for misty intangibles. Stephen’s work has recently been featured in a group exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy and will be presented in an exhibition of the 2014 Glasgow International. The artist was included in the Québec Triennial of 2011 at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal and has had solo exhibitions at Mercer Union (Toronto) and the Darling Foundry (Montreal). His work has been selected twice consecutively by the annual Royal Bank of Canada painting competition.
Janet Werner’s work as a painter focuses on the fictional portrait as a vehicle to explore notions of subjectivity and desire. Her paintings operate within and against the genre of conventional portraiture, taking found images of anonymous figures in popular culture and imbuing them with fictional personalities. The process of painting is a way of investigating the iconic power of the image, invoking imagination, memory, and projection to invest the nameless figure with human subjectivity and emotion. She has shown widely in Canada including solo shows at the Art Gallery of Windsor, SBC Gallery (Montreal), The Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon), The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), The Ottawa Art Gallery and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg). Recent group exhibitions include Project/Peinture/The Painting Project at Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal), Generation at the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton),Intrus/Intruders, at Musée du Québec (Québec) and Painting Perspectivesat AXE Neo7 (Gatineau). Internationally, Werner’s work has been exhibited in the Prague Biennale and in the survey exhibition Oh, Canadaat MASS MoCA (Massachussets). She has presented solo exhibitions at Whatiftheworld Gallery (Cape Town) Galerie Julia Garnatz (Cologne) and the Portrait Society Gallery (Milwaukee). A survey exhibition of that artist's recent artworks entitled Another Perfect Day was organized by the Kenderdine Art Gallery and is currently on tour to five locations in Canada including the Esker Foundation (Calgary), the McIntosh Gallery (London, Ontario), Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal) and the Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto). In the Fall, 2015 her work will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Esther Massry Gallery in Albany, New York.
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Parisian Laundry invites you to our annual summer group exhibition. Featuring works by gallery artists and selected guests, Summertime in Paris: Spectiveretro, playfully suggests a convergence and muddling of the past, present and future. The exhibition proposes a dynamic and exciting dialogue between artworks from distinctive and developed practices. Please join Parisian Laundry in celebrating the work of Dean Baldwin, Paul Hardy, Laurie Kang, Karen Kraven, Rick Leong, Luc Paradis, Matus Racek, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Justin Stephens and Janet Werner.
Dean Baldwin’s installations are neither limited by functionality nor aesthetic disinterestedness, but work somewhere beyond these universalizing, exclusionary boundaries, fusing together a space that is both inhabitable and fantastical. He has participated in numerous national and international residencies, including stays in Venice, Dublin and Mumbai and also had the opportunity to travel to London following the reception of an award through the Canada Council International Residencies Program. He has had solo projects at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Contemporary No.9 (Toronto), Centre Clark (Montreal) and Volta 5 (Basel, Switzeralnd). Additionally Notable group exhibitions include the 2013-2014 touring MASS MoCA exhibition Oh Canada, a feature at the Art Gallery of Alberta, participation in the Sculpture Bienniale (Saint-Port de Joli), as well as the Junction Arts Festival (Tasmania) and inclusion in the 2011 Quebec Triennial.
Renowned for cheeky, critical and explosive works, BGL creates self-referential, site-specific installations that seek to re-contextualize the space of the gallery. These artworks are at once nostalgic, while simultaneously indebted to contemporary culture. For almost two decades now, the collective has presented major installations and performances and participated in innumerable group and solo exhibitions. BGL has been invited to show their work by a variety of institutions, including the first edition of the Bienal del fin del mundo (Ushuaia, Argentina), the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée d’art moderne Lille Métropole (France), Mercer Union (Toronto), Hart House (Toronto), the Havana Biennale (Cuba) and The Montreal Biennale. More recently BGL was chosen to represent Canada at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Paul Hardy's ambiguous and abstracted paintings are characterized by relentless material explorations: an exhaustive process of undoings and renewals which demonstrate an eclectic relationship to tradition. The artist’s subjectivity appears through different physical sites of investigation where the personal and art historical collide. In 2014 the artist took part in his first solo exhibition at Parisian Laundry, Et ensuite, on recommence. His work has been shown on numerous occasions in the Canadian Maritimes as well as in Montreal and is found in many private collections in Canada. Hardy recently pariticipated in the Symposium international d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and was the recipient of the thematic artist residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Islands).
Laurie Kang works in image-based sculpture and installation. Exhibition and project sites include Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Metropole, Erin Stump Projects and 8-Eleven Gallery (Toronto); Gallery 295 (Vancouver), Camera Austria (Graz), and Feldbuschwiesner (Berlin). Upcoming projects include a collaborative exhibition at The Power Plant Gallery with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich. She is an MFA candidate at Bard College.
Karen Kraven’s works set up unexpected encounters between sculptures and images, uncanny resemblances and misleading juxtapositions. Like a stage or film set that’s been frozen in time, these spaces confound and delight through the practiced strategies of a con artist. Recent solo exhibitions include Flip Flop, Front Punch at Mercer Union (Toronto), Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah at the Darling Foundry (Montreal), A Mucker and a Grinder at Parisian Laundry and As Above, So Below at Centre Clark (Montreal). Her work has also been shown at Centre Dare-Dare (Montreal), Leonard & Ellen Bina Gallery (Montreal) and Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto Mississauga). She has participated in artist’s residencies at The Banff Centre and with Reverse Pedagogy (Venice). From 2013-2016, she will have a Montreal Artist's Creation Studio at the Darling Foundry (Montreal).
Rick Leong’s painted landscapes are rooted in a bilingual vocabulary and style. Drawn from observation and influenced by classical Chinese paintings, imagery and symbols, his large-scale paintings incorporate a holistic view of the Canadian landscape and the artist's relationship to it. His thesis work was immediately acquired by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, affirming his emerging practice. In 2008, he was a finalist in the Royal Bank of Canada’s Painting Competition, touring at venues such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Power Plant (Toronto) and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver). In addition to having participated in many group exhibitions at various Canadian and international spaces, Leong has also been the subject of solo shows at Two Rivers Gallery (Prince George), Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax), the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and the McClure Gallery (Montreal).
Luc Paradis borrows imagery from the historical avant-garde but translates it into popular language. His references to the artistic canon are nonetheless humoristic. Paradis has been involved in many multidisciplinary projects in the artistic community in Montreal. His work has been exhibited in many galleries in Quebec, notably Parisian Laundry, Oeil de Poisson (Québec), the Baie St Paul Museum during the 27th symposium for contemporary art and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez (Montreal). Paradis was the subject of a solo exhibition at Parisian Laundry in 2014.
The practice of Celia Perrin Sidarous presents assemblages and carefully curated arrangements, following a logic that is at once internal and associative. Her photographs offer a considered way of looking at collected objects within the visual rhetoric of the studio. The artist has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina), the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal), the Banff Centre (Banff), FOFA Gallery (Montreal), WWTWO (Montreal), VU, centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie (Québec City) and Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography (Toronto). She has completed several artist residencies and has been the recipient of a number of grants and awards, among them the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award in 2011.
Justin Stephens paints from a tenuous position. This is not to suggest a lack of resolution nor a willingness for failure. In actuality, his work polarizes between a suspension of disbelief and a search for misty intangibles. Stephen’s work has recently been featured in a group exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy and will be presented in an exhibition of the 2014 Glasgow International. The artist was included in the Québec Triennial of 2011 at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal and has had solo exhibitions at Mercer Union (Toronto) and the Darling Foundry (Montreal). His work has been selected twice consecutively by the annual Royal Bank of Canada painting competition.
Janet Werner’s work as a painter focuses on the fictional portrait as a vehicle to explore notions of subjectivity and desire. Her paintings operate within and against the genre of conventional portraiture, taking found images of anonymous figures in popular culture and imbuing them with fictional personalities. The process of painting is a way of investigating the iconic power of the image, invoking imagination, memory, and projection to invest the nameless figure with human subjectivity and emotion. She has shown widely in Canada including solo shows at the Art Gallery of Windsor, SBC Gallery (Montreal), The Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon), The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), The Ottawa Art Gallery and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg). Recent group exhibitions include Project/Peinture/The Painting Project at Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal), Generation at the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton),Intrus/Intruders, at Musée du Québec (Québec) and Painting Perspectivesat AXE Neo7 (Gatineau). Internationally, Werner’s work has been exhibited in the Prague Biennale and in the survey exhibition Oh, Canadaat MASS MoCA (Massachussets). She has presented solo exhibitions at Whatiftheworld Gallery (Cape Town) Galerie Julia Garnatz (Cologne) and the Portrait Society Gallery (Milwaukee). A survey exhibition of that artist's recent artworks entitled Another Perfect Day was organized by the Kenderdine Art Gallery and is currently on tour to five locations in Canada including the Esker Foundation (Calgary), the McIntosh Gallery (London, Ontario), Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal) and the Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto). In the Fall, 2015 her work will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Esther Massry Gallery in Albany, New York.
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