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Thérèse Boisclair is an international artist whose monolithic watercolor works thread together conceptual practices with material practices, excavating memory and lived experience in order to distill the essences of these immaterial events into translucent images that glow, vibrate, and reverberate together in unexpected and magical ways. More...
"Dear Therese Boisclair,
We are glad to inform you that the Artistic Committee of Imaginary Journeys, International Art Exhibition that will take place on October 2009 at the Imbarcadero Rooms of the beautiful Estense Castle, having seen and appreciated your artworks published on your website, has decided to select your name to participate at this important event organized by Trevisan International Art.
"We've been fascinated by your refined and yet powerful abstract art research where forms and colours create such an intense and emotional results. We reckon your art will bring new and creative stimulations among this exhibition; your works reveal their power through the force and the brightness of colours, through the different effects of forms, the textures, the pictorial matter, the magnetic energy from the pictorial sign which spring from the canvas. In your paintings imagination and creativeness are released through the flow of the living and acting forces on the canvas, the interaction of spaces, forms and colour connection, taking them beyond to their physical limits.
By congratulating you for the quality of your works, we would like to invite you to particpate to our Exhibition of International Art Curated by Paola Trevisan"Imaginary Journeys" which will take place at the Ferrara Museum of the Estense Castle, Italy from October 24 November 01, 2009.
Therese is seriously considering accepting this invitation. More to come...
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“Into The Void” An Unparalleled Pedestal of Contemporary Abstract Art at Icosahedron Gallery
“Into The Void” From January 8 to January 29, 2011. Opening Reception on Friday, January 14, 2011.
Icosahedron Gallery, one of West Chelsea’s premier art galleries, is pleased to welcome the new year with “Into The Void”, a group exhibition featuring a mixture of American and international artists. “Into The Void” will showcase the unparalleled artistic abilities of Robert Berry, Thérèse Boisclair, Eunah Cho, Reanna Francis, Amandine Lepoutre, John Ligtenberg, Viktor Majdandzic, Paolo Mara, Noura Masri, Alexander Motyl, Matt Roe, Maureen Stephenson, and Angela Wales Rockett. This collective of artists truly exhibit the innate gift of vitality and pure talent in today’s contemporary art world.
American artists, Robert Berry, Alexander Motyl, Matt Roe, and Angela Wales Rockett, pave the foundation of contemporary abstract art through each of their distinct and provocative aesthetics. Robert Berry uses pedagogical techniques derived from influential modern painters, Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko, to interweave the intricate and the simplicity of inherent contemporary art in its purest form, bringing art back to its pure essentialism. Alexander Motyl, who displayed his series of monochromatic Russian soldiers in December, joins Icosahedron Gallery again this January with a new series of vibrant abstract pieces indicative of Pollock that, like Berry, strip the art world back to the foundations of painting by using an interplay of color, line, shape, space, and texture. Matt Roe from Connecticut has drawn inspiration from Jackson Pollock as well to bring a world of abstract vibrancy harmoniously juxtaposed with Roe’s surrealist style to drive viewers into the void, a place where Roe places between “everyday life and the energy world”. Lastly, Angela Wales Rockett from Tacoma, Washington perfectly partners the world of the abstract with landscape art to beautifully create multitextured seascapes which possess a haunting quality that draw viewers deep into the abyss of the Contemporary American Abstract world.
Processing deeper into the chasm of the abstract art world, lies the works of Canadian artists, Eunah Cho and Thérèse Boisclair, and English artist, Maureen Stephenson. Eunah Cho, a Korean artist based in Ontario, uses a strong contrast of colors, line, and the repetition of action to create exemplars of pure abstract art on Hanji, traditional hand-made Korean paper. Thérèse Boisclair, also from Ontario, uses acrylics on tissue paper to exhibit alluring bursts of color and textured pieces that she coins as her “perfect medium”. Maureen Stephenson, from the north-east coast of England, uses water as the central figure of her reflective and beautifully textured works paired with her inspiration from the Romantic movement to instill the true joy and passion of the artist.
European artists, John Ligtenberg, Viktor Majdandzic, and Amandine Lepoutre are an absolute trifecta of European abstract art exhibiting qualities in their works that are insurmountable on the vast art scale. John Ligtenberg from The Netherlands uses warm colors and a blend of acrylic and oil paints to portray an amalgamation of chaos and order exhibited in the beautifully destructive quality of his works. Also, from The Netherlands, Viktor Majdandzic uses wonderfully woven geometrical shapes to display a world of visual concepts to support a visual perception of infinite possibilities. Like Majdandzic, Parisian artist, Amandine Lepoutre, uses geometry and emotions congregate with perspective and color where lines meet or clash to create a series of work that caputre the ever ending motion of the library.
Delving deeper into the microcosm of abstract works, “Into the Void” will also feature works from Reanna Francis, Noura Masri, and Paolo Mara whose works intertwine the abstract and figurative art worlds. Reanna Francis, an Australian artist, uses evocative depictions of the female figure, eroticism, and a breathtaking spectrum of colors to highlight the strength of her troubling life’s tale. Noura Masri, a Middle Eastern artist, masterfully works her expressionistic and free figurative forms to create an investigative journey into the artist’s world. Lastly, Paolo Mara from Italy will display his abstract and abstract figurative pieces that take viewers on a transcultural journey alongside the artist’s past experiences.
For more information or to schedule a private viewing contact:
Icosahedron Gallery
E-mail: info@icosahedrongallery.org
Telephone: (212) 966-3897