Celebrate Quebec Art Glass! – Célébrons l’art du verre contemporain du Québec!

POUR DIFFUSION IMMÉDIATE
1 février 2010
CÉLÉBRONS L’ART DU VERRE DU QUÉBEC!
Montréal, ville de verre 2010
Exposition virtuelle mettant en vedette les meilleurs artistes du verre au Québec

C’est avec grand enthousiasme que Patricia Gelinas Gallery annonce sa participation à Montréal, Ville de Verre 2010. Patricia Gelinas Gallery est une galerie d’art virtuelle spécialisée dans les pièces uniques et les séries limitées d’œuvres d’art décoratives, fonctionnelles et portables créées par des artistes figurant parmi les meilleurs au Québec en métiers d’art contemporains. La galerie se consacre à la promotion de ses artistes et de leurs œuvres exceptionnelles sur la scène mondiale par le biais de la puissance de l’Internet, tout en aidant ceux-ci à naviguer dans le marché de l’art. Patricia Gelinas Gallery présentera en ligne une exposition intitulée Célébrons l’art du verre contemporain du Québec! L’exposition présentera une éblouissante collection d’œuvres contemporaines d’artistes du verre québécois tout en présentant Montréal comme ville importante d’une grande culture, un foyer pour les artistes de renommée mondiale. L’exposition en ligne, Célébrons l’art du verre contemporain du Québec!, débutera le 1er Février 2010 au www.patriciagelinasgallery.com et se poursuivra pendant toute l’année 2010. C’est une exposition à laquelle s’ajouteront de nouvelles œuvres tout au long de l’année. La galerie est fière de présenter ces artistes extraordinaires :

Dominique Beaupré St-Pierre
Catherine Benoit
Marie Pierre Daigle
Carole Frève
Karina Guevin
Catherine Labonté
Nicola Mainville
Caroline Ouellette
Patrick Primeau
Natasha St. Michael

Toutes informations : Patricia Gelinas |  514.570.9770  |info@patriciagelinasgallery.com |www.patriciagelinas.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 1, 2010
CELEBRATE QUÉBEC CONTEMPORARY ART GLASS!
Montreal, City of Glass 2010
A virtual exhibition showcasing Québec’s most exciting glass artists

Patricia Gelinas Gallery is thrilled to announce its participation at Montreal, City of Glass 2010. Patricia Gelinas Gallery is an online virtual art gallery specialising in one-of-a-kind and limited series decorative, functional and wearable works of art created by Quebec’s leading contemporary fine craft artists. The gallery is devoted to promoting its artists and their brilliant works on the world stage via the power of the Internet while helping artists navigate the business of art.
Patricia Gelinas Gallery will hold an online virtual exhibition entitled Celebrate Québec Contemporary Art Glass! The exhibition will showcase a dazzling array of contemporary glass works by Quebec’s most exciting glass artists while highlighting Montreal as a premiere city of exceptional culture, home to world class artists. Celebrate Québec Contemporary Art Glass! will open on February 1, 2010 at www.patriciagelinasgallery.com and be ongoing for all of 2010 with new works being added to the exhibition as the year advances. The gallery is proud to feature these outstanding glass artists:

Dominique Beaupré St-Pierre
Catherine Benoit
Marie Pierre Daigle
Carole Frève
Karina Guevin
Catherine Labonté
Nicola Mainville
Caroline Ouellette
Patrick Primeau
Natasha St. Michael

All inquiries: Patricia Gelinas | 514. 570. 9770 | info@patriciagelinasgallery.com | www.patriciagelinasgallery.com

News from the Patricia Gelinas Gallery!

 

Celebrate Quebec Contemporary Art Glass!

 at 2010 Montreal City of Glass

  

 Patricia Gelinas Gallery is thrilled to announce the names of the artists participating in our online exhibition  Celebrate Quebec Contemporary Art Glass! as part of the activities associated with the 2010 Montreal City of Glass: 

Dominique Beaupré St. Pierre 

Catherine Benoit 

Marie-Pierre Daigle 

Carole Frève 

Karina Guevin 

Catherine Labonté 

Nicola Mainville 

Caroline Ouellette 

Patrick Primeau 

Natasha St. Michael 

The virtual exhibition will premiere online February 1, 2010 at  

 Here is a preview of what you will see…

C’est finalement arrivé au jardin Inconnu by Dominique Beaupré St-Pierre

Rupture (branche) by Caroline Ouellette

   

Success at the Cheongju Craft Biennale… 4 artists represented by the Patricia Gelinas Gallery were selected by a jury of their peers to participate at the prestigious Unity and Diversity exhibition for the Cheongju International Craft Biennale (CICB) in South Korea where Canada was selected to be the guest country at the 2009 biennale. 

Wood artist Jessica Beauchemin,  Glass artists Dominique Beaupré St-Pierre & Nicola Mainville, Jeweller Claudio Pino, and the one and only Natasha St.Michael exhibited works at CICB which ran from September 23 – November 1, 2009. 

“The CICB is one of the largest and most prestigious craft exhibitions in the world. The exhibition is a statement of excel­lence for Canadian craft. It is unmatched as an expression of the best in Canadian craft.” said Dr. Sandra Alfoldy, curator for Unity and Diversity. 

 Over 1 000 artists from more than 40 countries participate each year, with over half a million visitors in attendance during the month-long event. With a focus on high-quality functional and sculptural craft, the Biennale attracts world-wide attention from collectors, curators, academics, craftspeople and the public.  

Magnificence Stellaire by Claudio Pino

Art of Craft at the Museum of Vancouver…A selection of the works from Union & Diversity will appear in the Art of Craft exhibition being held at the Museum of Vancouver. The exhibition is part of the Cultural Olympiad activities for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Included are brilliant works by Claudio Pino and Dominique Beaupré St-Pierre. The show opens on January 13, 2010. If you are in Vancouver, this exhibition is not to be missed! 

Nicola Mainville receives art grant…Nicola Mainville received an important grant from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec! This grant will allow Mainville to devote his time for the next 9 months to research and development of perfecting the sound on his musical sculpture xylophones. In addition he will create MP3 sound recordings so very soon you we will be able to share with you the magical sounds of Mainville’s sculpture-instruments. Looking forward to it! 

Cristallophone by Nicola Mainville

 

ARTV’s Vente de Garage …Marie-Pierre Daigle will appear on this season’s  Vente de Garage.  In this television program,  artists are matched with Quebec celebrities and asked to transform a vintage, discarded or sentimental object owned by the celebrity into a work of art.  On past seasons Natasha St. Michael transformed ballerina Geneviève Guérard’s pointe shoes from her final performance with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal and Carole Frève transformed a card table owned by Vincent Graton. Looking forward to Marie-Pierre Daigle’s appearance on the show!

Karina Guevin has been invited to teach flameworking at the Corning Museum of Glass this summer.  The Corning Museum of Glass is where the world—from serious scholars to those simply interested in discovering—turns to learn more about the art, history, craft, or technology of this incredible material. http://www.cmog.org/dynamic.aspx?id=156

Necklace on Vessel, Vert by Karina Guevin

 For additional information on our artists or to enquirie about their available works please contact the gallery: 

info@patriciagelinasgallery 

+1. 514. 570. 9770 

Patricia Gelinas Gallery will celebrate 2010 Montreal, City of Glass!

 

 

 

Cultivation by Natasha St. Michael

 

2010 marks the year Montreal, Ville de verre or Montreal, City of Glass.  There are many activities going on around the city and the Patricia Gelinas Gallery will hold an online virtual exhibition featuring our brilliant glass artists.  Our goal is to promote our glass artists and their work on the world stage while highlighting Montreal as a premiere city, home to world class glass artists. We will be welcoming more glass artists to the gallery in the coming weeks so keep checking back to discover their dazzling works.

 I have received many questions asking about the various techniques and different ways glass artists work, so I thought we would start glass year early in order to learn more about our glass artists and their art form so that when glass year starts we will be able to really appreciate what we are witnessing.

Artists choose glass as their medium for many reasons but I always hear the same comments from all the glass artists I know. First of all they are drawn to glass because of the freedom of expression it offers them. There seem to be endless possibilities to explore with the glass and artists are drawn to this passionate journey the glass takes them on, facing the constraints and limitations of the glass like an exciting challenge. Glass also provides the artist with multiple possibilities for texture, transparency, opacity and color. There is also a really lovely sense of community in the glass world as artists often require the help of trusted colleagues when producing much of their work. One word I always hear artists use when describing their work is, passion!

Catherine Labonté at work in the studio.

Studio glass and glass sculptures are the modern use of glass as an artistic medium to produce sculptures or two dimensional works of art. The techniques used to create these sculptures include stained glass, working glass in a torch flame, also known as lampworking, glass bead making, glass casting, and of course glassblowing.

Glass blowing began in the Roman Empire and Italy has refined the techniques of glass blowing ever since. Most refined artisitic techniques of glassblowing such as incalmo, reticello, zanfirico, latticino were developed in Italy. The virtuoso Québecois glass artist Patrick Primeau who will be joining the gallery soon, works in these difficult and challenging techniques. I will tell you more about Primeau and his art form in a future article.

Bien au frais by Catherine Labonté

Catherine Labonté uses three different techniques when creating her glass sculptures,  glass blowing, pâte de verre and image transfer. Creating the glass domes that house her precious characters, Labonté inflates the hot molten glass into a bubble with the aid of a blow pipe. Of course this requires masterful skill and precision to get the dome exactly right, void of bubbles and symmetrical. Her characters are made with pâte de verre, which basically is a form of kiln casting that involves making a glass paste from frit (small pieces or powdered glass) placing it in a negative mould and then firing it so it fuses together.

Necklace on Vessel, Rouge by Karina Guevin

Karina Guevin’s work is a brilliant example of glass blowing, glass bead making and lampworking. Take a close look the intricate detail of her beads. Each one is lampworked over a torch flame, each bead a one of a kind sculpture in itself.  After Guevin designs her piece she then must plan how to construct it. She lampworks the glass by placing glass rods or tubes over a flame until it is in a molten state. She then forms the glass by blowing and shaping it with tools and hand movements. As she works the glass, it must be kept at the same temperature or else it will shatter. It is placed in a kiln oven to anneal it which will prevent the glass form cracking. Her vessels or vases that serve as fantastic pedestals for her glass jewelry are created using glassblowing technique.

The Dragon Song by Nicola Mainville

Nicola Mainville combines cast & laminated glass his mixed media musical creations. He uses glass because it is a material with a great potential for resonance. With high density, glass vibrates easily, projecting sound and allowing it to slide without being muted. Laminated glass is made by bonding two or more layers of glass together with layers of resin under heat and pressure, in order to create a single sheet of glass. Casting glass is the process of allowing molten glass to solidify in a mould.

Transitional by Natasha St. Michael

Natasha St. Michael does not produce her glass beads with which she weaves; however her work is a perfect example of contemporary hand bead woven glass art works. The crystallized glass beads allow St. Michael to explore the inter connection of life through her intricate hand bead woven structures. The visual effect of the glass beads woven together, capture the omnipresence of complexity and continuum.

For more information visit the gallery www.patriciagelinasgallery.com

Life Through Art; the porcelain works of Lisette Savaria

Être by Lisette Savaria

Porcelain is the medium by which Lisette Savaria expresses her artistic form. Her media influences her works to the extent that the constraints and limitations in the porcelain are not only its formal qualities, but for Savaria they are a means to express life.   

From her career beginnings in 1970, Lisette Savaria chose to create one of a kind works of art in porcelain. It was a visceral calling within her, a need to challenge the material in order to discover its strengths, its resistances and its structural changes. It has been a journey of exploration to investigate porcelain through its finishes, carving, using subtraction or addition and perforations while subjecting the porcelain to high firing temperatures (1305 Celsius).

Lisette Savaria’s creations rely on continuous research and development. She finds stability in her full time commitment to working in porcelain as it contributes to cultivating a certain trust in life with all its ups and downs. Each piece has its own importance, it is a constant link to the next work. Despite faults or pretence to failure, each of Savaria’s porcelain creations become a  successive propeller, an accumulation of previous works.

 Porcelain has served as the ambassador for Savaria’s many trips around the world and her numerous human encounters with people of different nationalities. Porcelain is part of Savaria’s evolution as an artist and as an individual. It is a journey of self reflection, learning more about herself through the qualities of the medium: patience, refinement, courage, perseverance, love of beauty, light, nature, development of gaze, observation of the tiny and larger than oneself, respecting the limits of the material and oneself, respect for the inspiration and the receiving of essence.
Porcelain develops and cultivates in Lisette Savaria a certain awe and wonder. It is precisely this that she strives to share through her work.

Pages de la vie by Lisette Savaria

For enquiries visit www.patriciagelinasgallery.com

Personal service: +1. 514.570.9770

Élisabeth Wannaz interviewed on TV!

Fibre artist and Hatter, Élisabeth Wannaz was interviewed on Radio Canada ( the French channel of CBC). Click on the link below to watch the interview and get a rare glimpse inside her studio where you will see her create the wool and silk felt with which she makes her hats and other artworks! To learn more about felting, go to the articles section of this blog.

http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/c_est_ca_la_vie/2009-2010/Entrevue.asp?idDoc=95302

Vent d’automne (Autumn Wind), 2009

Patricia Gelinas Gallery is thrilled to announce it’s official launch!

 Patricia Gelinas Gallery is an online virtual art gallery that specialises in one-of-a-kind and limited series decorative, functional and wearable works of art created by Quebec’s leading contemporary fine craft artists.

 The journey to get here has had a few bumps and tears, but sheer determination rooted in my heart’s wish to share wonderful works of art with the world is what has kept me focused.  The future is always in the process and I look forward with enthusiasm as art lovers around the globe discover the gallery’s brilliant artists.  Quebec fine craft artists are among the best in the world, deserving to be represented on the world stage with integrity, passion and professionalism. I feel honored that they have entrusted me with this task.

I invite you to visit the gallery where you will discover magnificent works by the following artists:

The finest in glass sculpture by the playful, exciting young artist Catherine Labonté whose works take us into a whimsical universe where animals take on narrative roles. We find penguins with top hats and smart little cats, all with their own sweet yet thought provoking story to tell.  

Using traditional techniques of knit, crochet and lace-making Nadine Fenton creates wearable sculpture in metal. Her designs are sumptuous pieces that are visually stimulating, ask questions, evoke emotions and add beauty to their environment.

Élisabeth Wannaz who creates silk and merino wool textile which she then designs and constructs into exquisite wearable works of art. Her hats  are every art lover’s and  fashionista’s dream as they are one-of-a-kind, hand-made, pure haute couture. Elisabeth also creates hanging wall sculptures.

Ivan Dobren jewellery is superbly crafted allowing the finest materials and natural gemstones to be showcased in his crisp geometric designs.

The one and only Nicola Mainville, glass artist, wood artist and musician. Nicola’s magical works of art are at once functional musical instruments and incredible finely crafted sculptures. Everyone I have ever witnessed who comes into contact with his works are completely enthralled. Soon I will add sound to the gallery web site so you will be able to experience the full magic of his work. 

Natasha St. Michael whose hand beaded masterpieces require months and endless hours of dedicated work. Thinking that all of her thoughts are going into her beading as the creation takes form, truly takes my breath away. Collectors are fascinated by the intricacy of the detail found in her pieces. Natasha  creates her works as she travels the world. Truly wonderful! 

Jessica Beauchemin explores fine woodworking.  Transforming wood and interlacing it with mother-of-pearls, stones, metals and fibres she creates exquisite sculptural, yet functional objects.  Inspired by different eras and cultures Jessica’s pieces are at the crossroads between “here” and “elsewhere”. Her hair ornaments transport us to another time and place.

Internationally acclaimed Lisette Savaria is a philosophical artist. Her moving works transport us into a world of femininity, delicate and strong. Her universe is one of deep humanity, warm and sensitive. Lisette’s works concern the beauty and fragility of humankind and that found in nature, asking us to pause, listen, look and feel.

I feel so much gratitude to the great artists who allow me to represent them and to each and everyone of you who take the time to visit www.patriciagelinasgallery.com who join our facebook fan page , who follow me on twitter, who read the gallery blog and for just being you and sharing in the love of art.

I invite you to visit the gallery at www.patriciagelinasgallery.com 

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Best  wishes and kindest regards to all!

Patricia  G.

Rêver by Catherine Labonté