Exhibitions

CORNU COPIAE is an installation of hybrid sculptural works that explore our relationship with the object in the context of overconsumption. It takes a critical look at the evolution of this relationship between the human consumer and the consumer product and focuses on the many paradoxes that mark this relationship at a level of consumption beyond that of useful or true need.

Excess and overload characterize this exhibition and reminds us of this balance that has recently been undermined by the appearance of covid-19 and that researchers have correlated with our lifestyle. Humans who use glyphosate to protect themselves from plants deemed harmful have in turn become invasive species through their ecological footprint.

Considering that this phenomenon stems from a capitalist and patriarchal system that pulls the strings of an image-based society, the artist favors an anarchic aesthetic, created with incongruous arrangements of fragmented materials that break with their original context.

SYLVIE PILOTTE wishes to thank the New Brunswick Arts Board for its support.

Abstract Painting

Free!

In the kaleidoscopic ballet of light, color and movement, imaginary perspectives teeming with life open up. Lives in the form of urban, rural, underwater, nocturnal, telescopic landscapes and how many more, which, under the skill of the artist, reveal phantasmagorical universes where each parcel of this world is transformed into a true exaltation of the beauty.

"Over the years, my creative approach changes and evolves by trying different means and with new improvisational tools. The painting guides me, it takes charge and it lives. In the last few months, with this pandemic, some of my creations have come to life, including the creation of distancing. The paint distances itself from the other colors, from everything that surrounds this parchment evoking a process of distancing.

Steven Scott Fyfe lives in Saint-Lambert, QC.

Installation, Textile Art + Passep'Art Project

Free

- OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, June 16 from 5 to 7 p.m. – Centre des arts (82 Canada Road)
- ARTIST TALK: Saturday, July 30 from 10 to 11 a.m. – Place de l’artisan (45 Victoria Road)

BIOGRAPHY
Since 1996, the artist therapist has lived in Kedgwick, New Brunswick, in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. She works as a community worker. Her artistic experience brings her closer to art therapy by encouraging the creative process and promoting a body-based approach. She gives different workshops in schools like art textile, stained glass, mandala and journaling with the combination of drawing and writing. She also teaches bilateral guided drawing to help heal trauma. The three steps are establishing safety, calm and stability within oneself and one's environment. Accepting triggers and traumatic memories and coming to terms with how we have survived by integrating so we can finally move forward in life.

ARTIST STATEMENT
“My artistic experiences have evolved from a background of studies and practice in fine craft, textiles and sociology. I have developed a parallel specialization in Art Therapy with the certitude that self-expression through the visual arts offers a pathway to understanding our human experience. Working with my intuition in the creative process has given me the opportunity to express myself with complete freedom and has allowed my unique, artistic voice to develop. I work steadfastly to communicate my ideas from a place of connection and centeredness."

Free!

VÉRONIQUE OUELLET BOUCHARD, a self-taught artist, was born in Edmundston and is the face behind V-Ro's Art creations. Passionate about drawing and painting from an early age, she thrives on the beauty and possibilities behind any abstract work. She is inspired by bright colours, movements, and textures to create canvases that speak for themselves.

LOUISE GIROUX is a figurative painter who lives in Saint-Basile, NB. Her paintings pay homage to her French Acadian roots and to the essential role of women in our society. Her style emanates the vibrant spirit of the Acadian-Brayon people of Madawaska County. Picturesque landscapes, portraits, still lifes and historical illustrations are brought to life using harmonious colours and solid composition.

Born in Edmundston, GENEVIÈVE VIOLETTE, has a B.F.A in Fine Arts (Photography & Printmaking) from the Université de Moncton. After her studies, she received a creation grant from ArtsNB for her project entitled Purgatory as Purification. She currently pursues her career as a photographer and an artist in her recently acquired studio space. 

Talk and Book Signing : Saturday, June 11 from 10 to 11: 30 AM

The exhibition «Transgressions d’un dessinateur de BD» aims to highlight the particularities of a comic strip and a sketch by juxtaposing them to break the monotony.

To do this, ROLAND DAIGLE uses illustrations from his comic strip, "Alerte à Richibouctou", and his "sketches of the day". In fact, every morning, the cartoonist spends time drawing his "sketch of the day" on his electronic tablet. These are drawings that are only meant to please the eye, without following any specific rules. His sketches are often based on themes used in comics, but do not have a continuous story, giving the viewer the opportunity to use their imagination to interpret them.

In contrast, the illustrations from his comic book "Alerte à Richibouctou" are more studied and rigid. They required two years of work. Scenes initially drawn in pencil were digitally redone to arrive at the final product. The cartoonist adapted his style to be more conceptual in his line and his intention.

“Each panel was drawn and redrawn many times. Sometimes I had to use hundreds of layers.”

For ROLAND DAIGLE, comics are an art form that can encourage pride in the French language and everyday Acadian heroes.

"Like individuals evolving in society, juxtaposed cells communicate with each other and coexist, creating intimate links that make life possible in an organic symbiosis”. Nicole Haché

"Collective Autobiography" was created during a cross-cultural creative residency that brought together the Aboriginal, Francophone and Anglophone communities of New Brunswick.

NICOLE HACHÉ went out to meet the people and documented, through photographs, several individuals in each of these communities. The installation reflects Nicole Haché's knowledge and sensitivity to interpersonal relationships and the importance of collective symbiosis.

Formerly a medical laboratory technologist, NICOLE HACHÉ combines histology with an artistic approach that interweaves knowledge and creativity.  She believes that interactions are necessary for society to function properly, and each one of them influences the person we become on a daily basis, just as our cells interact with each other to ensure the activity of the human body.

Her installation celebrates diversity and allows for reflection on the importance of each person's role in the community.

Crows, frozen in their movements, are surprisingly poetic. Having photographed them daily for several months, the artist found herself with a collection of images that spectacularly deconstruct the gestures of these black birds. Studying them so closely, she couldn’t help but be moved by such majesty and she realized that the existence of a single crow contains all the splendor of the world. Time stood still during that winter and the crows became for the artist a symbol of resistance. Through this exhibition of photographs, she wants to pay tribute to them by revealing the courage and elegance of these unloved birds.