Todd Stewart - Shield Country

Todd Stewart
Shield Country

Vernissage jeudi 6 octobre
expo 6 - 30 octobre, 2016


Todd Stewart : I'm an illustrator and a printmaker. The works in this show are all printed, and are compositions drawing heavily on illustration, either directly on wood or paper, with varying levels of abstraction. The silkscreen process allows me to work automatically, exploring symbol, transparency and light by printing multiples of simple elements and patterns. The work on display was created in the last two years, which includes time spent on residency in Scarborough, Ontario and Saint-Louis, Senegal. Much of it is about landscape and meaning in the symbols in the spaces around us.

Carl Campeau - Mathieu Beauséjour

Carl Campeau  

Jours Ouvrables

Mathieu Beauséjour  

SPARE SOME SOCIAL CHANGE (NOTHING HAS CHANGED)

May/Mai 2015

vernissage vendredi 1 mai 18 - 21hr

Carl Campeau

Mathieu Beauséjour 

Carl Campeau vit et travaille à Montréal. Après des études en littérature et en cinéma, il glisse tranquillement vers l’art visuel. Autodidacte, il développe au fil des années une production artistique singulière dans les arts d’impression, qui se caractérise par une économie du langage plastique, par des formes géométriques simples, lignes droites, couleurs monochromes, où chaque action est déposée sur un support brut et immaculé. À mi-chemin entre l’art minimal et la nouvelle abstraction, que ce soit par ses collages, pastels ou sérigraphies, il réside toujours un désir de raconter une histoire à travers les vides laissés sur les œuvres.

Jours ouvrables
La littérature est toujours le moteur de ma création et le présent projet ne fait pas exception. Avec Jours ouvrables, j’exprime le désir de créer un dialogue entre le Frère Marie Victorin (né Conrad Kirouac), religieux canadien, botaniste et écrivain, et Jack Kerouac, écrivain, qui va au-delà du lien familial qu'on leur attribue. Jours ouvrables explore la quête des deux hommes à travers le territoire, la flore et la spiritualité. M’inspirant de la figure de style de la synecdoque, je tente de réduire les interventions sur le papier, dans l’espoir de créer un vocabulaire pictural simple qui laisse place aux interprétations les plus diverses. Jours ouvrables tente de caresser les souvenirs fanés d’une lecture marquante, d’une fleur qui éclôt ou le souvenir d’une porte de grange sur le bord de la route.

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Mathieu Beauséjour works from a stand of resistance, corruption or “semiotic terrorism”. Employing diverse techniques, he overthrows materials and concepts of power, alienation, and oppression. His works gives both an ironic and a nostalgic feel within political and artistic avant-garde. He also makes use of cultural emblems such as currency, anthems and manifestos in order to explore today’s state of affairs. His work is contextual; it is created specifically for the space it occupies, whether it is a gallery, a site of intervention, printed paper or a moment in time.

Mathieu Beauséjour lives and works in Montreal. His style is diverse and hinges especially on installation art, performance, intervention, and printing. His works have been presented at numerous art centres, public and private galleries, biennials, and museums in Canada and Europe. His work has recently been presented in different group and solo exhibitions, such as the Musée Régional de Rimouski with the exhibition La Révolte de l'imagination - Une Rétrospective (which will be on display at centre d'exposition Expression de Sainte Hyacinthe in winter 2015), at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal during the exhibition La Beauté du geste in 2014, at the Quebec Triennial of 2011 and as part of the Manif d'art 7 de Québec in 2014. Mathieu`s work has been the subject of several exhibition catalogues, the most recent to be released in March 2015. He currently has an artist's studio at the Darling Foundry (Montreal) sponsored by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
(text from galerie antoine ertaskiran)

Todd Stewart - Printwork

We are thrilled to have the gorgeous silkscreened prints of Todd Stewart aka bree,ree framed and on our walls for the month of March.

YUM YUM COLLECTIVE & FRIENDS

 

YUM YUM COLLECTIVE from Belgium

with some Canadian friends make wicked art book

MUD GUM

launched at Monastiraki !

A New MONASTIRAKI Print !

Rebecca & Quentin of L'APPÂT designed and printed this wicked poster for Monastiraki, a riff on our famed Green Wall Of Chaos !

PARTYKA!

Images from our current show - PARTYKA - a collective of 5 artists from Brooklyn. Our front vitrine is full of cut outs and hanging drawings by them....Check it out yo!

Carl Campeau - Louis Riel

Views from Carl Campeaus' exhibit Louis Riel

Jamie Q - The Possibilities Are Endless

VERNISSAGE AND BOOK LAUNCH
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 5:00PM - 7:00PM

Monastiraki presents an exhibition of new screenprints by Jamie Q derived from images in the artist's new book, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS.

Jamie Q created the artwork for the book through an open-ended process. The results are not preconceived, nor are they end points; instead, they might be described as visual records of experiments, imaginings, and decisions. Although a formal language emerges with its own symbols and strategies, there always remains room for surprise. The possibilities are endless, and they are also unpredictable. As a sampling of those possibilities, this artwork points us outward: to the unknown, to the could-be, and to the yet-to-come.

Monastiraki - Le Petit Monastère
5478 St-Laurent, Montreal


THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS is published by the McIntosh Gallery Curatorial Study Centre, October 2012. $15, edition of 500, 32 pages, full colour with gold spot, singer sewn binding, 6.5″ x 8.75″

The book is also available online at http://jamieq.net/


Jamie Q has self-published zines and art books for the past ten years as part of a studio practice that also includes painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. They are interested in the social potential of art objects and DIY distribution strategies, and in publication as “the creation of a public.” THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS is their first book produced in collaboration with a publisher. Jamie Q holds a BFA from the Alberta College of Art & Design (2002) and an MFA from Western University (2010). Originally from Edmonton, via Calgary and Montreal, they currently live and work in London, Ontario.

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VERNISSAGE + LANCEMENT DU LIVRE
VENDREDI LE 23 NOVEMBRE, 17-19h

Monastiraki présente une exposition de nouvelles sérigraphies par Jamie Q, provenant du livre récemment publié de l’artiste THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS.

Jamie Q a créé les œuvres artistiques pour ce live à travers un processus ouvert et libre. Le résultat pourrait être décrit comme un témoignage visuel d’expériences, de choses imaginées et de décisions. Les possibilités n’ont pas de limites, et elles sont aussi imprévisibles. En tant qu’échantillonnage de ces possibilités, ce travail artistique pointe vers le monde extérieur : vers l’inconnu, vers ce qui pourrait être, et vers ce qui est à venir.

L’artiste Jamie Q de London, Ontario, a publié indépendamment des fanzines et des livres d’art au cours des dix dernières années, en tant qu’éléments de sa pratique studio qui inclue également des peintures, des dessins, des imprimés et de la sculpture. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS est leur premier livre produit en collaboration avec l’éditeur. Jamie Q est diplômé du Collège d’art et de design de l’Alberta (BFA, 2002) et a obtenu un MFA de l’Université Western (2010).