Exhibitions

Mark Timmings @ pfoac221

Narvaez Bay: Tidal Predictions for 2012 21 November - 19 December 2015 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is proud to present Narvaez Bay: Tidal Predictions for 2012 in its project space pfoac221 . The score for Narvaez Bay: Tidal Predictions for 2012 forms a calendar in which the daily tide levels predicted to occur over the course of a year are transcribed onto... Read More

UNIVERSAL COBRA

SHUVINAI ASHOONA AND SHARY BOYLE 7 November - 19 December 2015 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FEHELEY FINE ARTS Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present its newest collaboration with Feheley Fine Arts: the exhibition Universal Cobra: Shuvinai Ashoona & Shary Boyle. Visitors will be able to discover the unique universes of these two great artists and the collaborative drawings made for... Read More

Roberto Pellegrinuzzi

Résonances 29 August - 17 October 2015 Résonances For several years now, my visual art has been focused in part on photography, its modes of representation, history and characteristics, and its mechanics and physical properties. Curated by Joan Foncuberta, the theme of Le mois de la photo 2015 is the “post photographic condition.” I was invited to... Read More

InCollabo Hadès @ pfoac221

Marc Audette ↔ Diane Génier ↔ François Chalifour commissaire: Richard Gagnier 29 August - 3 October 2015 INCOLLABO HADÈS (English version available soon) Travaux de collaboration entre artistes. Marc Audette ↔ Diane Génier ↔ François Chalifour Si des artistes en arts visuels convient la figure d’Orphée comme agent provocateur à une réflexion qui investit la pratique du dessin, autant que celle de la photographie, c’est qu’il y... Read More

Naomi Cook @ Centre Space (Toronto)

Allegory Algorithm 8 August - 5 September 2015 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present Naomi Cook’s first solo exhibition in Toronto: Allegory Algorithm. This exhibition addresses different modes of data visualization used by the artist as allegories for current socio-political events. In turn, these works are complemented by more classical allegorical drawings that speak to the... Read More

Andreas Rutkauskas

Oil! 18 July - 15 August 2015 Taking its title from a 1927 Upton Sinclair novel, the single channel video Oil!, brings the viewer on a journey through the jerker line system, developed in the 1860s and still used today to draw crude oil from the wells. What begins as an ambiguous sculpture in motion is eventually... Read More

Ripley Whiteside

A Peaceable Kingdom 18 July - 15 August 2015 The “New Nature” in Ripley Whiteside’s A Peaceable Kingdom A primary source of inspiration for Ripley Whiteside’s series of drawings is American painter Edward Hicks’s (1780-1849) series, The Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1825-49), which literally depicts the Bible verses Isaiah 11:6-8; paintings portray, for example, a wolf lying down with a... Read More

John Player & Michel Huneault

Nouveaux tableaux & 10 Minutes à Tohoku 14 May - 20 June 2015 John Player’s work presents a restrained and detached view of surveillance culture. Endless defense from an unknown but constant threat is unveiled in appropriated images from mass media, newspapers and archives found largely on the Internet. The imagery shares a kind of aesthetic of power and control, now commonplace and... Read More

Marie-Jeanne Musiol @ Centre Space (Toronto)

Luminous Fields 3 - 30 May 2015 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is proud to present for the second year in a row a Featured Exhibition of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival: Luminous Fields by Marie-Jeanne Musiol. For 20 years, Marie-Jeanne Musiol has been capturing the luminous imprints of plants with electromagnetic photography. She is presently assembling an extensive... Read More

Lucie Duval @ pfoac221

L'éloge de la perte (In Praise of Loss) 11 April - 9 May 2015 L'éloge de la perte (In Praise of Loss) The dichotomy implied by the title of Lucie Duval’s exhibition sets the tone for an equally paradoxical sensory experience. Taxonomy of a private and playful universe, L’éloge de la perte renders a poetic exploration in ink where the artist fully surrenders herself... Read More

Mark Clintberg @ Centre Space (Toronto)

Vitrine 28 March - 25 April 2015 'Vitrine' features a suite of new works that address expressions of affection and protection in close, intimate relationships by drawing on the western museological tradition of glass display cases. These works are not entirely celebratory, however, since they take into account the use of the vitrine as a tool that... Read More

Nelson Henricks

Endless Paper 19 March - 25 April 2015 A hand enters the screen and removes sheets of paper one at a time. This action continues in a seemingly infinite manner, without beginning or end. This work is an excerpt from the three-channel video installation, The Sirens. Nelson Henricks was born in Bow Island, Alberta and is a graduate... Read More

Dil Hildebrand

A few good words that still work, and the tide 19 March - 25 April 2015 A few good words that still work, and the tide represents a synthesis of Dil Hildebrand's two previous series. Alternately flat and spacious, this new hybrid body of work examines the artist's ongoing interest in architecture and painting from a new angle. “The title of the exhibition is taken from... Read More

Kent Monkman @ Centre Space (Toronto)

Expelling the Vices 31 January - 28 February 2015 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is proud to present new paintings by Kent Monkman. In keeping with earlier works that explore the mythologies of Western culture illuminating truths about European colonization of North America, Monkman casts his alter ego in the roles of four powerful and mythological females: Danae, Leda, Minerva... Read More

Ed Pien @ pfoac221

Open Studio 24 January - 7 March 2015 As well as using the pfoac221 project space as a studio during his time in Montreal, Ed Pien will conduct four participatory drawing sessions open to the public. Visitors can contribute to the artist's drawing process by making a quick drawing on site that Ed Pien will use as the... Read More

Ed Pien

Strangers in a Strange Land 23 January - 7 March 2015 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is proud to present new drawings by Ed Pien in parallel with the National Gallery of Canada's presentation of his masterwork Ad Infinitum in the exhibition 'Shine a Light'. Relinquishing the comforts and habits of the known, his imagery and his processes reveal the risks and... Read More

Jeff Kulak

Next Best 11 December 2014 - 17 January 2015 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain presents a solo exhibition of new work by Jeff Kulak. Kulak's unique approach to sculpture in this exhibition draws from classical sculpture presentation, ironic dramatizations, and 3D productivity graphs. S A D N E S S C A N Y O N I'm the king of... Read More