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Between the lines of abstraction

Par John Pohl
Publié: The Gazette, 2012-05-05 00:00:00 -0400

"The New York school also influenced John Fox, a Montreal figurative painter who devoted 15 years in mid-career to abstraction, and then returned to figuration. Battat Contemporary is showing some of his abstract works, which are all about line and gesture." Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Between+lines+abstraction/6568869/story.html#ixzz1uJ5ElfJp

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Exposition: Abstractions
Artistes: John Fox

Sophie Jodoin & Papier 12 @ Salut Bonjour

Par Salut Bonjour @ TVA
Publié: TVA, 2012-04-28 00:00:00 -0400

Entrevue avec l'artiste Sophie Jodoin @ TVA dans le cadre de la foire Papier12. --- Interview with Sophie Jodoin @ TVA during Papier12 Art fair.

Lisez le texte complet: http://tva.canoe.ca/video/1559759444001

Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

John Fox, Abstractions : Quand Venise, ses graffitis et son stucco deviennent sources d’inspiration

Par Caroline Lévesque
Publié: pieuvre.ca, 2012-04-21 00:00:00 -0400

" C’est une exposition intime, dans laquelle il se tisse une continuité dans les thèmes et les textures des toiles. La plupart des œuvres exposées sont inspirées des nombreux séjours de l’artiste à Venise, ville qu’il affectionnait particulièrement et où il est décédé en 2008."

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.pieuvre.ca/2012/04/20/john-fox/

Exposition: Abstractions
Artistes: John Fox

Canada at the New York Fairs: Art from the Upper North Side

Par BILL CLARKE
Publié: Canadian Art, 2012-03-15 00:00:00 -0400

" Volta first-timers Battat Contemporary presented an elegant arrangement of new collages and drawings by Sophie Jodoin bookended by two larger works—Close Your Eyes (2012), a black glass piece with the work’s titular words sandblasted into it, and the charcoal-and-pastel drawing Untitled (feet) (2012), in which a woman’s strappy-heeled feet dangle disturbingly from the top of the picture frame."

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.canadianart.ca/online/2012/03/15/nyc-fairs-bill-clarke2012/

Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Hard Bargains

Par Meaghan Thurston
Publié: RoverArts.com, 2012-03-10 00:00:00 -0500

In Flag Deconstruction, paint drips and brush swirls synthesize with diamond-shaped negative spaces. Ember-orange, white and black spheres commune with ink-black floral motifs. The large, layered abstract canvas Enigmatic Revelation, my favorite piece in the exhibition, showcases a levitating fountain-pyramid. In all of the works, geometrical shapes relate to each other, creating a diversity of forms.

Lisez le texte complet: http://roverarts.com/2012/03/hard-bargains/

Exposition: Further Negotiations
Artistes: Kamrooz Aram

John Ancheta@Ten Words and One Shot

Par Ten Words and One Shot
Publié: Ten Words and One Shot, 2012-03-02 00:00:00 -0500

home Unkai No Soheki by Tsurubami treasure Sky by Cotton Casino fame I Am Very Far by Amanaz engine O Relógio by Os Mutantes

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Artistes: John Ancheta

Get Framed

Par Sasha Jackson
Publié: Mirror , 2012-01-13 00:00:00 -0500

Battat Contemporary (7245 Alexandra, #100) kicks off the year with work by Winnipeg artist and Columbia Universtity grad Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, whose exhibit Nervous Lattice looks set to excite—if the cut-out invitations are anything to go by (Jan. 19–Feb. 25)!

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.montrealmirror.com/wp/2012/01/12/get-framed/

Exposition: Nervous Lattice / Treillis Nerveux
Artistes: Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline

Rentrée automnale 2011 : partie 6 — John Ancheta «HABITAT»@ Battat contemporary

Par Eloi Desjardins
Publié: Un show de mot'arts, 2011-09-22 00:00:00 -0400

John Ancheta amorce la saison septembrale de cette galerie privée située dans le no man’s lands entre la Petite Italie et Parc-Extension. «HABITAT» présente une dizaine de toiles qui impressionneront plusieurs autant par leurs compositions que par l’épaisseur de la peinture appliquée sur leurs surfaces

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.unshowdemotarts.net/?p=2902

Exposition: HABITAT
Artistes: John Ancheta

Sophie Jodoin

Par James D. Campbell
Publié: Magenta Magazine, 2011-03-17 00:00:00 -0400

Sophie Jodoin is attempting something truly remarkable in her recent work: to name the darkness in our nature, going where angels fear to tread, as it were, in this pursuit, and palpably evoking the tremendum, or nameless Other, in the process. Her true subject matter is specifying this demonic alterity that threatens to swallow us whole and deprive us of our human wherewithal. She is a connoisseur of pain and we are, at first, unwilling voyeurs. But, soon enough and strangely, we never want to turn away.

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.magentamagazine.com/6/exhibition-reviews/sophie-jodoin

Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Immodest Modesty

Par Robert Enright
Publié: Border Crossings Magazine, 2011-03-14 00:00:00 -0400

Toronto painter Beth Stuart talks about her painting in a way that confirms how good you already think it is. (Her recent collection of paintings and sculpture, called “two sticks in a shed” was on exhibition from January 14 to February 26 at Battat Contemporary in Montreal.)

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.bordercrossingsmag.com/issue117/article/2841

Exposition: two sticks in a shed
Artistes: Beth Stuart