January 12 - February 18, 2017
Gallery 1
Caroline Monnet: Mobilize
John Player: New paintings
Gallery 2
Ripley Whiteside: Aquariums of Toronto
Opening Thursday January 12th from 6pm to 8pm
963 rue Rachel Est
Montreal QC H2J 2J4
CAROLINE MONNET / JOHN PLAYER / RIPLEY WHITESIDE /
CAROLINE MONNET
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Caroline Monnet Mobilize 2015 3min nfb.ca/film/mobilize |
Showing in the gallery’s dedicated video room is Caroline Monnet’s video work Mobilize. Produced with the NFB, Mobilize is part of a film series addressing Aboriginal identity and representation by reworking material in the NFB’s archives. A journey by canoe into the city creates a dynamic interconnection between natural and urban spaces. In this evocative short set to a hypnotizing soundtrack by Inuk artist Tanya Taqaq, director Caroline Monnet celebrates the fierce resourcefulness of Indigenous people in adapting to the dizzying changes of the past century.
Caroline Monnet (b. 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Outaouais region, currently living in Montreal. She works in film, video, painting, sculpture and installation, and is a founding member of the Indigenous digital arts collective ITWÉ. Monnet’s work has appeared in exhibitions and festivals in Canada, the United States, France, Germany, the UK, New Zealand and elsewhere, including the Palais de Tokyo, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Toronto International Film Festival, Aesthetica, the Cannes Film Festival, the Smithsonian Institute, the Sundance Film Festival, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal) and Arsenal Contemporary Art. Monnet is currently working in Paris at the Cinéfondation du Festival de Cannes on the development of her first feature Bootlegger.
- Caroline Monnet's website: carolinemonnet.ca
- click here to download Caroline Monnet's recent C.V.
JOHN PLAYER
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| Shelter 2016 Oil on canvas 76 x 91.5 cm (30" x 36") |
Backdrop 2016 Oil on canvas 84 x 106.5 cm (33" x 42") |
Recent Past 1 2016 Oil on panel 76 x 63 cm (30” x 22”) |
Recent Past 2 2016 Oil on panel 76 x 101.5 cm (30" x 40") |
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| Recent Past 3 2016 Oil on panel 76 x 101.5 cm (30" x 40") |
Overflow 2016 Oil on panel 76 x 84 cm (30" x 33") |
Observance 2016 Oil on panel 40.5 x 51 cm (16” x 20”)  |
Settlements 2016 Oil on panel 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12" x 16”) |
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| Heights 2016 Oil on panel 76 x 115 cm (30" x 45") |
Quarry 2016 Oil on panel 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12" x 16”) |
Acquisition 2016 Oil on panel 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12" x 16”) |
On the walls of the gallery is a selection of new paintings by John Player. Player’s choice of images are diverse and far reaching, each one a piece in a puzzle of relational aesthetics and free-association. The stories and contexts of each painting are individually significant, while the ensemble evokes a message. The works selected here have a broader relation to the overuse, misuse and neglect of natural resources and romantic ideals of nature.
John Player was born in Victoria, BC in 1983. He holds a BFA in Studio Arts and a MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University. He has participated in various group exhibitions in Montreal, where he has worked and lived since 2004. John was part of the Baie St-Paul Symposium in 2015 and of the Art Omi (NY) residency programme. In 2016, he was awarded the William Blair Bruce Travel Scholarship to undertake research cycling through former Soviet Republics. Finalist of the RBC Painting Competition in 2015, his work can found in numerous private collections and in the corporate collections of Groupe Courchesne Larose and BMO Financial Group.
- John Player's page on the PFOAC website
- John Player's artist website
- click here to download John Player's recent C.V.
- Bill Clarke,
" STUDIO VIEW : John Player ", Magenta Foundation, January 2016
RIPLEY WHITESIDE
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| Gerrard 2016 Aqua-dispersion pigment, watercolour, and ink 63 x 63 cm (25" x 25") |
Spadina 2016 Aqua-dispersion pigment, watercolour, and ink 124 x 96.5 cm (49" x 38") |
Grange 2016 Aqua-dispersion pigment, watercolour, and ink 63 x 63 cm (25" x 25") |
Margueretta 2016 Aqua-dispersion pigment, watercolour, and ink 63 x 63 cm (25" x 25") |
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| Roncesvalles 2016 Aqua-dispersion pigment, watercolour, and ink 124 x 96.5 cm (49" x 38") |
Sorauren 2016 Aqua-dispersion pigment, watercolour, and ink 63 x 63 cm (25" x 25") |
Roxton 2016 Aqua-dispersion pigment, watercolour, and ink 63 x 63 cm (25" x 25") |
Bremner 2016 Aqua-dispersion pigment, watercolour, and ink 124 x 96.5 cm (49" x 38") |
At first glance, Ripley Whiteside’s suite of drawings appear as menageries of colourful and exotic aquatic species. However, Whiteside’s juxtaposition of rare, beautiful and foreign underwater species now found in the Greater Toronto Area is informed by a deeper investigation of the ecological consequences of both aquacultural development and our need for spectacle.
Originally from North Carolina, Ripley Whiteside is a Montreal-based visual artist. He graduated with a BFA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2008, and earned a MFA from the State University of New York-Buffalo in 2012. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Canada, and is the recipient of various grants and residencies.
- click here to download Ripley Whiteside’s recent C.V.
- Ripley Whiteside’s website
- click here to view a field guide of the works in the exhibition
- Laurence Stenvot, "Les aquariums de papier de Ripley Whiteside" , Le Metropolitain, December 2016
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