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NORTHERN EXPOSURE, GROUP EXHIBITION, LOS ANGEL
ES

Olga Korper Gallery is presenting works by Melanie Authier, Sandra Brewster and Katherine Takpannie as part of Northern Exposure, an initiative of the Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles, highlighting Canadian contemporary art galleries.

Northern Exposure | L.A. Art Week

February 24 – March 21, 2024

*Opening Reception, February 27, 2024, 6-9pm

Praz-Delvallade, 6150 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048

Curated by Margot Ross and Michael Slenske

Participating Galleries: Blouin Division, Bradley Ertaskiran, Feheley Fine Arts, Franz Kaka, Olga Korper Gallery, Pangée, Patel Brown, and Stephen Bulger Gallery.

New Alchemy, acrylic on canvas, 48” x 36”, 2023




GROUP EXHIBITION, OLGA KORPER GALLERY, TORONTO

Winter Group Exhibition 

January 13 – February 3, 2024

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 13th from 2-5 pm

Lois Andison, Melanie Authier, Lynne Cohen, Matt Donovan, Gerald Ferguson, Robert Fones, Shabnam K. Ghazi, Angela Grauerholz, Robert

Mapplethorpe, Kelly Mark, Ken Matsubara, Ken Nicol, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Ron Shuebrook, Barbara Steinman, and Katherine Takpannie

For more information: https://www.olgakorpergallery.com/exhibitions/winter-group-exhibition/

Gulleys and Gambits, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 108”, 2021



ART MIAMI 2023

Recent works on view at Olga Korper Gallery - Booth AM137

VIP Opening Night, Tuesday, Dec. 5 (ticketed event)

General Admission: Wednesday, Dec. 6 - Sunday, Dec. 10

For more information please see https://www.artmiami.com/

Leviathan’s Wake, acrylic on canvas, 54” x 46”, 2023




LA NAPOULE ARTIST RESIDENCY, LA NAPOULE, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 2023

Authier is one of ten participants in the month long artist-in-residence program at Château de la Napoule in the South of France.

The Canadian Artists at La Napoule residency program is graciously funded by the La Napoule Art Foundation and Fondation David R. Graham.




ART TORONTO 2023 - ART FAIR

Canada’s international contemporary and modern art fair

Recent works on view at Olga Korper Gallery - Booth A36

Works available at Andrew Rafacz Gallery - Booth C14

Collector’s Preview & VIP Opening Night, Thursday, October 26 (ticketed event)

General Admission: Friday, October 27 - Sunday, October 29

For more information please see https://www.arttoronto.ca/en/home.html

Venture Myth, acrylic on canvas, 56" x 66", 2023



REVIEW IN THE CHICAGO READER, CHICAGO

Contrasts and connections: “Friendship’s Death” is alive with sensuous forms and pleasurable color by Alan Pocaro

https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/contrasts-and-connections-friendships-death-andrew-rafacz-melissa-leandro/

Phantom Season, acrylic on canvas, 50” x 60”, 2022


REVIEW IN NEWCITY ART, CHICAGO

Freedom in Abstraction: A Review of “Friendship’s Death” at Andrew Rafacz by Annette Lepique

https://art.newcity.com/2023/06/08/freedom-in-abstraction-a-review-of-friendships-death-at-andrew-rafacz/

Museum of the Wind, acrylic on canvas, 41” x 36”, 2023



GROUP EXHIBITION - ANDREW RAFACZ GALLERY - CHICAGO, IL

Friendship’s Death

Featuring works by Melanie Authier, Leslie Baum, Judy Dolnick, Magalie Guérin, Melissa Leandro

OPENING FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2023

5 - 8pm

On view through Saturday, July 15, 2023

For more information please see: https://andrewrafacz.com/exhibitions/group-exhibition/


ANDREW RAFACZ is pleased to present Friendship’s Death, an exhibition of work by Melanie Authier, Leslie Baum, Judy Dolnick, Magalie Guérin, and Melissa Leandro in Gallery One and Two. The exhibition opens Friday, June 2nd and continues through Saturday, July 15th, 2023.

The title of the exhibition, Friendship’s Death, is inspired by the 1987 film of the same name, in which a robot from the distant galaxy of Procylon was sent to Earth as an omen and oracle of high celestial intelligence. Her mission is to examine the human condition and offer insight into the inevitabilities of the future. At the conclusion of the film, she leaves only a recorded message containing a five-minute sequence of abstract visuals—a diary of her experience, which the audience is left to decode.

In this exhibition we are invited to similarly decode each artist's respective visual language, connecting to the ways in which they communicate complex ideas through abstraction.  This exhibition hopes to operate as a sojourn to another place, creating moments for the viewer to move through a wide bandwidth of geographical time and space, by way of a select group of multigenerational artists, connected by their investigation of shape and color, and the impossible object.

Moon Rattler, acrylic on canvas, 52” x 60”, 2023

ART TORONTO 2022 - ART FAIR

Canada’s international contemporary and modern art fair

Collector’s Preview & Opening Night, Thursday, October 27 (evening-ticketed)

General Admission: Friday, October 28 - Sunday, October 30

Recent works on view at Olga Korper Gallery - Booth A05 and in the Art Toronto VIP lounge.

For more information please see https://www.arttoronto.ca/en/home.html

Art Toronto VIP Lounge:

(Left to Right) Shadow Boxer, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 108”, Exoskeleton, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 84”, Through the wild eye, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 108”


SPLASH 2022 - ART AUCTION

Authier’s work featured in the Splash 2022 40th Anniversary Live Auction Event.

Online bidding is now open. Live Auction event Saturday, October 22, 2022 - 6pm PT / 9pm ET

To view the Splash Art 2022 Collection and place a bid, please visit www.SplashArtAuction.com.

Cowgirl Melee, acrylic on canvas, 43” x 36”, 2018



FOIRE PAPIER 2022 - MONTREAL

Authier’s “Perch”, watercolour & ink on paper, 2013 will be on view as part of the Collection Loto-Quebec, booth/kiosque P02.

Papier - Canadian Contemporary Art Fair

VIP Thursday, August 25 (evening-ticketed)

General Admission: Friday, August 26 - Sunday, August 29

For more information please see http://papiermontreal.com/en/visitors/

Collection Loto-Quebec, Papier 2022

PAINTING ACQUIRED BY ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON - PERMANENT COLLECTION

Authier's painting Harlequin is currently hanging in the permanent collection galleries at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Harlequin, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 84”, 2020



UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION - OPENING MARCH 26, 2022

OLGA KORPER GALLERY, TORONTO

Distance fails the clairvoyant eye

Exhibition on view through April 23, 2022

https://mailchi.mp/olgakorpergallery/melanie-authier-at-olga-korper-gallery?e=41c7ace087

Banner of Air, acrylic on canvas, 60” x 72”




AUTHIER NOW REPRESENTED BY OLGA KORPER GALLERY, TORONTO

Authier is pleased to join the Olga Korper Gallery!

https://mailchi.mp/olgakorpergallery/exciting-news

https://www.olgakorpergallery.com/artists/melanie-authier/

photo credit: Julia Martin


THIS SACRED VESSEL : ONLINE GROUP EXHIBITION

ARSENAL CONTEMPORARY NEW YORK, NY

Authier included in virtual group show to celebrate the conclusion of the three part exhibition series.

Dec 10, 2020 - Jan 30, 2021

View the exhibition: https://www.arsenalcontemporary.com/ny/exhib/detail/this-sacred-vessel-online?rq=virtual%20exhibition

Pitted way among the clouds, acrylic on canvas, 53” x 60”, 2020

Pitted way among the clouds, acrylic on canvas, 53” x 60”, 2020




MELANIE AUTHIER: GRISAILLES (2019)

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Curated by Marcie Bronson

Essays by Marcie Bronson and Jonathan Shaughnessy

Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University

Exhibition Dates: December 7, 2013 to March 16, 2014

Visit the Georgia Scherman Projects website to preview the catalogue: http://www.georgiascherman.com/ma-grisailles



ART TORONTO 2020 ART FAIR

GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS

HOSTED BY ARSENAL CONTEMPORARY, TORONTO

*GSP is hosted by Arsenal Contemporary at 45 Ernest Ave, Toronto, ON

Visit the fair’s virtual platform or book a private in-person viewing from October 31 to November 8, 2020

Currently on view: (left to right) The Departure and Return, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 108" (6 x 9 ft), 2020 and Banderole, acrylic on canvas, 32" x 36", 2020

Currently on view: (left to right) The Departure and Return, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 108" (6 x 9 ft), 2020 and Banderole, acrylic on canvas, 32" x 36", 2020



SOLO EXHIBITION, GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS PRESENTS, DIVISION GALLERY, MTL - OPENING FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Architecture of Voids

Exhibition on view through May 9th, 2020

For more information please see: http://www.galeriedivision.com/en/exhib/mtl/2020/melanie-authier-architecture-of-voids

The Architect of Voids, acrylic on canvas, 50” x 60”, 2019-2020

The Architect of Voids, acrylic on canvas, 50” x 60”, 2019-2020



GROUP EXHIBITION - ARSENAL CONTEMPORARY - NEW YORK, NY

OPENING FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Melanie Authier’s painting Psychic’s Knot featured in This Sacred Vessel (pt. 1) group show at Arsenal Contemporary,

New York, NY

On view through March 1, 2020

For more information please see: https://www.arsenalcontemporary.com/ny/exhib

Psychic’s Knot, acrylic on canvas, 56” x 66”, 2019-2020

Psychic’s Knot, acrylic on canvas, 56” x 66”, 2019-2020





ART TORONTO 2019 - TORONTO


Canada’s international contemporary and modern art fair

Collector’s Preview & Opening Night, Thursday, October 24 (evening-ticketed)

General Admission: Friday, October 25 - Sunday, October 27

Recent works on view at the Georgia Scherman Projects booth.

For more information please see https://www.arttoronto.ca/en/home.html

Catch and Release, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 108”, 2019

Catch and Release, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 108”, 2019





FOIRE PAPIER 2019 - MONTREAL


Canadian Contemporary Art Fair

VIP Thursday, April 25 (evening-ticketed)

General Admission: Friday, April 26 - Sunday, April 29

Recent works by Jen Aitken, Hyang Cho and Melanie Authier on view at the Georgia Scherman Projects booth.

For more information please see http://papiermontreal.com/en/visitors/







SOLO EXHIBITION, GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS, TORONTO - OPENING OCTOBER 20, 2018

Amplitude of the Infinite

Opening Saturday, Oct. 20th 2-5pm

Exhibition runs through November 17th, 2018

(left to right) Staggered Acts, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 32”, 2018 and Digger’s Mantra, acrylic on canvas, 28” x 24”, 2018

(left to right) Staggered Acts, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 32”, 2018 and Digger’s Mantra, acrylic on canvas, 28” x 24”, 2018

Georgia Scherman Projects presents Amplitude of the Infinite, the gallery's fourth solo show with artist Melanie Authier.
Melanie Authier’s canvases bring viewers into a caterwaul of form, but also of competing histories. Citing High Modernist Abstraction in both her hard-edge and gestural painting, Authier positions herself at the interstices of a visual contradiction. But other binaries figure in, as well: the synthetic and the organic, the technological and the natural, flatness and depth, the atmospheric and the geological. Dynamisms mingle and co-exist in an exchange that stretches the limits of their allusions. “I believe my work references and, at times, wrestles with the after-burn of painting’s past, art history with a capital ‘A’,” she reflects. “So my preoccupying question is, ‘Where do we go from here?’” With a dialectical approach that roots down into the brush, each work “sets up a problem,” with Authier working through the possibility of irresolution as her response. As such, her paintings churn up art’s freighted histories, with Authier shifting her weight between chaos and control.
In accompaniment to Authier’s seven-gallery touring exhibition Contrarieties and Counterpoints (2016-18), a catalogue essay by Sky Goodden describes the painter as baroque for her conversation between exterior and interior, and for her paintings’ roiling sympathies, elasticities, and their “willing loss of form.” Goodden writes, “She produces romantic gesture, unlikely light, allaying cimmerian weight, and then crashing forms, sinking comment into vortex, erupting color from the deep.”




MUSEE REGIONAL DE RIMOUSKI, RIMOUSKI, QC - OPENING JUNE 17, 2018

Contrarieties & Counterpoints: Recent Paintings by Melanie Authier - Touring Solo Exhibition

On view June 7 - September 23

Artist talk / Exhibition walk-through June 17 at 1pm, official opening at 2pm

The Musee Regional de Rimouski will be the seventh and final stop of Authier's national touring solo exhibition.  This exhibition curated by Robert Enright foregrounds Authier's recent works on canvas as well as works on paper. This tour is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue that includes an introduction by Michelle Gewurtz, extended interview with Robert Enright, and essays by Sky Goodden, Sarah Milroy and Ola Wlusek.

Paper Eye, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72", 2016

Paper Eye, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72", 2016

The full tour schedule is as follows:

Thames Art Gallery                                                             July 15 - September 11, 2016

Ottawa Art Gallery                                                              October 6, 2016 - January 2, 2017

Art Gallery of Guelph                                                          January 19 - April 2, 2017

College Art Galleries, University of Saskatoon                 May 12 - August 19, 2017

Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal                                             October 23 - December 9, 2017

MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax                                                   January 13 - March 4, 2018

Musee Regional de Rimouski                                             June 7 - September 23, 2018

*The artist would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and The City of Ottawa.

 

 

 

BORDER CROSSINGS MAGAZINE: BENJAMIN KLEIN'S REVIEW OF AUTHIER'S EXHIBITION

Read Benjamin Klein's review of Authier's Contrarieties & Counterpoints exhibition at Galerie UQAM in the Crossovers section of the current (March 2018) issue: Border Crossings Magazine: Vol. 37, Num. 1, pg. 112 -11.

Melanie Authier, installation view Contrarieties & Counterpoints, 2017 Galerie de l'UQAM, photo credit: Galerie de l'UQAM

Melanie Authier, installation view Contrarieties & Counterpoints, 2017 Galerie de l'UQAM, photo credit: Galerie de l'UQAM

Melanie Authier, installation view Contrarieties & Counterpoints, 2017 Galerie de l'UQAM, photo credit: Galerie de l'UQAM

Melanie Authier, installation view Contrarieties & Counterpoints, 2017 Galerie de l'UQAM, photo credit: Galerie de l'UQAM

 

OTTAWA ART GALLERY -INAUGURAL GROUP EXHIBITION -  Àdisòkàmagan/Nous connaître un peu nous mêmes/We’ll all become stories

A SURVEY OF ART OF THE OTTAWA-GATINEAU REGION

April 28 – September 16, 2018

See Authier's work Mound in this inaugural Ottawa Art Gallery group exhibition.

Mound, acrylic on canvas, 167.6 x 142.2 x 5 cm, 2014 - Ottawa Art Gallery Collection

Mound, acrylic on canvas, 167.6 x 142.2 x 5 cm, 2014 - Ottawa Art Gallery Collection

This landmark exhibition surveys art in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. It brings historical art into dialogue with contemporary practices, including a series of newly commissioned works. It is a story told from various perspectives, reflecting the interests and histories of diverse peoples. Located at the confluence of three rivers, this region has long been a site of exchange and interaction. The intertwining concepts of the exhibition’s Anishnābe (Algonquin), French and English titles encapsulate its layered narrative. The Anishnābe concept of Àdisòkàmagan implies that every object tells a story. In bringing these objects together, we emphasize the crucial role of the arts in how we come to know ourselves. Author Gabrielle Roy underscored this with her statement, “nous connaîtrions-nous seulement un peu nous-mêmes sans les arts?" Mapping the overlapping artistic narratives of this region also confirms what Margaret Atwood’s character Nell from “The Entities” observed: “In the end, we’ll all become stories.” The works of art in this exhibition are presented along four thematic lines — Bodies, Bridging, Mapping, and Technologies — which emerged from an exploration of the art and history of this region. Together, they offer a glimpse at how we interpret our world, and ourselves within it. 

Curators: Rebecca Basciano, Jim Burant, Michelle Gewurtz and Catherine Sinclair

 

 

 

OTTAWA ART GALLERY PUBLICATION

Copies of Àdisòkàmagan/Nous connaître un peu nous mêmes/We’ll all become stories is available as of April 28th at the Ottawa Art Gallery bookstore & gift shop. This is a comprehensive visual exploration of the art produced in the Ottawa-Gatineau region going as far back as 6500 years. See Authier's painting alongside Victor Tolgesy sculpture pg. 22-23. 

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CURRENTLY ON VIEW - GROUP EXHIBITION

Arsenal Montreal Collection

Arsenal Montreal

2020 Rue William, Montreal, QC

Authier's painting "Chimera", acrylic on canvas, 72" x 108", 2016 is one of fifteen works currently on view at the Arsenal Montreal.

The exhibition includes Canadian artists (Jon Rafman, Janet Werner, Douglas Coupland, Kim Dorland, Jessica Eaton, Shannon Bool) and international artists (Korakrit Arunanondchai, Jayson Musson, Eleanor King, Cory Arcangel).

Authier's painting Chimera, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 108", 2016 is one of fifteen works currently on view at the Arsenal Montreal.

Authier's painting Chimera, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 108", 2016 is one of fifteen works currently on view at the Arsenal Montreal.

 

AUTHIER'S PAINTING INCLUDED IN PRESTIGIOUS CANADA HOUSE ART COLLECTION, LONDON, UK


Authier's painting Hybrid is now housed in the Sir Wilfred Laurier room on the 3rd floor of Canada House in London, England.  The official opening of the newly refurbished Canadian Embassy took place on February 19th, 2015 at which time the artist met Her Royal Majesty, the Queen.  To view the Canada House art collection please click on the following link: www.canadahousecollection.co.uk

Hybrid, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72", 2014

Hybrid, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72", 2014