Joani Tremblay
“The Space in Between”
9 June – 14 July, 2018
3044
Dundas St. W.
Dundas St. W.
Toronto, ON M6P 1Z3
The Shape of a Walk, 2018, Oil on Belgian linen, 36
x 32 inches
A Room of One’s Own, 2018, Oil on Belgian linen, 36
x 32 inches
x 32 inches
Installation view
Installation view
The Path Out of the Garden, 2018, Oil on Belgian linen, 36
x 32 inches
Paris, a Botanizing on the
Asphalt, 2018, Oil on
Belgian linen, 48 x 42 inches
Asphalt, 2018, Oil on
Belgian linen, 48 x 42 inches
Installation view
The Path Out of the Garden, Oil on Belgian linen, 36 x 32
inches
inches
Past the End of the Road 2, Oil on Belgian linen, 18 x 12
inches
inches
Past the End of the Road 1, Oil on Belgian linen, 18 x 12
inches
inches
Installation view
Installation view
All
images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Zalucky Contemporary. Photo
credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Zalucky Contemporary. Photo
credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
Death Valley
National Park
A grey sky in Paris
Majesty palms
John Constable’s Cloud Study ca. 1822
What do these things have in common? They have
all made appearances, like a cast of characters, in the paintings of Joani
Tremblay. The Montreal-based artist culls images from sources as varied as old
master paintings, digital stock photos of southwest landscapes, and even
personal photos to populate her hybrid landscapes.
all made appearances, like a cast of characters, in the paintings of Joani
Tremblay. The Montreal-based artist culls images from sources as varied as old
master paintings, digital stock photos of southwest landscapes, and even
personal photos to populate her hybrid landscapes.
Working first as a collage artist, Tremblay
digitally crops, adjusts, and reassembles source imagery until, as she puts it,
“I find this feeling of a place I was searching for”. Once a working blueprint
or study is rendered, she turns to the canvas and relays through paint visions of landscapes
that blur the boundary between reality and her own imagination. In “A Room of
One’s Own”, a desert terrain leading up to a mountain range is truncated by a
gathering of house plants in the foreground that appear oddly out-of-place.
Slightly more bewildering is the arching rock formation, absent of texture its
abstraction bears a likeness to the New Mexico work of Georgia O’Keefe.
digitally crops, adjusts, and reassembles source imagery until, as she puts it,
“I find this feeling of a place I was searching for”. Once a working blueprint
or study is rendered, she turns to the canvas and relays through paint visions of landscapes
that blur the boundary between reality and her own imagination. In “A Room of
One’s Own”, a desert terrain leading up to a mountain range is truncated by a
gathering of house plants in the foreground that appear oddly out-of-place.
Slightly more bewildering is the arching rock formation, absent of texture its
abstraction bears a likeness to the New Mexico work of Georgia O’Keefe.
The loose spatial logic in Tremblay’s work is
like a collection of travel memories that have become intertwined over time –
we can retrace their contours with our mind, but never with our footsteps.
like a collection of travel memories that have become intertwined over time –
we can retrace their contours with our mind, but never with our footsteps.
Joani
Tremblay is a Montreal-based artist who received an MFA from Concordia University (2017) and
was the recipient of the Vladimir J. Elgart Graduate Scholarship and the Quebec
Master Research Fellowship (FRQSC). Tremblay’s work has been shown in Los Angeles
(Kantor LA), New York City (NADA NY), Stockholm
(Pony Sugar), Romania
(Bucharest Art Week), Mexico City (Material Art Fair), Tokyo
(3331 Arts Chiyoda), Montreal (Parisian Laundry) and Edmonton (Latitude 53). In
2017 she was a finalist for the RBC Painting Competition, which included a
group presentation at the National Gallery of Canada. She has participated in
residencies in Los Angeles, Berlin and Tokyo, and has an upcoming residency at
The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation in New York in January
2019. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, the most recent of
which comes from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2018). She operates the
artist project space Projet Pangée with Julie Côté in Montreal.
Tremblay is a Montreal-based artist who received an MFA from Concordia University (2017) and
was the recipient of the Vladimir J. Elgart Graduate Scholarship and the Quebec
Master Research Fellowship (FRQSC). Tremblay’s work has been shown in Los Angeles
(Kantor LA), New York City (NADA NY), Stockholm
(Pony Sugar), Romania
(Bucharest Art Week), Mexico City (Material Art Fair), Tokyo
(3331 Arts Chiyoda), Montreal (Parisian Laundry) and Edmonton (Latitude 53). In
2017 she was a finalist for the RBC Painting Competition, which included a
group presentation at the National Gallery of Canada. She has participated in
residencies in Los Angeles, Berlin and Tokyo, and has an upcoming residency at
The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation in New York in January
2019. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, the most recent of
which comes from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2018). She operates the
artist project space Projet Pangée with Julie Côté in Montreal.
Her work will appear in the group
exhibition Real Shapes curated by
Aaron Mulligan at Dateline Gallery in Denver from June 15 – July 22, 2018.