McBride contemporain
372 Ste-Catherine Ouest, studio 414 H3B 1A2 Montreal, QC, Canada

Veuillez noter que l'espace de la galerie sera temporairement fermé pour réparations jusqu'à notre prochaine exposition, ouverture le 13 mai. Nous sommes toujours disponibles virtuellement. À bientôt! * * * * Please note that the gallery space will be temporarily closed for repairs until our next exhibition, opening on May 13th. We are still operating virtually. See you soon!... Image: "A time to remain, a time to go away" 2019 Oil on linen / huile sur lin 21" x 31" (53cm x 79cm) Sylvie Bouchard

In this video, artists Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane discuss the collaborative works from their exhibition, SHAMBLING MOUND. (English with french subtitles)

In this video, artist Lorraine Simms talks about her drawing process and her research at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Featured are a number of her original drawings and a look into the museum collections. (English) The artist wishes to thank: Researchers at the AMNH: Ross MacPhee, Eleanor Hoeger, Sara Ketelsen, Marisa Surovy ... Design and technical assistance: Sara Morley (Postimage) Still photography: Paul Litherland, Michael Smith

Thank you Ossie Michelin for this wonderful feature on Bea Parsons!

Wandering Fortress: Exhibition Tour with Rebecca Munce

McBride Contemporain is delighted to present Rebecca Munce’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Wandering Fortress. Comprising all new ceramic sculptures and drawings, this body of work enlarges and deepens the artist’s world of symbols and pictographs, hybridized mythopoetic fictions, and private world of intensely imagined fantasy. An expanding sense of the serious spiritual potentiality of her work informs this show, in which she manages and incorporates the grotesque h...umour and campy playfulness of her previous production, adding a powerful sense of menacing wonderment to the mix. Munce creates glyphs and icon-like scenes, corralling myths and legends, casting new artistic spells with them. The artist arrives at the unique atmosphere her work generates by a combination of techniques that approach fabrication and finish via both skilled, sophisticated, and cruder, de-skilled avenues. This process mirrors and augments the nature or her imagery, which juxtaposes the thoughtfully researched and clearly adult themes that are present, with childlike passages and naive and bad stylistic tropes, resulting in a challenging and oddly beautiful experience. She allows for both a visual and emotional rawness to remain, without entirely editing it out or covering it up, in both the drawings and sculptures. In Wandering Fortress, which as a phrase is a kind of suggestively absurd and yet magical formulation in itself, Munce has achieved a strong new coherence in her art, focusing the influences and ideas she has worked with for years into something rich and strange. *Please note that the gallery is open by appointment.*

McBride Contemporain is delighted to to be participating in Art Toronto online. Discover our artists, from this October 28th to November 8th! Barry Allikas Bea Parsons Stephen Schofield ... Lorraine Simms Andrea Szilasi See more

CHUTES CHROMATIQUES 8/10/2020 7/11/2020 McBride Contemporain is delighted to present Chutes chromatiques, a duo exhibition featuring new paintings by David Blatherwick and Frédérique Ulman-Gagné. Blatherwick and Ulman-Gagné are both artists who come out of the deep tradition of lyrical abstraction, although each has compounded and rethought the basic structure of their influences and approaches by long-standing studio and exhibition experimentation. Installation approaches ...have often been an important part of how both of these artists have enriched their practice of abstract painting, and each has produced multiple bodies of work with different aesthetics and expressive modes. They also share another primary element of painting in common as a driving artistic force: colour. They are both powerful, exploratory colourists committed to the deployment of rich and resonant chroma in their work. Each has used colour through different pictorial strategies over the course of their careers, and the paintings chosen for this exhibition display the range and impact of their substantial abilities, clearly and boldly. Often using more intense colours in a subtle manner, and quieter hues at times as the main chromatic vehicles of a painting, these works, by both Blatherwick and Ulman-Gagné, offer something different, beautifully odd, and uniquely manifested to the viewer. * Please note that the gallery is open by appointment until October 28th. *