Michael Smith : Sea of Change Mer Mouvante
John Leroux
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Add to basketNeuware - Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery from May 25-October 27, 2024.
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Montreal-based painter Michael Smith is known for his fluid and impasto surfaces as well as his ability to strike a poetic balance between representation and abstraction. Inspired by art history as well as historic and current events, Smith pulls from various sources to create his energetic landscapes and seascapes. J.M.W. Turner’s The Fountain of Indolence, George Chambers’s depictions of 19th-century Arctic expeditions, and Jean Paul Riopelle’s palette knife abstractions continually shape Smith’s understanding of landscape painting, while historically focused projects push the boundaries of his subject matter.
This major retrospective of Michael Smith’s paintings demonstrates his ability to mix landscape with abstraction, creating fictional spaces that show how experience impacts the way we view the world. Layering landscapes and seascapes, the familiar with the unfamiliar, Smith’s paintings convey (as Smith writes), “a mix of excitement and anxiety of a land, [that] although at times bucolic, is riddled with shadows.”
Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Michael Smith: Sea of Change features 50 large-scale reproductions, an essay on Smith’s trajectory as an artist by critic-curator Nancy Tousley, and an interview with the artist by John Leroux.
Michael Smith’s work is included in numerous public collections, including those of le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Rideau Hall, and la Citadelle de Québec.
Le peintre montréalais Michael Smith est renommé pour sa touche fluide et ses empâtements, ainsi que pour sa capacité à atteindre un équilibre riche en poésie entre la représentation et l’abstraction. Puisant son inspiration tant dans l’histoire de l’art que dans les événements du passé ou d’aujourd’hui, il utilise une multitude de sources pour créer ses marines et ses paysages agités. The Fountain of Indolence de J.M.W. Turner, les représentations d’expéditions de George Chambers dans l’Arctique au XIXe siècle ou encore les abstractions à la spatule de Jean Paul Riopelle sont autant d’œuvres qui façonnent continuellement sa compréhension de la peinture de paysage, alors que les projets ancrés dans l’histoire repoussent les limites des thèmes qu’il aborde.
Cette grande rétrospective témoigne de la capacité de Michael Smith à marier paysage et abstraction pour créer des espaces fictifs qui démontrent l’incidence d’une expérience sur notre façon d’appréhender le monde. En superposant la marine et le paysage, le familier et l’inconnu, Smith exprime (comme il l’explique lui-même) « la fébrilité mêlée d’anxiété que l’on éprouve devant un paysage qui, bien que parfois bucolique, est criblé d’ombres ».
Le catalogue Michael Smith : mer mouvante est publié à l’occasion d’une exposition d’envergure organisée par le Musée des beaux-arts Beaverbrook. Il comporte cinquante reproductions grand format, un texte sur le parcours artistique de Smith signé par la critique et commissaire d’exposition Nancy Tousley ainsi qu’une entrevue de John Leroux avec l’artiste.
Des œuvres de Michael Smith font partie de nombreuses collections publiques, notamment celles du Musée d’art contemporain et du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, du Musée des beaux-arts Beaverbrook (Fredericton), de Rideau Hall (Ottawa) et de la Citadelle de Québec.
John Leroux, an art historian, teacher, and retired architect, is the manager of collections and exhibitions at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. He has authored or edited seventeen books and contributed to many others. His most recent publications include Peter Powning: A Retrospective and the award-winning Wabanaki Modern: The Artistic Legacy of the 1960s “Micmac Indian Craftsmen,” which he co-authored with Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
Historien de l’art, professeur et architecte retraité, John Leroux est responsable des collections et des expositions au Musée des beaux-arts Beaverbrook. Il a écrit ou dirigé dix-sept ouvrages et collaboré à de nombreux autres. Parmi ses plus récentes publications, mentionnons Peter Powning, Une rétrospective et Wabanaki Moderne : L’héritage artistique des Micmac Indian Craftsmen des années 1960 qu’il a rédigé avec Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
Nancy Tousley, recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts for outstanding contribution, is a nationally known senior art critic, arts journalist, and independent curator. Based in Calgary, she was the art critic of the Calgary Herald for thirty years, as well as a contributing editor to Canadian Art magazine, for which she wrote regularly. She contributes regularly to Border Crossings magazine and has written essays for more than sixty public art gallery and museum catalogues and books.
Nancy Tousley, lauréate du Prix du Gouverneur général pour les arts visuels et médiatiques pour sa contribution exceptionnelle, est une critique d’art, journaliste et conservatrice indépendante de renommée nationale. Établie à Calgary, elle a été critique d’art au Calgary Herald pendant 30 ans, ainsi que rédactrice en chef du magazine Canadian Art, pour lequel elle écrivait régulièrement. Elle collabore régulièrement au magazine Border Crossings et a rédigé des essais pour une soixantaine de catalogues et livres publiés par des galeries d’art publiques et des musées.
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