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 Mus�e d’art contemporain de Montr�al, le Mus�e des beaux-arts de Montr�al, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Rideau Hall, and la Citadelle de Qu�bec.

Le peintre montr�alais Michael Smith est renomm� pour sa touche fluide et ses emp�tements, ainsi que pour sa capacit� � atteindre un �quilibre riche en po�sie entre la repr�sentation et l’abstraction. Puisant son inspiration tant dans l’histoire de l’art que dans les �v�nements du pass� ou d’aujourd’hui, il utilise une multitude de sources pour cr�er ses marines et ses paysages agit�s. The Fountain of Indolence de J.M.W. Turner, les repr�sentations d’exp�ditions de George Chambers dans l’Arctique au XIXe si�cle ou encore les abstractions � la spatule de Jean Paul Riopelle sont autant d’œuvres qui fa�onnent continuellement sa compr�hension de la peinture de paysage, alors que les projets ancr�s dans l’histoire repoussent les limites des th�mes qu’il aborde.

Cette grande r�trospective t�moigne de la capacit� de Michael Smith � marier paysage et abstraction pour cr�er des espaces fictifs qui d�montrent l’incidence d’une exp�rience sur notre fa�on d’appr�hender le monde. En superposant la marine et le paysage, le familier et l’inconnu, Smith exprime (comme il l’explique lui-m�me) � la f�brilit� m�l�e d’anxi�t� que l’on �prouve devant un paysage qui, bien que parfois bucolique, est cribl� d’ombres �.

Le catalogue Michael Smith : mer mouvante est publi� � l’occasion d’une exposition d’envergure organis�e par le Mus�e des beaux-arts Beaverbrook. Il comporte cinquante reproductions grand format, un texte sur le parcours artistique de Smith sign� 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 Mus�e d’art contemporain et du Mus�e des beaux-arts de Montr�al, du Mus�e des beaux-arts Beaverbrook (Fredericton), de Rideau Hall (Ottawa) et de la Citadelle de Qu�bec.

About the Authors

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 retrait�, John Leroux est responsable des collections et des expositions au Mus�e des beaux-arts Beaverbrook. Il a �crit ou dirig� dix-sept ouvrages et collabor� � de nombreux autres. Parmi ses plus r�centes publications, mentionnons Peter Powning, Une r�trospective et Wabanaki Moderne : L’h�ritage artistique des Micmac Indian Craftsmen des ann�es 1960 qu’il a r�dig� 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, laur�ate du Prix du Gouverneur g�n�ral pour les arts visuels et m�diatiques pour sa contribution exceptionnelle, est une critique d’art, journaliste et conservatrice ind�pendante de renomm�e nationale. �tablie � Calgary, elle a �t� critique d’art au Calgary Herald pendant 30 ans, ainsi que r�dactrice en chef du magazine Canadian Art, pour lequel elle �crivait r�guli�rement. Elle collabore r�guli�rement au magazine Border Crossings et a r�dig� des essais pour une soixantaine de catalogues et livres publi�s par des galeries d’art publiques et des mus�es.

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