Mercurial Season

February 1 – March 15, 2025

Opening reception: Saturday February 1st, from 2-5pm

Olga Korper Gallery is pleased to present a new body of work by celebrated Montreal-based painter, Melanie Authier. 

For more information: https://www.olgakorpergallery.com/exhibitions/mercurial-season/

Olga Korper Gallery is presenting works by Melanie Authier, Sandra Brewster and Katherine Takpannie as part of Northern Exposure, a 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

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

Recent works on view at Olga Korper Gallery, Booth AM137

*VIP ticketed event Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023

Recent work on view at Olga Korper Gallery, booth A36

Work available at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, booth C14

*VIP ticketed event Thursday night Oct. 26, 2023

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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.

Recent work on view at Olga Korper Gallery.

*VIP ticketed event Thursday night Oct. 27, 2022

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

Olga Korper Gallery presents Distance fails the clairvoyant eye an exhibition of new paintings by Melanie Authier.

Exhibition on view: March 26 - April 23, 2022

New work featured at the Olga Korper Gallery online booth.

Nov 30 - Dec 5, 2021

https://hookart.com/art-miami-2021/olga-korper

Canada’s international contemporary and modern art fair.

In-Person: Oct 29 - 31, 2021

Online: Oct 29 - Nov 7, 2021

Authier recent work on view - Olga Korper Gallery booth.

This Sacred Vessel: Online

A virtual group show to celebrate the conclusion of the three part exhibition series.

Arsenal Contemporary

Dec 10, 2020 - Jan 30, 2021

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

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/

VIP Opening: Thurs. April 25

Open to the public: April 26-29

See Authier's new works at the Georgia Scherman Projects booth B7

To buy tickets and plan your visit, please see the following link: https://www.arttoronto.ca/en/home.html

Opening: Saturday, Oct. 20th 2-5pm

Exhibition dates: October 20th - November 17th, 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.”

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

A SURVEY OF ART OF THE OTTAWA-GATINEAU REGION

April 28 – September 16, 2018

We'll All Become Stories:

"Thirty years since our founding, and with the impending opening of our new expanded home, the OAG will mark and celebrate this important juncture by drawing together a seminal collection of art to generate the most extensive and multilayered exploration of the region’s art history and contemporary production to date." — Alexandra Badzak, Director and CEO

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

Opening: January 13, 2018 2 - 4pm

Exhibition on view from January 13 - March 4, 2018

Join us for the opening of Contrarieties & Counterpoints: Recent Paintings by

Melanie Authier. Mount Saint-Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax, NS) is the sixth

stop on Authier's national touring solo exhibition. This exhibition is curated by Robert

Enright and foregrounds Authier's recent canvases 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.   

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, Saskatoon                                 May 13 - August 11, 2017

Galerie de I’UQAM, Montreal                                       October 23 - December 16, 2017

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

Musee Regional de Rimouski                                       April 2018

Founded in 2000, Art Toronto is Canada’s International Contemporary and Modern Art

Fair, held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in the city’s downtown core.

Providing unique access to the Canadian art market, the fair is one of the most

important annual art events in Canada. Now in its 18th year, Art Toronto presents

important artwork from leading Canadian and international galleries combined with

curated projects, an extensive VIP Program, top-tier cultural offerings throughout the

city and PLATFORM, an engaging series of lectures and panel discussions from

prominent art world figures.

DATES AND HOURS

Friday, October 27: 12 PM – 8 PM

Saturday, October 28: 12 PM – 8 PM

Sunday, October 29: 12 PM – 6 PM

Monday, October 30: 12 PM – 6 PM

Opening Night Preview Party  

Thursday, October 26, 2017: 6:30 PM – 10 PM

A benefit for the Art Gallery of Ontario