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SOLO EXHIBITION
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
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.
https://www.olgakorpergallery.com/exhibitions/mercurial-season/
Cosmic Decadence, acrylic on canvas, 60” x 72”, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITION
Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
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
Olga Korper Gallery is presenting works by Melanie Authier, Sandra Brewster and Katherine Takpannie as part of Northern Exposure, an initiative of the Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles, highlighting Canadian contemporary art galleries. Participating Galleries: Blouin Division, Bradley Ertaskiran, Feheley Fine Arts, Franz Kaka, Olga Korper Gallery, Pangée, Patel Brown, and Stephen Bulger Gallery.
New Alchemy, acrylic on canvas, 48” x 36”, 2023
GROUP EXHIBITION, OLGA KORPER GALLERY, TORONTO
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
https://www.olgakorpergallery.com/exhibitions/winter-group-exhibition/
Gulleys and Gambits, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 108”, 2021
ART MIAMI 2023
Recent works on view at Olga Korper Gallery - Booth AM137
VIP Opening Night, Tuesday, Dec. 5 (ticketed event)
General Admission: Wednesday, Dec. 6 - Sunday, Dec. 10
For more information please see https://www.artmiami.com/
Leviathan’s Wake, acrylic on canvas, 54” x 46”, 2023
LA NAPOULE ARTIST RESIDENCY, LA NAPOULE, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 2023
Authier is one of ten participants in the month long artist-in-residence program at Château de la Napoule in the South of France.
The Canadian Artists at La Napoule residency program is graciously funded by the La Napoule Art Foundation and Fondation David R. Graham.
ART TORONTO 2023 - ART FAIR
Canada’s international contemporary and modern art fair
Recent works on view at Olga Korper Gallery - Booth A36
Works available at Andrew Rafacz Gallery - Booth C14
Collector’s Preview & VIP Opening Night, Thursday, October 26 (ticketed event)
General Admission: Friday, October 27 - Sunday, October 29
For more information please see https://www.arttoronto.ca/en/home.html
Venture Myth, acrylic on canvas, 56" x 66", 2023
REVIEW IN THE CHICAGO READER, CHICAGO
Contrasts and connections: “Friendship’s Death” is alive with sensuous forms and pleasurable color by Alan Pocaro
Phantom Season, acrylic on canvas, 50” x 60”, 2022
REVIEW IN NEWCITY ART, CHICAGO
Freedom in Abstraction: A Review of “Friendship’s Death” at Andrew Rafacz by Annette Lepique
Museum of the Wind, acrylic on canvas, 41” x 36”, 2023
GROUP EXHIBITION - ANDREW RAFACZ GALLERY - CHICAGO, IL
Friendship’s Death
Featuring works by Melanie Authier, Leslie Baum, Judy Dolnick, Magalie Guérin, Melissa Leandro
OPENING FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2023
5 - 8pm
On view through Saturday, July 15, 2023
For more information please see: https://andrewrafacz.com/exhibitions/group-exhibition/
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.
The title of the exhibition, Friendship’s Death, is inspired by the 1987 film of the same name, in which a robot from the distant galaxy of Procylon was sent to Earth as an omen and oracle of high celestial intelligence. Her mission is to examine the human condition and offer insight into the inevitabilities of the future. At the conclusion of the film, she leaves only a recorded message containing a five-minute sequence of abstract visuals—a diary of her experience, which the audience is left to decode.
In this exhibition we are invited to similarly decode each artist's respective visual language, connecting to the ways in which they communicate complex ideas through abstraction. This exhibition hopes to operate as a sojourn to another place, creating moments for the viewer to move through a wide bandwidth of geographical time and space, by way of a select group of multigenerational artists, connected by their investigation of shape and color, and the impossible object.
Moon Rattler, acrylic on canvas, 52” x 60”, 2023
ART TORONTO 2022 - ART FAIR
Canada’s international contemporary and modern art fair
Collector’s Preview & Opening Night, Thursday, October 27 (evening-ticketed)
General Admission: Friday, October 28 - Sunday, October 30
Recent works on view at Olga Korper Gallery - Booth A05 and in the Art Toronto VIP lounge.
For more information please see https://www.arttoronto.ca/en/home.html
Art Toronto VIP Lounge:
(Left to Right) Shadow Boxer, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 108”, Exoskeleton, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 84”, Through the wild eye, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 108”
SPLASH 2022 - ART AUCTION
Authier’s work featured in the Splash 2022 40th Anniversary Live Auction Event.
Online bidding is now open. Live Auction event Saturday, October 22, 2022 - 6pm PT / 9pm ET
To view the Splash Art 2022 Collection and place a bid, please visit www.SplashArtAuction.com.
Cowgirl Melee, acrylic on canvas, 43” x 36”, 2018
FOIRE PAPIER 2022 - MONTREAL
Authier’s “Perch”, watercolour & ink on paper, 2013 will be on view as part of the Collection Loto-Quebec, booth/kiosque P02.
Papier - Canadian Contemporary Art Fair
VIP Thursday, August 25 (evening-ticketed)
General Admission: Friday, August 26 - Sunday, August 29
For more information please see http://papiermontreal.com/en/visitors/
Collection Loto-Quebec, Papier 2022
PAINTING ACQUIRED BY ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON - PERMANENT COLLECTION
Authier's painting Harlequin is currently hanging in the permanent collection galleries at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Harlequin, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 84”, 2020
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION - OPENING MARCH 26, 2022
OLGA KORPER GALLERY, TORONTO
Distance fails the clairvoyant eye
Exhibition on view through April 23, 2022
https://mailchi.mp/olgakorpergallery/melanie-authier-at-olga-korper-gallery?e=41c7ace087
Banner of Air, acrylic on canvas, 60” x 72”
AUTHIER NOW REPRESENTED BY OLGA KORPER GALLERY, TORONTO
Authier is pleased to join the Olga Korper Gallery!
photo credit: Julia Martin
THIS SACRED VESSEL : ONLINE GROUP EXHIBITION
ARSENAL CONTEMPORARY NEW YORK, NY
Authier included in virtual group show to celebrate the conclusion of the three part exhibition series.
Dec 10, 2020 - Jan 30, 2021
View the exhibition: https://www.arsenalcontemporary.com/ny/exhib/detail/this-sacred-vessel-online?rq=virtual%20exhibition
Pitted way among the clouds, acrylic on canvas, 53” x 60”, 2020
MELANIE AUTHIER: GRISAILLES (2019)
Curated by Marcie Bronson
Essays by Marcie Bronson and Jonathan Shaughnessy
Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University
Exhibition Dates: December 7, 2013 to March 16, 2014
Visit the Georgia Scherman Projects website to preview the catalogue: http://www.georgiascherman.com/ma-grisailles
ART TORONTO 2020 ART FAIR
GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS
HOSTED BY ARSENAL CONTEMPORARY, TORONTO
*GSP is hosted by Arsenal Contemporary at 45 Ernest Ave, Toronto, ON
Visit the fair’s virtual platform or book a private in-person viewing from October 31 to November 8, 2020
Currently on view: (left to right) The Departure and Return, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 108" (6 x 9 ft), 2020 and Banderole, acrylic on canvas, 32" x 36", 2020
SOLO EXHIBITION, GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS PRESENTS, DIVISION GALLERY, MTL - OPENING FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Architecture of Voids
Exhibition on view through May 9th, 2020
For more information please see: http://www.galeriedivision.com/en/exhib/mtl/2020/melanie-authier-architecture-of-voids
The Architect of Voids, acrylic on canvas, 50” x 60”, 2019-2020
GROUP EXHIBITION - ARSENAL CONTEMPORARY - NEW YORK, NY
OPENING FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Melanie Authier’s painting Psychic’s Knot featured in This Sacred Vessel (pt. 1) group show at Arsenal Contemporary,
New York, NY
On view through March 1, 2020
For more information please see: https://www.arsenalcontemporary.com/ny/exhib
Psychic’s Knot, acrylic on canvas, 56” x 66”, 2019-2020
ART TORONTO 2019 - TORONTO
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
Catch and Release, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 108”, 2019
FOIRE PAPIER 2019 - MONTREAL
Canadian Contemporary Art Fair
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/
SOLO EXHIBITION, GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS, TORONTO - OPENING OCTOBER 20, 2018
Amplitude of the Infinite
Opening Saturday, Oct. 20th 2-5pm
Exhibition runs through November 17th, 2018
(left to right) Staggered Acts, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 32”, 2018 and Digger’s Mantra, acrylic on canvas, 28” x 24”, 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.”
MUSEE REGIONAL DE RIMOUSKI, RIMOUSKI, QC - OPENING JUNE 17, 2018
Contrarieties & Counterpoints: Recent Paintings by Melanie Authier - Touring Solo Exhibition
On view June 7 - September 23
Artist talk / Exhibition walk-through June 17 at 1pm, official opening at 2pm
The Musee Regional de Rimouski will be the seventh and final stop of Authier's national touring solo exhibition. This exhibition curated by Robert Enright foregrounds Authier's recent works on canvas 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.
Paper Eye, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72", 2016
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, University of Saskatoon May 12 - August 19, 2017
Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal October 23 - December 9, 2017
MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax January 13 - March 4, 2018
Musee Regional de Rimouski June 7 - September 23, 2018
*The artist would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and The City of Ottawa.
BORDER CROSSINGS MAGAZINE: BENJAMIN KLEIN'S REVIEW OF AUTHIER'S EXHIBITION
Read Benjamin Klein's review of Authier's Contrarieties & Counterpoints exhibition at Galerie UQAM in the Crossovers section of the current (March 2018) issue: Border Crossings Magazine: Vol. 37, Num. 1, pg. 112 -11.
Melanie Authier, installation view Contrarieties & Counterpoints, 2017 Galerie de l'UQAM, photo credit: Galerie de l'UQAM
Melanie Authier, installation view Contrarieties & Counterpoints, 2017 Galerie de l'UQAM, photo credit: Galerie de l'UQAM
OTTAWA ART GALLERY -INAUGURAL GROUP EXHIBITION - Àdisòkàmagan/Nous connaître un peu nous mêmes/We’ll all become stories
A SURVEY OF ART OF THE OTTAWA-GATINEAU REGION
April 28 – September 16, 2018
See Authier's work Mound in this inaugural Ottawa Art Gallery group exhibition.
Mound, acrylic on canvas, 167.6 x 142.2 x 5 cm, 2014 - Ottawa Art Gallery Collection
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
OTTAWA ART GALLERY PUBLICATION
Copies of Àdisòkàmagan/Nous connaître un peu nous mêmes/We’ll all become stories is available as of April 28th at the Ottawa Art Gallery bookstore & gift shop. This is a comprehensive visual exploration of the art produced in the Ottawa-Gatineau region going as far back as 6500 years. See Authier's painting alongside Victor Tolgesy sculpture pg. 22-23.
CURRENTLY ON VIEW - GROUP EXHIBITION
Arsenal Montreal Collection
Arsenal Montreal
2020 Rue William, Montreal, QC
Authier's painting "Chimera", acrylic on canvas, 72" x 108", 2016 is one of fifteen works currently on view at the Arsenal Montreal.
The exhibition includes Canadian artists (Jon Rafman, Janet Werner, Douglas Coupland, Kim Dorland, Jessica Eaton, Shannon Bool) and international artists (Korakrit Arunanondchai, Jayson Musson, Eleanor King, Cory Arcangel).
Authier's painting Chimera, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 108", 2016 is one of fifteen works currently on view at the Arsenal Montreal.
AUTHIER'S PAINTING INCLUDED IN PRESTIGIOUS CANADA HOUSE ART COLLECTION, LONDON, UK
Authier's painting Hybrid is now housed in the Sir Wilfred Laurier room on the 3rd floor of Canada House in London, England. The official opening of the newly refurbished Canadian Embassy took place on February 19th, 2015 at which time the artist met Her Royal Majesty, the Queen. To view the Canada House art collection please click on the following link: www.canadahousecollection.co.uk
Hybrid, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72", 2014